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A group of 50-somethings will try to put some anarchy back into rock’n’roll on Thursday as the Sex Pistols launch their brief reunion tour with a gig at Brixton Academy in London. The British foursome are getting back together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their seminal album Never Mind the Bollocks … Here’s the Sex Pistols.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) interest in the African National Congress’s (ANC) national conference is influenced by the will to retain an ANC bias towards the workers of the country. This is according to Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi, who was speaking at the general council of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union.
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/ 8 November 2007
A cold virus used to make an experimental HIV vaccine that was discontinued in September somehow may have caused volunteers to be more susceptible to Aids, the vaccine’s developers said on Wednesday. Researchers were doubly dismayed when it appeared that those who had been vaccinated were more likely to become infected.
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/ 8 November 2007
A majority of the countries who undertook to assist Sudan financially in implementing the African country’s peace agreement have not fulfilled their pledges, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. He said his government would do everything in its power to ensure that countries fulfilled their pledges.
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/ 8 November 2007
Koni Media, led by the Groovin Nchabaleng, might not sound like a very serious proposition. But the secretive attempt by Koni to buy Johncom is part of a Machiavellian strategy to deal with the <i>Sunday Times</i>, the group’s largest and most powerful newspaper. The attempted buy-out by a government front follows news that the police are investigating the <i>Sunday Times</i> editor.
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/ 8 November 2007
Darfur has been falling off the radar a bit over the past few weeks. The child-adoption scandal in neighbouring Chad and the potential implosion of the peace deal between Khartoum and South Sudan pushed the troubled region off the front pages. The dearth of coverage of the subject doesn’t mean that there has been an improvement.
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/ 7 November 2007
Self-regulation for newspapers ratcheted up a gear last week with the inaugural meeting of the Press Council in Johannesburg. But the African National Congress (ANC) is also notching up its own pressure on the press. Comprising a panel of citizens and journalists, the Press Council was launched earlier this year to beef up the existing ombudsman in handling complaints about coverage. The system is a kind of fifth estate to check on the fourth.
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/ 7 November 2007
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund is ”unaware” of having received any money from German arms manufacturer Thyssen-Krupp during the arms deal. Speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Patricia de Lille said the African National Congress and the children’s fund benefited inappropriately from the arms deal.
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/ 7 November 2007
Locked security gates and the immobility of some residents as well as a suspected electrical fault all possibly contributed to the 12 deaths in a blaze on Tuesday night at one wing of a KwaZulu-Natal old-age home. One of those who managed to escape from the home is believed to be a 99-year-old woman.
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/ 7 November 2007
The war to halt perlemoen (abalone) poaching has pitched R180-a-kilogram divers on the one side against R4 000-a-month marine inspectors on the other, MPs heard on Wednesday during a briefing to members of Parliament’s environmental affairs portfolio committee.