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/ 24 November 2007
Botswana’s government denied on Friday accusations it was preventing Bushmen from returning to their ancestral lands despite a court ruling last year granting them that right. The Bushmen have accused the government of refusing to transport them back, let them hunt or supply them with water.
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/ 24 November 2007
Seven people were killed and seven others seriously injured in a head-on collision on the N12 near Fochville on Friday, North West police said. Meanwhile, 22 passengers were injured when their bus crashed over the side of a bridge in Pretoria North on Friday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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/ 24 November 2007
SuperSport United beat Moroka Swallows 2-1 in their Premier Soccer League game played at Germiston Stadium on Friday night, and Bidvest Wits beat Bloemfontein Celtic 2-0 in their match. Part of the game in Germiston was played in heavy rain and referee Robert Smith was forced to stop the match for 15 minutes.
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/ 23 November 2007
A 12-year-old boy drowned and a 65-year-old man is missing in flooding caused by heavy rains in the Southern Cape, police said on Friday. Captain Malcolm Pojie said the young boy from Harkerville, about 5km to 10km outside Plettenberg Bay, was playing with friends along the banks of a river swollen by rain when he was swept downstream.
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/ 23 November 2007
A proposed new law to boost patriotism in Thailand would be ”chaotic” because it would require motorists to stop when the national anthem is played twice a day, lawmakers said on Friday. A vote on the Flag Bill proposed by a group of retired and active duty generals in the army-appointed Parliament was deferred on Thursday to allow a committee to study it.
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/ 23 November 2007
Tsitsikamma district residents in the Eastern Cape are being evacuated by Cacadu’s disaster management due to heavy rains, the South African Weather Service said on Friday. ”The R61 and R62 are still closed. One lane is open on the N2 between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town,” spokesperson Garth Sampson said.
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/ 23 November 2007
The South African Parliament officially closed for the year on Thursday with MPs voting for a 7,6% salary increase for President Thabo Mbeki, to R1,27-million a year, backdated to April 1. It was far short of the nearly 60% increase from R1,18-million to R1,89-million recommended by the independent Moseneke Commission in its review of salary packages for public office-bearers.
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/ 23 November 2007
Swarms of locusts have infested parts of north-eastern Kenya’s district of Mandera, ravaging pasture and crops in the arid area frequently hit by drought, officials said. Mandera district commissioner Naftali Mung’athia said the pests had destroyed crops on smallholder farms along the River Dauwa.
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/ 23 November 2007
Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s second-biggest producer of platinum, shut one of two shafts at its Marula mine after a worker was killed in an incident, an official at Implats said on Friday. Clapham is one of two shafts at Marula and produces half of the Marula mine’s total output of 6Â 000 ounces of platinum per month.
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/ 23 November 2007
Harmony Gold said on Friday one worker was injured and another was missing after a rockfall at its Elandsrand mine, which re-opened on Monday after it was shut down in early October following an accident. An official at Harmony said the mine had not been shut again after Friday’s accident, which took place about 3km underground at about 10.30am.