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/ 6 February 2007
The Afrikaans song, De la Rey, by Bok van Blerk is in danger of being ”hijacked” by right wingers who want to mislead Afrikaans speakers into believing the song is a struggle song that sends out a ”call to arms”, the Department of Arts and Culture warned on Tuesday.
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/ 6 February 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has requested an investigation by the research ethics council following concerns about the health of participants in microbicide clinical trials. In a statement released on Tuesday, Tshabalala-Msimang said she had met with researchers following ”disturbing news” about preliminary results of a study conducted in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 6 February 2007
Zimbabwe will arrest white farmers who failed to meet a weekend deadline to vacate their land for newly resettled black farmers, Zimbabwe media reported on Tuesday. Security Minister Didymus Mutasa was quoted as saying: ”Those that are saying they will defy the law will soon find out that they are not clever at all when the police start doing their job. They will be arrested.”
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/ 6 February 2007
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has ordered a medical specialist to ascertain whether convicted businessman Schabir Shaik’s stay at a Durban hospital is absolutely necessary, media reports said on Tuesday. The media speculated last month that Shaik had spent more than R500Â 000 on his hospital stay.
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/ 6 February 2007
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal prepared on Tuesday for crisis talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending a power struggle that has cost scores of lives. Abbas was the first to arrive in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, followed by Meshaal and then by Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, head of the Hamas-led government.
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/ 6 February 2007
A tip-off to police led to a constable being arrested and about R500Â 000 worth of dagga being seized from a police vehicle on Tuesday, eastern Free State police said. Superintendent Motarafi Ntepe said the Bloemfontein dog unit was tipped off that a police vehicle was about to load and transport dagga in the Ficksburg area.
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/ 6 February 2007
A Japanese man told police he stole a patrol car that had been left idling outside a post office in Gunma, north of Tokyo, because he was too tired to walk home. Police officers had left the vehicle in the car park with the engine running while they investigated a report that a stolen card had been used at the post office, the Mainichi newspaper said on Tuesday.
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/ 6 February 2007
The cost of Cape Town’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium has been slashed by over a billion rand to bring it ”within reach”, the city’s mayor, Helen Zille, said on Tuesday. The reduction from the original R3,7-billion quote to R2,68-billion still leaves a gap of R180-million, she told a media briefing.
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/ 6 February 2007
The state might appeal against former Western Cape premier Peter Marais’s recent acquittal on corruption charges, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. Marais said on Monday his lawyer had told him he had been informed that Scorpions prosecutors had initiated the first step in a possible appeal against his acquittal.
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/ 6 February 2007
English Premier League soccer club Liverpool have agreed to be taken over by United States sports tycoons George Gillett and Tom Hicks for £174-million. Gillett and Hicks, through their Kop Football vehicle, said on Tuesday they would pay £5 000 per Liverpool share and the total value of the deal, including debt, was £219-million.