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/ 23 October 2006
Child-committed sexual offences processed by the state have nearly doubled in the past year, the Star reported on Monday. It said 82 children — some as young as six — are being charged in courts across the country every day for raping or indecently assaulting other children.
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/ 23 October 2006
"Africans have woken up to the reality that they can, and should, own their own stories and that there is nothing stopping them from doing that." Stephanie Wolters interviewed Uduak Amimo, the new senior editorial adviser to the BBC World Service, about the media on the continent today.
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/ 23 October 2006
Since Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced a land revolution, headlines have focused on expropriations and sporadic violence that reportedly has claimed dozens of lives. A question seldom asked is whether the reforms are widespread and working.
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/ 22 October 2006
Some years ago — 1969 I think — in a revue called <i>Finger Trouble</i>, I had a sketch entitled <i>The Ten Commandments of the SABC</i>. I introduced the sketch by explaining how Dr Piet Meyer, then chairman of the SABC board, would go into the wilderness once a year. What amused me was that, in updating the sketch, how little I had to change its 1969 version.
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/ 22 October 2006
The South African government has set aside R3,8-billion for public transport for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Sunday. Radebe also warned taxi operators who plan to go on strike against the taxi-recapitalisation programme to do so within the law.
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/ 22 October 2006
Tropical Storm Paul formed off Mexico’s Pacific Coast on Saturday and looked set to turn into a hurricane as it headed toward luxury resorts on the Baja California Peninsula, the United States National Hurricane Centre said. Charts showed Paul passing near the tip of the desert peninsula popular with US tourists next week.
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/ 22 October 2006
South Africa saw a four-stroke lead disappear before coming back to clinch the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships on a count-out from defending champions Sweden on Saturday. The final group arrived at the last hole at the De Zalze course with the match all square.
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/ 22 October 2006
Ajax Cape Town came from behind to share the spoils with Santos in their Cape Town Premier Soccer League derby at the Greenpoint Stadium on Saturday. The game ended 1-1. Santos blew their chances of collecting full points when Byron Hendricks was sent off in the first half.
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/ 22 October 2006
Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack both scored for Chelsea on Saturday, helping the defending champions beat Portsmouth 2-1 in the English Premier League. Also on Saturday, it was: Charlton 0, Watford 0; Everton 2, Sheffield United 0; Wigan 4, Manchester City 0; and Aston Villa 1, Fulham 1.
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/ 22 October 2006
Michael Schumacher’s chances of retiring from Formula One with one final championship took a hit on Saturday. Schumacher’s Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa, racing in front of his home crowd, won the pole position in one minute, 10,680 seconds at the 4,3km Interlagos circuit.