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A one-year-old baby girl was killed and seven people were wounded in a shoot-out during a cash-in-transit heist in the Johannesburg city centre on Tuesday, police said. Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht, speaking from the scene, said two coin security guards had just collected money when they were approached by between six and eight men.
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South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs was scheduled to fly to New Delhi on Tuesday, hoping to put the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal behind him once and for all. Gibbs, accompanied by his lawyer, will meet police commissioner KK Paul to answer a series of questions about the match-fixing affair, which was unearthed in India in 2000.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Western Cape, already boasting some success in bringing down crime, hopes to better the crime-busting feats of New York mayor Rudi Giuliani. A five-year 40% drop in crime by 2008 ”is a target that can be achievable”, provincial police commissioner Mzandile Petros said in Cape Town on Tuesday.
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/ 10 October 2006
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation eased in September but remained the world’s highest as the Southern African nation grapples with a severe economic crisis critics blame on President Robert Mugabe’s government. Zimbabwe’s soaring inflation is seen as a major stumbling block to pulling the country out of an eight-year recession marked by a jobless rate above 70%.
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/ 10 October 2006
An 80-year-old German motorist obediently following his navigation system ignored a motorway ”closed for construction” sign and crashed his Mercedes into a pile of sand further down the road. ”The driver was following the orders from his navigation system and even though there was a sufficient number of warnings and barricades, he continued his journey into the construction site,” a police spokesperson told Reuters.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Federation of Unions of South Africa called on Tuesday for solidarity with Zimbabwean workers after the viewing of a DVD that showed police beating trade union leaders last month. Members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions were arrested and beaten after an attempted protest march in Harare.
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/ 10 October 2006
Iraqi police found 60 bodies dumped across Baghdad in the 24 hours until Tuesday morning, all apparent victims of sectarian death squads, an Interior Ministry official said. The United States military also said Iraqi and US forces had killed 11 militants, most dressed as Iraqi police officers, in fresh clashes in the southern Shi’ite city of Diwaniya.
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/ 10 October 2006
Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped power company has warned of massive power failures due to a breakdown at the main thermal power station, reports said on Tuesday. All six generators at Hwange Power Station, which has a capacity to generate 590MW of power, have broken down, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported.
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/ 10 October 2006
Zimbabwe on Tuesday shut down its main money transfer agencies handling hard currency, mostly sent home by Zimbabweans abroad, after the state central bank accused them of trading irregularities. The Reserve Bank alleged at least 16 agencies, including Western Union, helped in the diversion of hard currency into the thriving currency black market.
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/ 10 October 2006
China declined on Tuesday to rule out possible United Nations sanctions against North Korea for carrying out a reported nuclear test but said any military action was unimaginable. It said it had no information about widespread speculation that the secretive North might be ready to conduct a second test.