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/ 27 October 2007
New evidence in the Cape Town spy saga details secret meetings involving city-funded spies and wire-tapping, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported on Friday. This was before the city council entered into a binding contract with private investigators George Fivaz and Associates.
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/ 27 October 2007
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said he is determined to attend a Europe-Africa summit in Lisbon next month despite pressure from Britain that he be kept off the invitation list. ”Portugal said they would invite me,” Mugabe said in an interview published by state media in Angola on Friday.
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/ 27 October 2007
World oil prices surged to historic highs on Friday, breaching $92 for the first time in New York amid rising tension in crude-rich Iran and tightening United States energy supplies. New York’s main futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, soared to a record intraday high of $92,22 per barrel.
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/ 26 October 2007
South Africa should have enough electricity available by 9pm on Friday to avoid evening load shedding, Eskom said on Friday. However, this all depended on the success of attempts to fix both the break in transmission from Mozambique and the country’s own units knocked out of service, said spokesperson Tony Stott.
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/ 26 October 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille on Friday released the terms of reference of an investigation into claims that the city footed a Democratic Alliance bill for a probe into controversial councillor Badhi Chaaban. The inquiry is to be headed by a retired judge or senior advocate, who has yet to be named.
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/ 26 October 2007
Traditional fishermen and coastal communities are confused and bewildered by the perlemoen ban, the Masifundise Development Trust said on Friday. It was reacting to the Cabinet announcement on Thursday that all wild perlemoen harvesting will be suspended indefinitely from the end of this month.
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/ 26 October 2007
An international team of astronomers have unexpectedly found hundreds of expanding ”super-massive” black holes buried deep inside galaxies billions of light years from Earth. The astounding discovery is the first direct evidence that most huge galaxies in the far reaches of the universe generated cavernous black holes during their infancy, when about 3,5-billion years old.
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/ 26 October 2007
South Africa remained totally opposed to all weapons of mass destruction, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday. The country had called for their total elimination in all international forums, she said. Suggestions that South Africa had made a U-turn on its nuclear stance were a ”figment of the imagination”.
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/ 26 October 2007
Darfur’s two main rebel groups will not attend United Nations-African Union mediated peace talks in Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of a peace deal to end four-and-a-half years of conflict. ”We decided not to go,” said Justice and Equality Movement chief negotiator Ahmed Tugod Lissan.
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/ 26 October 2007
The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war. Luis Mondlane, a senior official in the national demining institute, said the government would need about -million to fund a new programme to get rid of all unexploded ordnance by 2012.