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/ 11 November 2007
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) commitment to gender equality has never been tokenistic and remains a genuine priority, said party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday. He said he believes that for all people to be truly free, women must attain their freedom as provided by the Constitution.
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/ 11 November 2007
Norman Mailer would probably not have wanted an old man’s death. He would have preferred some other way — an accident, a bar fight or a lover’s brawl — so that his death, like his life, could inspire or appal or, above all, make people talk. But Mailer, a giant of American literature, died of renal failure on Saturday in a New York hospital bed.
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/ 10 November 2007
Nationwide airline’s Boeing 737-200s were temporarily grounded on Saturday, pending engine inspections, said the Civil Aviation Authority. This action comes after a Nationwide Boeing 737 carrying 106 passengers had to make an emergency landing in Cape Town on Wednesday after an engine fell off during take-off.
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/ 10 November 2007
Jake White was caught in the South African rugby crossfire during a bitter and ongoing power struggle of which he was the latest high-profile victim, the Saturday Star said on Saturday. This has emerged in his much-anticipated autobiography, In Black and White, which hits bookstores soon.
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/ 10 November 2007
The suspended head of Oprah Winfrey’s controversial private academy for girls in Johannesburg says she is hurt and has fled to the United States, the Saturday Star reported. Nomvuyo Nzamane broke her silence to deny flatly that she ever turned her back on girls allegedly abused by a school matron.
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/ 10 November 2007
The driver of a bus that went over a cliff near Piketberg in the Boland, killing nine people, has been charged with culpable homicide, news reports said on Saturday. The bus was taking 42 agricultural workers back to their homes when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle on Friday night.
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/ 10 November 2007
A man who posed as a clothing researcher to call women and harass them with questions about their underwear was jailed for two-and-a-half years on Friday. Paul Kavanagh (40) admitted to making about 15 000 calls over a 12-year period, beginning with innocuous questions about socks and cardigans.
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/ 10 November 2007
The enthusiasm that came with the storming to office of Guinea’s latest prime minister has waned and there are doubts over his capability to lift the country out of misery, a global think tank said on Friday. Lansana Kouyate, an ex-United Nations diplomat, was early this year named Prime Minister by ailing President Lansana Conte.
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/ 10 November 2007
South African diplomats have expressed shock at strong United States government criticism in the New York Times this week of the country’s stance over a United Nations resolution, introduced by the US, that condemns rape by governments and military formations.
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/ 10 November 2007
Responsible batting by the Dolphins enabled them to end the second day’s play in their SuperSport Series match against the Warriors in East London 206 runs ahead with two wickets in hand on Friday. In Benoni, the Diamond Eagles’ Pieter Koortzen struck his eighth first-class 100 in their SuperSport match against the Titans.