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Former South African opener Gary Kirsten signed a two-year contract to coach India on Tuesday. ”It will be a great honour to coach the game’s most passionately supported team, and I can’t wait to take on what I know will be one of the biggest challenges of my ongoing career in cricket,” Kirsten said from Cape Town.
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North West African National Congress delegates are being threatened and bribed to vote for President Thabo Mbeki at the party’s national conference later this month, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday. Solly Phetoe, North West provincial secretary of Cosatu, said a number of delegates had complained of this.
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The Somali government has frozen aid activities in a south-eastern region most affected by the country’s growing humanitarian crisis, a United Nations spokesperson told reporters on Tuesday. The new restrictions ban all humanitarian flights to the Lower Shabelle region’s airports, World Food Programme spokesperson Peter Smerdon said.
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Thousands of mineworkers took to the streets of central Johannesburg on Tuesday, urging industry bosses to beef up safety in South African mines. This year, there have been more than 200 deaths in the mining industry. Major mining companies said they were badly affected by the one-day strike.
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Stand-in captain Dwayne Bravo hit 45 runs in 24 balls to see the West Indies home after the tourists flirted with danger in their third one-day international in Harare on Tuesday. Bravo’s knock helped the West Indies to take their score to 142-4 in just 27.5 overs, and this has given them a series lead of 2-1 with two to play in the five-match series.
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A senior Cape Town police officer may face disciplinary charges after making conflicting statements on the time of the recent arrest of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni for drunken driving. The step follows reports that police may have bungled the arrest by delaying taking a blood-alcohol sample.
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An armed group demanded that Britain leave Iraq in video footage aired by the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel on Tuesday, which showed one of five Britons seized in May. ”I have been here, now held for 173 days, and I feel we have been forgotten,” a man identifying himself as Jason said in the video.
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday expressed his gratitude to European Union and fellow African leaders for enabling him to see off a bid to have him excluded from an EU-Africa summit. ”The sinister campaign led by Britain to isolate us, including the recent attempts to bar us from attending the EU-Africa summit … continues to disintegrate,” Mugabe said in a State of the Nation address in Parliament.
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Norwegian researchers have discovered a second rare fossil in the Arctic of a pliosaur, a giant reptile described by experts as the ”T rex of the oceans”, the project leader said on Tuesday. ”We think it is a species unknown until now,” said Joern Hurum, of Oslo University’s palaeontology department.
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The first South China tiger cub born in South Africa was shown to the media at the Laohu Valley Reserve in the southern Free State on Tuesday. The cub, not named yet, was born 11 days ago, weighing 1,2kg, and opened his eyes on Monday. The South China tiger is one of the most endangered species in the world.