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/ 13 October 2006
Bloemfontein was in an odd mood last Sunday morning. On one side of town, rooftop parties were celebrating the Macufe soccer festival and the green and white colours of Bloemfontein Celtic were in evidence. Elsewhere, it was eerily quiet as the locals began to come to terms with the fact that the Cheetahs had qualified for a home final for the first time in 12 years.
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/ 13 October 2006
Almost a year after the South African Football Foundation was launched with the help of the British government, confusion reigns over the status of this institution. Nobody associated with the project is willing to say what exactly — if anything — it has done since it was enthusiastically established last November.
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/ 13 October 2006
Women in post-conflict societies should play a bigger role in revitalising their countries, researchers of a new study said. Research conducted in the aftermath of three recent conflicts analysed the role of women in peace processes as well as the security of women in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Lebanon.
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/ 13 October 2006
The whole of South Africa, and South African President Thabo Mbeki’s own parliamentary caucus, "is transfixed" by a crisis that has planed value off the rand, propelled shock-waves through investors at home and abroad and all but ground government delivery to a halt — but Mbeki has, with "masterly indifference", replaced his head more deeply into the sand, says Tony Leon.
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/ 13 October 2006
Three of 10 men arrested after a cash heist in central Johannesburg which claimed the life of a 15-month-old baby, will appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday, police said. The men will appear on charges of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery.
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/ 13 October 2006
African-Americans hoping to use DNA to find their roots may have to look harder than previously thought, researchers said on Thursday in a study they said shows Africans are too genetically mixed to make tracing easy. Several companies now offer to help Americans trace their African ancestry using mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to daughter virtually unaltered.
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/ 13 October 2006
Tony van Kralingen, managing director SAB Limited SA, has won the Sunday Times Business Times marketing excellence awards chairman’s award, it was announced at midnight on Thursday. Van Kralingen won the award as ”a first rate marketing professional who now is the executive head of a major quoted company”, according to a statement.
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/ 13 October 2006
Suspected Islamic militants beheaded a Myanmar migrant worker in front of his teenage daughter in the most gruesome of a spate of attacks in Thailand’s troubled south. Several militants burst into the house of the 36-year-old prawn farm worker late Thursday, blindfolded his teenage daughter and shot the man at close range before beheading him, police said.
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/ 13 October 2006
Israel killed nine Palestinians, at least three of them Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, pressing a nearly four-month offensive launched after a soldier was abducted, witnesses said. Hamas’s armed wing responded by firing six make-shift rockets into Israel.
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/ 13 October 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday condemned the 50 basis points hike in the repo rate, saying that the hike would snuff out the glimmer of hope of increasing growth in the manufacturing industry. "This policy will destroy still more jobs and sabotage prospects of halving unemployment and poverty by 2014," Cosatu said in statement.