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/ 9 February 2007
Small-scale gold miners in Zimbabwe are scared to name politicians they say are masterminding illegal mining operations because they fear they will be killed, the official Herald newspaper reported on Friday. ”You just cannot afford taking the risk,” Wonder Chanetsa, from the Zimbabwean Gold Miners’ Association, told a parliamentary committee this week.
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/ 9 February 2007
Israeli police forces entered the area around the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and dispersed stone-throwing worshippers with stun grenades at the end of Friday prayers, the police said. Muslim leaders had called for protests over excavations near Islam’s third holiest shrine.
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/ 9 February 2007
It’s the de rigueur stop off for caring foreign dignitaries. It reached a worldwide audience as a backdrop to the British blockbuster The Constant Gardener. Any journalist wanting a quick Africa poverty story can find it there in half an hour. And now at least one travel agency offers tours round Kenya’s Kibera slum, one of Africa’s largest.
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/ 9 February 2007
Chinese leader Hu Jintao on Friday left Mozambique for the Seychelles, the last stop on an African swing marked by Beijing’s largesse and staunch rebuttal of criticism that it was plundering the continent. Hu on Thursday announced a debt waiver, cash grants and increased market access for goods from war-ravaged Mozambique.
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/ 9 February 2007
Tens of thousands of Mozambicans face displacement as waters in a key dam on the Zambezi River reach critical levels, an aid agency warned on Friday. Cahora Bassa Dam on the upper Zambezi is almost full, leading to expectations that the discharge of water will have to be stepped up in the coming days, Oxfam said.
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/ 9 February 2007
The second accused in the murder of KwaZulu-Natal historian David Rattray appeared briefly in the Dundee Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Simphiwe Ndlovu (25) was remanded in custody until February 20 for a pending bail application. The small courtroom was packed with curious locals and media representatives waiting to see the face of the accused for the first time.
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/ 9 February 2007
A 30m dash to the line by veteran lock Paul Tito saw the Wellington Hurricanes snatch victory from the Waikato Chiefs 39-32 right on full time in a Super 14 rugby match on Friday. Both sides were rewarded with bonus points in the high-scoring game with nine tries scored, five to the Hurricanes and four to the Chiefs.
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/ 9 February 2007
Mark Mobius, managing director of Franklin Templeton Investments, said on Friday during a whistle-stop visit to South Africa that the reason for the strong growth seen in China and India was because of a high savings rate, and that this was a key reason for South Africa to improve its savings rate.
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/ 9 February 2007
Would-be robbers blew up an automated teller machine (ATM) in Welkom on Friday morning, but left empty-handed, Free State police said. Residents of Thabong told police of a white Toyota Cressida that had been driving up and down Nkoane Road, where a Standard Bank ATM was located, at about 1.40am.
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/ 9 February 2007
The man found guilty of killing and raping the mother-in-law of celebrity Soli Philander was sentenced to two life terms by the Free State High Court on Friday. The judge told Simon Matshwane that were he to call him (Matshwane) a pig, he would be insulting pigs. ”Even pigs don’t do such things,” he said.