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The Mail & Guardian Online was on Saturday morning interdicted from publishing the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s report into whether there was a policy blacklisting some commentators because of their political views. On Saturday night, M&G lawyers were fighting the interdict in the Johannesburg High Court. It is probably the first time that a major South African online news publisher has been interdicted.
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/ 14 October 2006
South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira, the former world number six and who holds the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournaments played, admitted Saturday that retirement has been hard. The 35-year-old, an Australian Open semifinalist in 1992 and 2003, called it a day on the ATP Tour at the 2004 US Open.
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/ 14 October 2006
Six elderly people were killed in a fire at an old age home in Krugersdorp, the Mogale City municipality said on Saturday. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Moria Old Age Home on Friday night. Its cause was not yet known. ”One person was taken to hospital in a serious condition,” said public safety director Jorrie Jordaan.
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/ 14 October 2006
Wily Brazilian striker Marcos de Jesus proved the match-winner in a 1-0 success story between Wits University’s and Lamontville Golden Arrows at a boisterous Bidvest Stadium on Friday night. De Jesus had the 5 000-strong crowd in raptures after scoring a stunning 25m goal in the 62nd minute.
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/ 14 October 2006
Australia’s cricketers are using the latest fitness techniques to get an edge over England in next month’s Ashes series, reports said on Saturday. The Aussies are looking more muscular and fitter with the help of sports science, including GPS satellite tracking systems and accelerometers to measure players’ physical activity.
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/ 14 October 2006
As the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglians prepared to set out on patrol through central Basra on Friday all the talk was of their boss’s suggestion that they were making the situation worse. General Sir Richard Dannatt’s comments that the British military presence in southern Iraq ”exacerbates the security problems” and that they should get out ”sometime soon” was met with a mix of frustration and quiet agreement
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/ 14 October 2006
The time has come for the Congress of South African Trade Unions to play a much more active role in the fight against crime, its general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday. ”The nature of the capitalist society… [is that] it breeds corruption, criminality, and immorality,” he told a Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) conference in Johannesburg.
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/ 14 October 2006
Belgium, Italy and South Africa will on Monday be selected as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for the 2007/08 period, a spokesperson said on Friday. The three countries will be elected by secret ballot by the 192-member General Assembly to succeed Denmark and Greece and Tanzania respectively.
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/ 14 October 2006
A Texas police officer whose web page on MySpace.com included images of dismembered women has been suspended, the city attorney’s office in Wichita Falls said. Jeremiah Love’s page on the social networking site contained images and statements that could undermine public confidence in the police department and hurt his testimony in criminal cases.
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/ 14 October 2006
The United Nations Security Council expects to impose arms and financial sanctions on North Korea on Saturday for its reported nuclear weapons test, with United States intelligence pointing to confirmation that it took place. In Washington, a preliminary US intelligence analysis has shown radioactivity in air samples collected near a suspected North Korean nuclear test site.