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Out of sight and mind for almost two decades, inmate number 38699-079 completed his sentence on Sunday an older, frailer figure than the world remembered. Manuel Noriega served out his time at Miami’s Federal Correctional Institution with a gammy leg, his hair dyed and in the uniform of an army which no longer exists, a bogeyman from another era.
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/ 10 September 2007
Police arrested Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and Cape Town mayor Helen Zille on Sunday in connection with a protest she led against drug lords wreaking havoc in Cape Town’s poor districts. DA councillor Grant Pascoe said Zille was arrested after she went to a police station to inquire about the arrest of a religious leader who had participated in the protest.
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Namibian rugby union president Dirk Conradie and his entire executive committee have been barred from attending the World Cup in France, organisers confirmed on Sunday. Conradie has been accused of complicity in the irregular sale of World Cup tickets, a charge he denies.
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/ 10 September 2007
In Lungisile Ntsebeza’s <i>Polokwane Briefing</i> of August 17 he says it is by now widely acknowledged that "land reform … is a dismal failure". The claim of "failure" is a common one, but it often obscures how — and in what setting — policies were made in the first place, argues Deborah James.
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/ 10 September 2007
The new-look Anglo American Corporation was very much on display at the announcement last week of one of two of the biggest black economic empowerment deals in South African mining — and a real advance for black ownership of platinum reserves.
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/ 10 September 2007
Healthcare costs will be taking an increasingly bigger bite out of our pockets each year as medical inflation continues to climb far higher than wage increases. This was the bottom line at a panel discussion held at the Absa Healthcare Consultants’ Seminar last week.
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/ 10 September 2007
Things just keep getting better for Patrice Motsepe. The mining magnate and soccer boss is South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire. But even as he catapults up the wealth stakes, it is unclear just how broad-based one of his key deals are, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.
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/ 10 September 2007
A series of devastating attacks in which armed men loot homes, kill unarmed civilians and burn down villages has pushed an entire population into hiding in remote areas of the north-western Central African Republic. Villagers have fled their homes and taken to the bush, living in the forests to avoid further attacks.
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/ 10 September 2007
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk is having a rough ride after he spent time at a Limpopo outfit that captured young elephants from the wild for elephant-back safaris. Wildlife groups are furious after Van Schalkwyk visited Elephants for Africa Forever, an elephant training outfit.
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/ 10 September 2007
Meet the inland taipan and common taipan — two of the world’s most dangerous snakes. The inland taipan is estimated to be 20 times as venomous as a common cobra. The common taipan has a kill rate second only to the black mamba, nearing 100%. Now imagine being on the same flight as these guys.