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/ 13 October 2006
Walt Disney on Thursday said it took ”appropriate action” against employees at its Paris theme park who were caught simulating sex while dressed as Disney characters in a digital video that has received wide attention on the internet. Disney would not say whether it had dismissed any of the costumed employees featured in the grainy video, which appears to have been shot with a hidden camera.
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/ 13 October 2006
A cheap and widely available malaria drug is an effective treatment for pregnant women. Although amodiaquine is an older malaria treatment, little was known about how safe it is in pregnant women. But researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found it eliminated the malaria parasite without causing any serious side effects.
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/ 13 October 2006
The growing number of brutal attacks on the Somali community in the Western Cape has forced the local police to admit that xenophobia, and not criminality, is the main motivating factor in the attacks. In the most recent incidents, two Somali businessmen with shops in Delft and Kuilsriver were killed, while one Somali trader was shot and injured in Khayelitsha.
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/ 13 October 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation has violated the recommendations of the commission it appointed to probe a blacklist by releasing only a sanitised summary of its findings on Thursday. The commission’s 78-page report, of which the Mail & Guardian has a copy, is damning. It confirms the existence of an arbitrary blacklist of outside commentators who should not be consulted and says there is a climate of fear in the broadcaster’s newsrooms.
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/ 13 October 2006
The CEO of Armscor, Sipho Thomo, has been implicated in a massive fraud case being investigated by the Scorpions and the National Prosecuting Authority against Ernest Khosa, the former CEO of the Mpumalanga Economic Empowerment Corporation (MEEC).According to papers filed in the regional court in Pretoria, Khosa spent millions of rands of government money and took huge bribes over a period of six years while he was CEO of the MEEC.
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/ 13 October 2006
South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs turned his attention to cricket on Friday, a day after being interrogated by Indian police in a six-year-old match-fixing case. The 32-year-old explosive batsman was playing in a warm-up match against a Mumbai team, three days before South Africa open their Champions Trophy campaign against New Zealand.
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/ 13 October 2006
Those who played soccer on township streets may remember the relatively rich boy lucky enough to own a plastic soccer ball. This lad, usually wanting in ability, took his ball away while all were having fun because his side was losing and the other kids were constantly outsmarting him.
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/ 13 October 2006
New Zealand’s Auckland Blues will host last year’s winners the Canterbury Crusaders in the opening Super 14 match when the 2007 competition begins in February, organisers Sanzar said on Friday. The competition will start a week earlier next year to allow for the Rugby World Cup in France.
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/ 13 October 2006
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has accepted Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi’s invitation to a meeting next week to resolve the city council dispute and wants to have the matter resolved quickly, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Thursday.
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/ 13 October 2006
The twelve-week long Shoprite Checkers strike that reportedly closed six stores across the country came to an end on Thursday after all-night negotiations. But this strike was just one of several months-long strikes this year in the service industry, a sector of the economy that is experiencing the strongest employment growth and the weakest labour relations.