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One of the four men arrested in connection with the shoot-out between police and robbers in a cash-in-transit heist in central Johannesburg committed suicide on Thursday, police said. The three other men who were arrested on Wednesday were expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 12 October 2006
Small, medium and micro enterprises in South Africa’s accommodation sector will receive a R170-million cash injection to prepare for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk told a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday: ”For the first time ever non-hotel accommodation … will also be contracted.
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/ 12 October 2006
France’s lower house of Parliament on Thursday backed a Bill that makes it a crime to deny claims that Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War I. Though the Senate or President Jacques Chirac can still block the Bill, Turkey has made clear the move will badly damage relations with France.
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/ 12 October 2006
Opposing views regarding a possible change in the type of governance of the city of Cape Town — the only metro area in the country ruled by parties other than the national ruling African National Congress (ANC) — have the potential to evolve into an intergovernmental dispute, says Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi.
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/ 12 October 2006
South African Herschelle Gibbs revealed on Thursday the names of three former Proteas cricketers involved in a match-fixing scam, said Indian police who now want to question the trio. One of the three was Derek Crookes who toured India with the South African squad in 2000 and played 32 one-day matches making 1 001 runs. Police declined to identify the other two.
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/ 12 October 2006
Twenty-six call centre workers — two of whom are pregnant — were hospitalised after insecticide leaked into the air conditioning during ”routine fumigation work”, Discovery Health said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday at 6pm at the company’s headquarters in Johannesburg. A preliminary investigation indicated that a technical fault was the likely cause of the problem.
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/ 12 October 2006
No evidence has been found of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) blacklisting some commentators and analysts because of their political views, the public broadcaster reported on Thursday. Mpofu said a commission of inquiry had found there was no blanket ban on certain political commentators and analysts.
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/ 12 October 2006
Media will have to cough up R1 000 a seat to report on President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at a South African Communist Party (SACP) dinner at the weekend, the party said on Thursday. Another option for ”media houses” was to obtain a table for 10 at a cost of R10 000 for the event that will also be attended by SACP leader Blade Nzimande.
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/ 12 October 2006
At least 43 Sri Lankan troops were killed and over 220 wounded in a fierce battle with Tamil Tiger rebels in the country’s far north, the military said on Thursday. Another 25 to 30 were missing after Wednesday’s fighting. The flare-up in violence has spurred fears that peace talks due this month may be cancelled.
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/ 12 October 2006
When they buried Rafiq Siam, the traffic stopped and hundreds of armed men, some firing into the air, gathered at the Gaza mosque. Eight men wearing red berets and black combat uniforms lifted his body wrapped in a white shroud and Palestinian flag and carried it inside with as much ceremony as the pressing crowd would allow.