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/ 27 November 2007
Three would-be immigrants from Morocco tried to row across the Strait of Gibraltar on a surfboard in rough seas before they were picked up by a passing ferry, a Spanish newspaper said on Tuesday. The ferry was 20 minutes out of the Moroccan port of Tangiers on November 20, according to a passenger, Miguel Marin, quoted by <i>El Mundo</i> newspaper.
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/ 27 November 2007
Western Cape provincial minister for local government Richard Dyantyi’s announcement that he intends to probe spy allegations against the City of Cape Town is an African National Congress (ANC) ploy to divert attention from Premier Ebrahim Rasool’s woes, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Tuesday.
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/ 27 November 2007
Progress was being made in strengthening Gauteng’s economy but unemployment was still a concern, Gauteng minister of finance Paul Mashatile said on Tuesday. ”[W]hen we report back to the people of Gauteng [in 2009] we will be able to say boldly and without fear of contradiction that we have successfully completed our five-year mandate,” he said.
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/ 27 November 2007
The information superhighway could become clogged with data by 2010, forcing broadband users to revert to dial-up modems, according to a new study. The report predicts that unless more than -billion is invested in the global internet infrastructure, a level of gridlock will develop that will make it almost impossible to use rich-media sites.
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/ 27 November 2007
Singapore has banned an Xbox video game because it contains a sex scene between a woman and a female alien character, the city-state’s censors said. Mass Effect, a futuristic space adventure published by Microsoft, has been banned from sale because of ”lesbian intimacy” between two characters.
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/ 27 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s latest inflation figures have been delayed because there are not enough goods in the shops by which to measure price increases, it was reported on Tuesday. There was an ”unavailability of required information, such as prices of goods, due to their shortage”, the Herald quoted Moffat Nyoni, director of the Central Statistical Office, as saying.
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/ 27 November 2007
A taxi driver saw British citizen Anthony Cooper flick a burning cigarette on to dry grass, which started a runaway fire on Table Mountain, the Cape Town Regional Court heard on Tuesday. The driver, Craig Ward, testified before magistrate Wilma van der Merwe in Cooper’s trial on a charge of culpable homicide and one of contravening the National Forestry Act.
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/ 27 November 2007
The National Football League’s (NFL) Sean Taylor, a star defensive player for the Washington Redskins, died on Tuesday after being shot at his home near Miami, local television stations in Washington reported. Taylor (24), who was the Redskins first pick in the 2004 draft, was shot in the leg, severing his femoral artery, during an apparent home robbery on Monday.
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/ 27 November 2007
Telephone connections have been restored to East Rand offices of the Department of Home Affairs, a home affairs official said on Tuesday. ”All telephone services are working correctly,” the regional home affairs manager for Springs, Themba Ndebele, said.
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/ 27 November 2007
The commission appointed to investigate whether National Prosecution Authority head Vusi Pikoli was fit to hold office on Monday held a meeting with Department of Justice and Constitutional Development officials and Pikoli in a bid to expedite the investigation, the commission said on Tuesday.