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/ 13 October 2006
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Brian DePalma has an almost unique ability to scramble a plot and has done so with <i>The Black Dahlia</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 13 October 2006
The question whether the apartheid regime was responsible for the death of former Mozambican president Samora Machel on October 19 1986 remains unanswered 20 years later, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki paid tribute to Machel, whose death in an aircraft crash at Mbuzini in Mpumalanga was mourned as much by the ANC as by Frelimo.
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/ 13 October 2006
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development e-Africa Commission — which falls under the African Union — will be hosting a ceremony in Cape Town on Monday for the signing of a protocol on the broadband ICT infrastructure network project — including the Eastern Africa sub-marine system, a statement from the Department of Communications said on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2006
Presidential election campaigning began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday. Frontrunners Joseph Kabila and Jean-Pierre Bemba square off for the second time on October 29 after a run-off election was called following July’s vote. Then, incumbent President Joseph Kabila won 45% of the vote, just short of the 50% needed to be declared president.
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/ 13 October 2006
Criminals are exploiting South Africa’s liberation for their own gain and therefore the battle to curb crime needs full community participation, like the liberation struggle, Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula said on Friday. ”Our liberation, as the case has been in other parts of the world, created spaces that have been exploited by wrongdoers.”
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/ 13 October 2006
Tony van Kralingen, managing director SAB Limited SA, has won the Sunday Times Business Times marketing excellence awards chairman’s award, it was announced at midnight on Thursday. Van Kralingen won the award as ”a first rate marketing professional who now is the executive head of a major quoted company”, according to a statement.
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/ 13 October 2006
Suspected Islamic militants beheaded a Myanmar migrant worker in front of his teenage daughter in the most gruesome of a spate of attacks in Thailand’s troubled south. Several militants burst into the house of the 36-year-old prawn farm worker late Thursday, blindfolded his teenage daughter and shot the man at close range before beheading him, police said.
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/ 13 October 2006
Three of 10 men arrested after a cash heist in central Johannesburg which claimed the life of a 15-month-old baby, will appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday, police said. The men will appear on charges of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery.
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/ 13 October 2006
Israel killed nine Palestinians, at least three of them Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, pressing a nearly four-month offensive launched after a soldier was abducted, witnesses said. Hamas’s armed wing responded by firing six make-shift rockets into Israel.
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/ 13 October 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday condemned the 50 basis points hike in the repo rate, saying that the hike would snuff out the glimmer of hope of increasing growth in the manufacturing industry. "This policy will destroy still more jobs and sabotage prospects of halving unemployment and poverty by 2014," Cosatu said in statement.