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The Botswana Department of Prisons and Rehabilitation has confirmed the hanging of death row inmate Sepeni Thubisane Popo, the Mmegi (the Reporter) newspaper reported Monday. It was Botswana’s 39th execution since independence from Britain in 1966.
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/ 6 November 2007
A government inspection was still ongoing at on one of South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti’s larger mines, which was shut on Friday after a miner was killed in a rockfall, the company said on Tuesday. More than 150 workers have been killed in mine accidents this year in South Africa compared to about 200 last year.
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/ 6 November 2007
Europe’s trade chief accused Nigeria and South Africa on Monday of trying to block negotiations for new trade and investment deals between the European Union and scores of former colonies. The EU wants to sign new Economic Partnership Agreements with nearly 80 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries before December 31.
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/ 6 November 2007
The JSE retained its strong tone at noon on Tuesday as investors continued to hunt for bargains after sharp losses in recent days, while rallying gold and platinum prices provided additional support. At 12.04pm, the all-share index was up 0,62% thanks to a 2,02% gain in the gold mining index.
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The African National Congress (ANC) will not financially benefit from a business lounge set up on the sidelines of its national conference in Polokwane in December. ”We, as a private company will decide what we want to do with the money,” said Nic Wolpe, the project organiser for Network Lounge.
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/ 6 November 2007
A Chadian judge was to question several Europeans on Tuesday who face kidnap and other charges for trying to fly 103 children, supposedly orphans from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, to France. Originally, 17 Europeans and four Chadians were arrested after the Zoe’s Ark charity tried to fly the children out of Chad.
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/ 6 November 2007
As the secondary literature on the post-apartheid novel continues to expand (possibly faster than the post-apartheid novel), Cheryl Stobie takes an interesting and hitherto unique line. The figure of the bisexual in South African fiction is a marginal one, yet in Somewhere in the <i>Double Rainbow: Representations of Bisexuality in Post-Apartheid Novels</i> (UKZN Press) Stobie places that figure centrally, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 6 November 2007
In the opening paragraph of Alice Sebold’s <i>The Almost Moon</i> (Picador), the narrator Helen Knightly sets the searing tone for the rest of the novel by telling the reader: "When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. Dementia as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mother’s core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks-old vase of flowers."
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/ 5 November 2007
Italian police on Monday arrested Salvatore lo Piccolo, who is suspected to have become the new head of the Sicilian Mafia following the 2006 arrest of the former ”boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano. In a morning operation, about 40 police officers surrounded and then raided a villa near the Sicilian capital, Palermo.
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/ 5 November 2007
Olievenhoutbosch serial killer Richard Jabulani Nyauza smiled and said he ”felt nothing” after being given 16 life terms in the Pretoria High Court on Monday for a series of gruesome murders. ”I feel nothing. They’re doing too little. It changes nothing,” the HIV-positive Nyauza told reporters before being led down to the court cells.