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/ 20 October 2007
Benazir Bhutto on Friday accused a shadowy web of figures with links to Pakistan’s powerful military establishment of orchestrating Thursday’s huge suicide bombing that killed 138 people and wounded 300. A ”brotherly country” had provided Bhutto with intelligence about four suicide squads roaming Karachi.
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/ 20 October 2007
The military regime in Burma is still holding up to 2 500 people in prisons and labour camps around the country, and continues to arrest suspected dissidents, the British government claimed on Friday. The crackdown on the protest movement has only served to make Burma more unstable, a senior British diplomat said.
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/ 20 October 2007
Efforts to revive Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer when he was found unconscious in March were hindered by the position of his body, a doctor testified at the inquest into Woolmer’s death on Friday. ”When I went to the room, Woolmer’s head was under the toilet bowl and I could not do resuscitating exercises,” said Asher Cooper.
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/ 20 October 2007
Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya was accused of lying about his ”imminent arrest” by South African Broadcasting Corporation group chief executive Dali Mpofu and writer Ronald Suresh Roberts at a conference in Sandton on Friday.
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/ 19 October 2007
Telkom chief financial officer Kaushik Patel has resigned, the company announced on Friday. Acting chief executive Reuben September said Patel would leave Telkom at the end of October ”to pursue his own interests”. Patel’s responsibilities will be taken over by the company’s current group executive for corporate finance, Deon Fredericks, in an acting role from November 1.
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/ 19 October 2007
A disciplinary committee of the Cape Town city council has recommended that controversial councillor Badhi Chaaban be removed from office. The disciplinary hearings — which Chaaban claimed were a kangaroo court — followed claims that he sought to bribe councillors to cross the floor to his National People’s Party.
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/ 19 October 2007
Children’s rights activists on Friday urged MPs to push through a Bill that will ban corporal punishment of children, saying it was vital that children be protected from violence. The social development portfolio committee on Thursday postponed deliberations on the measure after members of the African National Congress’s parliamentary caucus reportedly objected.
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/ 19 October 2007
The responsibility of addressing South Africa’s apartheid past lies within the country itself and not the United States courts, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla said on Friday. In a statement issued by her office, she reiterated the government’s stance against the case brought by a group of apartheid victims in US courts.
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/ 19 October 2007
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has reopened a gas plant of 300-million standard cubit feet in southern Nigeria that was shut down last week because of a fire on its supply pipeline. ”Utorogu gas plant, which was shut in a bit to starve the fire, has reopened and gas supply is ramping up,” the company said in a statement late on Thursday.
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/ 19 October 2007
Two local TV series are going for gold at the Emmy Awards, writes Kwanele Sosibo.