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/ 16 October 2006
The Highveld Lions beat the Warriors by nine wickets with more than 10 overs to spare in their Domestic Championship match at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom on Sunday. The Lions innings was interrupted by a heavy downpour just five runs short of victory, but they returned an hour later for Stephen Cook to score the winning runs.
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/ 16 October 2006
The police don’t have the facts on attacks on the Somali community and should get these, said Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Sunday. Leon said representatives of the Somali community claimed that 40 Somalis had been killed in the past three months alone.
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/ 16 October 2006
Twenty-two charges of rape were laid against police officers between April 2005 and March this year, media reports said on Monday. This, according to an Independent Complaints Directorate report, was the highest such figure in the past six years.
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/ 16 October 2006
Workers on three wine farms in the Western Cape will take ownership of one of the farms, said the owners on Sunday. ”An innovative empowerment deal will transform employees on the three Franschhoek-based Solms properties into land owners after generations of tilling vineyards on which they had no claim,” said Paula Wilson, the spokesperson for the farms.
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/ 16 October 2006
A powerful earthquake and repeated aftershocks shook Hawaii on Sunday, rattling nerves, knocking out power in Honolulu and prompting Governor Linda Lingle to issue a disaster declaration for the entire state. The earthquake was not strong enough to trigger a tsunami warning, according to Victor Sardina, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.
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/ 16 October 2006
A significant number of conflict diamonds are being smuggled out of rebel-held territories of Côte d’Ivoire to neighbouring Ghana, where they are being certified as conflict-free and sold through legitimate channels, the NGO, Global Witness, said this week. The findings were made by the United Nation Group of Experts on Côte d’Ivoire, whose latest report was released this week.
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/ 16 October 2006
Not many post-independence countries had a worse start than Botswana. At independence in 1966, the country had 22 university graduates, about 100 matriculants and only 12km of paved road. However, it has had record economic growth rates, higher than any other country in the world over the past three decades.
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/ 16 October 2006
Government’s new green energy strategy is steaming ahead, combining a strong focus on renewables and energy efficiency. Three organisations have been established this year under the Central Energy Fund, a state-owned body, with a mandate to research and commercialise alternative energy technologies.
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/ 16 October 2006
The United Nations human rights watchdog has expressed serious concern about abuses in the Western Sahara, which is illegally occupied by Morocco, and recommends self-determination for the Saharawi people as the most effective remedy.
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/ 16 October 2006
Pundits have delighted in predicting the death of De Beers. For most of last century, De Beers headed up a world diamond cartel that regulated rough diamond supply and kept prices high. It sold between 80% and 90% of the world’s diamonds. Then things changed. The cartel broke up, the group sold its shares in Anglo American and de-listed, announcing a new strategy.