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/ 5 December 2007
Police are yet to notify the next-of-kin of a middle-aged woman who jumped to her death from the seventh floor of the Michelangelo Towers on Tuesday. A media report said a note with the words ”I’m tired of life” was found in her room. The general manager at the Michelangelo Towers, Johan Troskie, refused to disclose any information,
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/ 5 December 2007
Technology and entertainment topped Google’s searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the number one slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States. ”iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said Marissa Mayer of Google. ”It didn’t exist.”
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/ 5 December 2007
Nearly two years after the internationally acclaimed author Orhan Pamuk narrowly escaped imprisonment for statements that were thought to ”insult Turkishness”, the publisher of a British writer goes on trial on Wednesday accused of the same charge.
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/ 5 December 2007
Police involved in Tuesday’s arrest of journalists reporting on a car accident in Lenasia should be investigated, the South African National Editor’s Forum (Sanef) said. ”Sanef requests an investigation into the conduct of the police for this unwarranted interference with journalists carrying out their duties,” the forum said.
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/ 5 December 2007
Maintenance prosecutor René Botha quit her job as attorney the day she realised she was helping "the wrong people". Today Botha is one of the most important and successful torchÂbearers for neglected children, women and men in Johannesburg who do not receive the maintenance they are entitled to.
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/ 5 December 2007
Victims of abuse need someone to talk to — ”A listening ear is the best medicine.”
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/ 4 December 2007
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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/ 4 December 2007
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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/ 4 December 2007
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.