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/ 16 October 2006
South Africa’s Retief Goosen retained his Volkswagen Masters-China title by three strokes on Sunday, the first successful title defence of his career. The world number seven shot a one-under-par 71 to finish the week with an impressive 21-under-par 267 total at the Yalong Bay Golf Club. The win was his first of 2006 and the 26th of his career, earning him  550.
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/ 16 October 2006
A senior Zimbabwean judge has rapped local courts for inefficiency after he found 10 suspects languishing for up to nine years in jail while awaiting trial or sentencing, a state-run daily said on Monday. ”This is quite embarrassing and disturbing,” Justice Makarau was quoted as saying by the Herald.
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/ 16 October 2006
South Korea is planning to send kimchi into space in a giant leap for its much-loved national dish, Yonhap news agency reported Monday. A state-run food research body is pushing ahead with a plan to develop traditional foods like kimchi, the chili paste "gochujang" and ginseng so that they can be eaten in space, Yonhap said.
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/ 16 October 2006
All that was in tune for Moroka Swallows during their late 2-1 Premier League defeat against Jomo Cosmos at Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon was the club’s brass band. While the Birds only seemed to play with urgency and purpose while trailing, the young ensemble in the stand kept up an incessant musical rapport throughout the 90 minutes — but to no avail.
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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
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.