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/ 9 November 2006
A man wrestles a woman to the ground along Selby Street in downtown Johannesburg. He picks her up like a screaming baby, carries her behind a pillar and rapes her. On the sixth floor of the Carlton Centre, a team of ”incident analysts” sits before a bank of screens, following the events as they unfold.
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/ 9 November 2006
Hundreds of breasts were freed from their confines on Thursday, Guinness World Records Day, as local celebrities asked women strip off their bras and donate them to form the longest bra chain in the world. South Africa is trying to break a world record for the longest bra chain to raise awareness of breast cancer.
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/ 8 November 2006
The smell of petrol lingering around the Blaauwpan Dam, east of Johannesburg, might remain for days while a layer of fuel on the dam’s surface is causing "catastrophic" environmental hazards, according to conservationists. More than a million litres of aviation fuel is said to have leaked from OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday.
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/ 6 November 2006
Meet Rose … this old bird sure does love her toys! Rose will put that thing just about anywhere you ask her to, and she’ll love it. She gets hornier and hornier with age and is at her sexual peak. Two middle managers of the Johannesburg city council have already met Rose on the internet, it was revealed on Monday.
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/ 1 November 2006
Flying from Johannesburg to Cape Town for less than R200 makes South Africa’s newest low-cost airline, Mango, seem very attractive. But does the airline believe in itself? Mango has registered a list of derogatory variations on its internet domain name, Flymango.com, in an attempt to ward off websites that could be launched by its competitors.
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/ 27 October 2006
Harold Manciya flies across the dance floor, his arms winding in every direction while his legs remain completely still — dead still. Left disabled after a plough fell on his back when he was a child, Manciya has been a paraplegic for 20 years. At 31, he has participated in wheelchair basketball and long-distance walking by wheelchair, and started his own kwaito band.
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/ 25 October 2006
Now you can make money while you look for a job. A new South African social-networking website, <i><a href="http://www.employmint.co.za/" target="_blank" class="standardtext">Employmint.co.za</a></i>, was launched this week and will be turning the recruitment business on its head.
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/ 23 October 2006
In November 2004, after the death of pop icon Brenda Fassie, singer Lebo Mathosa told the Mail & Guardian in an interview: ”You can’t deny death, you can’t fear it. I’m sure God has a better place for us, if you’re a believer.” Two years later, in a twist of fate, 29-year-old Mathosa, like her controversial role model, has moved on to that ”better place”.
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/ 23 October 2006
South African singer Lebo Mathosa (29) died in an accident east of Johannesburg in the early hours on Monday, her manager, Linzy Cowley, said. Mathosa’s driver apparently lost control of the Toyota Prado in which they were travelling on the N3 highway on the East Rand, and Mathosa died at the scene.
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/ 20 October 2006
Helen Zille, Democratic Alliance mayor of Cape Town, was accused by the African National Congress and Independent Democrats of doing a lousy job at delivering local services as about 100 politicians and members of the public protested opposite the city’s Manenberg police station on Friday morning.