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/ 22 November 2007
Fighting flared in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s powder keg east on Wednesday, as the army battled insurgent troops after killing 20 rebel soldiers who staged a pre-dawn attack. Men loyal to cashiered general Laurent Nkunda launched a raid on an army position near Rutshuru, the headquarters of an eponymous district in the troubled Nord-Kivu province.
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/ 22 November 2007
A third person wanted in connection with a kidnapping case for which paroled former bouncer Gary Beuthin and his girlfriend were arrested, handed himself over to police on Thursday morning. Superintendent Eugene Opperman said the three were expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
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/ 22 November 2007
Martin Johnson has urged the British and Irish Lions to be creative with their selection policy when it comes to picking a squad for the 2009 tour of South Africa. An enduring fascination is that players who have not shone or even played at all for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales can become stars when they put on the red shirt of the Lions.
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/ 22 November 2007
Some of the biggest actors in Hollywood are to support striking writers in a series of internet downloads due to debut on Thursday. The cast list for the 21 spots, which range in length from a few seconds to several minutes, reads like a who’s who of liberal Hollywood.
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/ 22 November 2007
A New Zealand father has been convicted of assault for smacking his eight-year-old son on the bottom in what is believed to be the first case under a controversial new law. "One time, maybe you could have got away with this, but you can’t do that now," Judge Anthony Walsh told the 33-year-old man on Wednesday.
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/ 22 November 2007
One way of looking at the alarming chasm that has opened up between South Africa’s black and white advocates is that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe is entirely to blame. If he had stepped down quietly over the payments he received from Oasis Asset Management, the argument goes, members of the Bar in Johannesburg and Cape Town would not be at one another’s throats.
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/ 21 November 2007
There’s good cause for why Rapport editor Tim du Plessis is getting flak for firing Deon Maas — a columnist whose call to tolerate satanism outraged some readers. The paper has about 300Â 000 buyers, but Du Plessis’s excessive reaction was in response to a number of boycott threats and, according to his paper, 450 duplicated letters of protest and 629 SMSs.
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/ 21 November 2007
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) will appear in the Constitutional Court on Thursday in the case of Independent Newspapers versus the minister of intelligence. The FXI said on Wednesday it would argue that Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils did not follow proper procedure when trying to withhold certain documents from the public.
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/ 21 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki’s announcement on Wednesday of a ”window of opportunity” for people convicted of alleged political offences before June 16 1999 has been warmly welcomed by most political parties. Pan Africanist Congress leader Motsoko Pheko hailed Mbeki’s announcement as an act of courage against odds.
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/ 21 November 2007
A masterpiece by a Mexican artist that was found in the trash by a woman who knew little about modern art has been sold for more than -million. The painting Tres Personajes, by Rufino Tamayo, was discovered in 2003 by Elizabeth Gibson, who spotted it on her morning walk on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.