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/ 25 February 2008
An explosion that ripped through a ferromanganese smelter near Durban on Sunday and claimed the lives of five people sparked protests by workers as a Labour Department inquiry into workers’ exposure to poisonous fumes was about to start on Monday morning.
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/ 25 February 2008
Cuba’s national assembly named Raúl Castro as head of state on Sunday night, formally ending 49 years of Fidel Castro’s dominance. The 614-member body accepted the 76-year-old defence minister and constitutionally designated successor as the candidate to take over from his elder brother.
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/ 25 February 2008
An Iraqi militant group posted a video on the internet on Monday that appeared to show the 2004 killing of 12 Nepalese men who worked for a contracting firm in Iraq. In the video, a militant beheaded one of the men with a knife. The rest were shot in the back lying face down in a sandy lot.
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/ 25 February 2008
The in-camera conference African National Congress president Jacob Zuma gave to the Forum of Black Journalists was similar to the off-the-record briefing given to black editors by Bulelani Ngcuka, the former national director of public prosecutions, which Zuma at that time protested as a ”character assassination exercise”, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
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/ 25 February 2008
Under a scorching summer sun, a swarm of 400 furious women engulfed the scruffy electricity office of Banda district in north India. They were all dressed identically in fluorescent pink saris. For more than a fortnight they and their families had had no electricity, plunged into darkness at dusk and stewed in sweat at dawn. But they had all been sent bills demanding payment for power they had never received.
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/ 25 February 2008
The first microbicide to reach the final phase of testing has failed to prevent HIV transmission, researchers announced this week. Testing of the microbicide, Carraguard, was carried out over a three-year period on 6 000 women in South Africa and was completed in March last year.
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/ 25 February 2008
And so the preachers have hit the streets, and the school marm is ringing the bell and clicking her heels. It’s time to get in line.The clarion call sounds across the length and breadth of the land: the youth must be saved. Saved from drink, saved from disease, saved from one another – Hell, saved from themselves.
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/ 25 February 2008
Cuba’s national assembly named Raúl Castro as head of state on Sunday night, formally ending 49 years of Fidel Castro’s dominance. The 614-member body accepted the 76-year-old defence minister and constitutionally designated successor as the candidate to take over from his elder brother.
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/ 25 February 2008
The dust had hardly settled after the ANC’s great Polokwane indaba when some people began toying with the idea that the ANC would put its deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, up as its presidential candidate for the 2009 general election. Lies are being peddled that ANC president Jacob Zuma has been banging tables reprimanding those he perceives to be back-stabbing him, writes Malusi Gigaba.
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/ 24 February 2008
I am a proponent of same-sex marriages and as a Christian minister of religion, I want to make it very clear that the Bible nowhere gives an indication that such marriages should be condemned. Most of the opposition to same-sex marriages could be ascribed to a lack of knowledge of what both marriage and homosexuality mean, writes André Müller.