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/ 24 January 2007
The L Word‘s fourth season was partly shot where its characters live, writes Bridget Byrne in West Hollywood.
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/ 23 January 2007
United States President George Bush, politically weaker than ever, is to mount what could be a last-stand defence of his unpopular Iraq strategy on Tuesday in his annual State of the Union speech. Speaking for the first time to a US Congress controlled by opposition Democrats, Bush is also to lay out broad health care, environment and immigration reforms.
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/ 23 January 2007
About 60 Cape Town taxis — described as ”moving time bombs” — are to be scrapped next month, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. Western Cape Taxi Council chairperson Junaid Peters said the vehicles are scheduled to be destroyed on February 10.
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/ 23 January 2007
The Johannesburg metro police will employ 500 officers a year until 2010 to ensure safety in the city during the Soccer World Cup, Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said on Tuesday. They will be deployed on the city’s roads and busy areas. ”In addition to that, more surveillance cameras will be installed to ensure that people are safe.”
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/ 23 January 2007
Expired medicines were given to only one patient at the Johannesburg Hospital, the Gauteng department of health said on Tuesday. ”We checked the records and this is clearly an isolated incident,” said the department’s chief operating officer, Abdul Rahman.
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/ 23 January 2007
Parliament’s correctional services committee is to find out for itself on Thursday how Annanias Mathe escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison late last year. Head of the portfolio committee Dennis Bloem said on Tuesday the visit will not replace an existing probe into the serial offender’s escape from the prison’s maximum-security section in November last year.
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/ 23 January 2007
President Thabo Mbeki and top decision makers in the government gathered for a meeting to discuss the state’s programme action for the year at the Presidential Guesthouse on Tuesday. The reason for the meeting is partly to decide on the contents of Mbeki’s State of the Nation address next month, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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/ 23 January 2007
South African cities due to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup complained on Tuesday of funding shortfalls of millions of rand to build stadiums for the continent’s biggest sporting event. Estimates have swelled due to inflation and exchange-rate fluctuations, officials told a parliamentary sport committee.
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/ 23 January 2007
Alignment to the African National Congress (ANC) will not protect state-funded bodies from scrutiny by the committee charged with reviewing their relevance, its chairperson, Kader Asmal, warned on Tuesday. ”The committee will be objective and non-partisan,” he said, adding that there is not a majority of ANC members on the committee.