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/ 17 October 2006
South Africa’s Presley Chweneyagae has won the award for an outstanding performance by an actor in a leading role for Tsotsi at the Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles, News24 reported on Monday. Chweneyagae was up against Denzel Washington (Inside Man), Cuba Gooding Junior (Shadowboxer), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kinky Boots) and Tyrese Gibson (Waist Deep).
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/ 17 October 2006
Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik beat Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in a tie-break game on Friday to become the first world chess champion recognised by rival chess bodies for more than a decade, RIA news agency reported. Kramnik won the final tie-break game out of four to win the championship, being held in Russia in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.
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/ 17 October 2006
Freddy Fender, the ”Bebop Kid” of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad Before the Next Teardrop Falls, died on October 14. He was 69. Fender, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2006, died at noon at his Corpus Christi home with his family at his bedside, said Ron Rogers, a family spokesperson.
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/ 17 October 2006
Lin Mu, regarded by Chinese liberal intellectuals as one of the nation’s pro-democracy pioneers, died suddenly at his home at the age of 79, his family said on Monday. His son said Lin, the former secretary of liberal Chinese leader Hu Yaobang, went for a nap on Sunday morning after reporting feeling unwell and never woke up.
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/ 17 October 2006
First National Bank (FNB) is conducting a massive R60-million upgrade of its ATMs, which will see customers perform the fastest ATM transactions in the country, and use of interactive graphics, which makes the ATMs even easier to use, minimising the chance of errors. All FNB ATMs will switch from fixed-line infrastructure to the much faster GPRS, 3G and HSDPA platforms provided by cellular group MTN.
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/ 17 October 2006
Ethiopia said on Tuesday that Eritrea’s deployment of troops and tanks to a demilitarised buffer zone along their border was just the latest in series of violations of a 2000 truce. Addis Ababa said it was ”carefully monitoring” the situation in the so-called Temporary Security Zone along the frontier.
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/ 17 October 2006
A Limpopo schoolgirl was fatally stabbed 28 times by her boyfriend as they walked home from school, police said on Tuesday. Superintendent Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said a manhunt had been launched for the 21-year-old youth, who attacked 17-year-old Pinky Maduwa with a sharp instrument on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2006
The strike at Sun International continued on Tuesday after failed dispute talks with the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) over the weekend. Some ”positive progress” was made in the discussions with Saccawu senior officials and shop stewards, Sun International said in a statement.
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/ 17 October 2006
Two trains on Rome’s underground metro system collided on Tuesday and as many 60 people were reported injured, some of them seriously. One report said some passengers were still trapped underground. Atac, the Rome metro operator, confirmed reports of the crash at Piazza Vittorio underground station in the city centre but could not provide any more details.
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/ 17 October 2006
South African cellular operator Vodacom on Tuesday announced the launch of a credit card to its customers, expanding its offerings beyond that of pure telecommunication services. The Vodacom Credit Card — to be launched in November — will offer Vodacom Contract and Top Up customers access to credit with a wide range of lifestyle rewards and benefits.