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/ 30 January 2008
A South African National Defence Force helicopter from Pretoria was expected to deliver food parcels to flood victims in Limpopo on Wednesday, the province’s housing and local government department said. ”Those residents are cut off from the outside world. We can only access them by air,” said a departmental spokesperson.
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/ 30 January 2008
After all 13 people implicated in the Jeppestown massacre had pleaded not guilty to every charge put to them on Wednesday, the trial settled into the task of admitting vast amounts of evidence into the court records. Earlier, the woman and 12 men elected to remain silent on the 23 charges they face collectively.
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/ 30 January 2008
The Pretoria High Court refused bail on Wednesday to one of the accused in the Boeremag treason trial, Kobus Pretorius. Pretorius (34), whose father and brother are on trial with him along with 17 other accused on 42 charges including high treason, terrorism and murder, said he had experienced a religious conversion while in jail.
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/ 30 January 2008
Thirteen people were killed and dozens remain missing after an overloaded barge sank in Central Africa’s Lake Tanganyika overnight on Monday, the maritime inspection service said on Wednesday. The disaster took place about 5km from Kalemie port, on the Democratic Republic of Congo side of the lake.
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/ 30 January 2008
A 27-year-old Durban woman who allegedly set her boyfriend alight and then locked him in a toilet at the weekend is expected to appear at the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for murder, police said. Captain Bongani Khomo said the woman was arrested in Umlazi on Monday afternoon.
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/ 30 January 2008
The Australian Rugby Union’s (ARU) chief executive, John O’Neill, has called for major changes to reinvigorate the game or it will slip into irreversible decline here. Amid falling attendances, ratings, revenues and performances, O’Neill said the ARU is in serious financial trouble.
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/ 30 January 2008
South African ”Bladerunner” Oscar Pistorius vowed in an interview with Italian television on Tuesday to continue his fight to have an Olympic ban overturned. The disabled sprinter, who runs with carbon-fibre blade attachments, wants to be allowed to compete in the normal Olympics as well as the Paralympics.
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/ 30 January 2008
A strong 6,6-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Wednesday, prompting the issuing of a tsunami alert, the meteorology and geophysics office said. The earthquake, which struck at 7.32am GMT was centered 300km north-east of the East Timorese capital Dili, about 23km under the floor of the Banda Sea.
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/ 30 January 2008
Denmark’s national library is to risk re-opening an international political storm by housing the cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked violent convulsions throughout the Islamic world two years ago. The royal library in Copenhagen has declared the drawings to be of historic value.
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/ 30 January 2008
Trade union Solidarity is introducing its own medical fund in a move against what it called "high medical rates", it said on Wednesday. "It’s a non-profit service. We don’t want to make millions out of the sick, but make private healthcare more accessible to the people of South Africa," said Jaco Kleynhans, Solidarity spokesperson.