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/ 6 February 2007
Advertisements appeared in South African newspapers on Tuesday calling on President Thabo Mbeki to get a grip on the alarming crime rate as he prepares for his annual State of the Nation address. The PSG Group, a Cape Town-based financial-service provider, published an open letter in which it urged Mbeki to ”show us you care”.
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/ 6 February 2007
After losing ground over the prior two trading days, the JSE was in positive territory in noon trade on Tuesday as higher commodity prices boosted resources stocks. However, gains were widespread, underpinned by firmer world markets. By 11.58am, the all-share index added 0,59%.
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/ 6 February 2007
The eight men accused of plotting to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea had their case postponed in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday. Defence attorney Margie Victor requested the case be postponed for a day in order to give a response to documents handed to them by the state.
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/ 6 February 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao was due in South Africa on Tuesday to cement ties with Beijing’s key trading partner on the continent and a crucial ally in pushing the interests of the world’s have-nots. He is scheduled to hold talks with counterpart Thabo Mbeki during his two-day visit, sign trade agreements and discuss a raft of bilateral issues.
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/ 6 February 2007
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels will resume an offensive against the government unless Kampala agrees to move faltering peace talks to a new venue outside south Sudan. The Ugandan rebels have said they would not return to talks in Juba after Sudan’s president vowed to ”get rid of the LRA from Sudan”.
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/ 6 February 2007
A British newspaper published transcripts on Tuesday of what it said was a cockpit video recording from a United States warplane at the centre of an inquest into ”friendly fire” in Iraq in which a British soldier was killed. The Sun said the tape revealed the pilots, realising they had hit a British convoy, said ”God dammit” and ”We’re in jail, dude”.
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/ 6 February 2007
A 76-year-old Malay Muslim woman from southern Thailand who got on the wrong bus 25 years ago and ended up living at the other end of the country has been reunited with her family. Unable to speak, read or write Thai, Jaeyaena Beuraheng boarded a bus in Malaysia thinking it was bound for Narathiwat.
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/ 6 February 2007
Lolo Oluchi has painted over the bullet holes in the ceiling of her karaoke bar in Port Harcourt, where gunmen seized seven foreign oil workers last August, but the regulars haven’t come back. Thousands of foreign workers and their families have left Africa’s top oil producer since a faceless new militant group launched unprecedented attacks about a year ago.
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/ 6 February 2007
Zimbabwe has witnessed a spate of unprecedented price increases for most goods and services in the past week, many of which had been raised in anticipation of a devaluation that did not materialise, the media reported on Tuesday. A price survey showed the cost of foodstuffs, alcohol, clothes, rent and furniture, among others, had risen by up to 400% in less than one week.
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/ 6 February 2007
Australia are seeking clarification from the International Cricket Council over the eligibility of injured players for the World Cup after all-rounder Andrew Symonds tore a bicep tendon in his right shoulder on Friday. Symonds underwent surgery on Sunday and is likely to be out of action for at least six weeks, jeopardising his place in the World Cup.