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/ 14 October 2006
Six elderly people were killed in a fire at an old age home in Krugersdorp, the Mogale City municipality said on Saturday. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the Moria Old Age Home on Friday night. Its cause was not yet known. ”One person was taken to hospital in a serious condition,” said public safety director Jorrie Jordaan.
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/ 14 October 2006
As the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Anglians prepared to set out on patrol through central Basra on Friday all the talk was of their boss’s suggestion that they were making the situation worse. General Sir Richard Dannatt’s comments that the British military presence in southern Iraq ”exacerbates the security problems” and that they should get out ”sometime soon” was met with a mix of frustration and quiet agreement
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/ 14 October 2006
Belgium, Italy and South Africa will on Monday be selected as non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council for the 2007/08 period, a spokesperson said on Friday. The three countries will be elected by secret ballot by the 192-member General Assembly to succeed Denmark and Greece and Tanzania respectively.
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/ 14 October 2006
A Texas police officer whose web page on MySpace.com included images of dismembered women has been suspended, the city attorney’s office in Wichita Falls said. Jeremiah Love’s page on the social networking site contained images and statements that could undermine public confidence in the police department and hurt his testimony in criminal cases.
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/ 14 October 2006
Angry they have been charged with a rape they say they did not commit, three members of Duke University’s lacrosse team say in an upcoming television interview that the accusations have hurt their lives and those of their families for good — even if they end up being cleared.
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/ 13 October 2006
Liberia’s defence minister said on Friday an exiled confidant of former president and warlord Charles Taylor was plotting to assassinate top government officials and called for international help tracking him down. Benjamin Yeaten, Taylor’s former chief of staff and one of his most feared fighters, is believed to be armed, somewhere in West Africa, Defence Minister Brownie Samukai said.
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/ 13 October 2006
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana insisted on Friday that he would not apologise for errors in a ”name-and-shame” campaign. Speaking at the Black Managers’ Forum conference in Durban, Mdladlana said: ”I am not going to apologise to anyone.” Mdladlana said that those companies that submitted equity reports under different names were at fault.
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/ 13 October 2006
More South Africans than ever before have electricity, water and sanitation — but local government is failing to run these services properly, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) said on Friday. ”Local government has proved to be a most unreliable custodian of existing infrastructure,” said the IJR’s 2006 transformation audit, Money and Morality, released in Johannesburg.
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/ 13 October 2006
The Gauteng Aids Conference concluded on Friday in Boksburg on the East Rand with delegates affirming the need to stop talking and take action. ”I have come to this conference for the last four years and heard the same thing; it’s time to take some action,” declared one delegate. The three-day conference was aimed at further developing a multi-sectoral response to HIV/Aids in the province.
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/ 13 October 2006
A strike by cash-in-transit security guards has been put on hold for now, as unions await assurances from government that their demands will be met, a union representative said on Friday. Senior members of the Motor Transport Workers’ Union and the major cash-in-transit companies had a ”productive” meeting on Friday afternoon.