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/ 30 November 2007
Springbok Sevens coach Paul True would have been happy with the way in which his side demolished a competent Tunisia 42-0 on Friday in the second round of the pool matches at the IRB Sevens World Series in Dubai. It was also a match in which Fabian Juries showed that he is back after missing the last two tournaments because of injury and his wife’s illness.
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/ 30 November 2007
One person was killed and at least six injured after a powerful 7,4-magnitude earthquake shook several Caribbean holiday islands, officials said on Friday. The quake, which struck just offshore the French island of Martinique on Thursday afternoon, destroyed buildings and caused widespread panic across the eastern Caribbean.
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/ 30 November 2007
The Committee of Traders of Greenmarket Square (CTG) launched an urgent application in the Cape High Court late on Friday to stop the City of Cape Town from taking over control of the square. The CTG’s lawyers said the threatened takeover of control, if not stopped, would effectively halt the informal trading at the flea market.
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/ 30 November 2007
African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma asked to be dismissed from the Cabinet in 2005, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said in an interview published in the Times on Friday. Lekota told the newspaper on Thursday that the ANC could not ”keep quiet” about the truth anymore.
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/ 30 November 2007
Dina Rodrigues — jailed for life for the murder of six-month-old Jordan Leigh Norton — on Friday filed papers at the Supreme Court of Appeal for leave to appeal her conviction and sentence. The Cape High Court in June this year handed down life sentences to 26-year-old Rodrigues and two accomplices for the contract murder of baby Jordan.
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/ 30 November 2007
Statistics that indicated HIV/Aids numbers were lower than previously thought was cold comfort, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Friday. Speaking in Pretoria a day before World Aids Day, Tutu said that while the country might say things had improved, it was unacceptable that 600 people died of Aids everyday in South Africa.
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/ 30 November 2007
South Africa have ditched star striker Benni McCarthy for the 2008 African Nations Cup in Ghana. Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira also dumped first-choice defender Bradley Carnell and midfielders Delron Buckley and Macbeth Sibaya from a 23-man squad named on Friday.
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/ 30 November 2007
The price of oil fell back below a barrel on Friday as the market speculated about the chances of an increase in Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries output at the cartel’s meeting next week, dealers said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery, was down ,75 to ,35 per barrel.
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/ 30 November 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) must defend its principles and values without hesitation or ambiguity, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Some people seemed very keen to denounce any restatement of the most basic ANC positions as constituting an attack on ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma, he said in his weekly online newsletter.
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/ 30 November 2007
Hundreds of Sudanese Muslims took to the streets of Khartoum on Friday demanding death for the British school teacher convicted of insulting Islam after her class named a teddy bear Muhammad. ”No one lives who insults the Prophet,” the protesters chanted, a day after Gillian Gibbons (54) was sentenced to 15 days in jail and deportation.