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The damage to the Koeberg nuclear plant was done deliberately and was not an accident, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said on Tuesday. One of the two generators at Koeberg was damaged in December in what Erwin now described as sabotage, causing severe outages in the Western Cape over the past month.
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The Pretoria High Court has dismissed an urgent application by the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union to allow 60Â 000 officers special votes or ballots at voting stations where they are not registered. Judge NM Mavundla said allowing police to leave their posts to vote could lead to chaos.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan hailed France’s idea to tax airline tickets to fund development aid on Tuesday, in an address at the opening of an international conference in Paris. He urged other countries to follow suit, noting that Chile was also implementing the tax.
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India is aiming for annual economic growth of 10% in the next few years, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday while delivering a ”common man’s Budget” that focused on rural areas, social security and infrastructure. ”I believe that growth is the best antidote to poverty,” Chidambaram said while presenting the government’s 2006-2007 Budget to Parliament.
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The leader of the al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia, Fahd bin Faraj al-Joweir, was among five militants killed in a shootout in Riyadh on Monday, the Saudi interior ministry announced. "Joweir (36) … had taken charge of the criminal cells," after other leading members were eliminated by security forces, the ministry said.
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”This organisation [the African National Congress] led us out of oppression, and this organisation will lead us out of poverty,” President Thabo Mbeki told Soweto residents during an election campaign on Tuesday. Mbeki urged hundreds of Soweto residents at the Hector Pieterson Memorial in Orlando West to vote for the ANC.
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At least 11 people were killed and 39 wounded on Tuesday when bombs went off in three of Baghdad’s Shi’ite neighbourhoods, an interior ministry official said. The official said the attacks, which occurred within minutes of each other in central and eastern Baghdad, were caused by two car bombs and one suicide bomber who blew himself up.
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Senator Hillary Clinton on Monday accused President George Bush’s chief political adviser, Karl Rove, of ”obsessing” about her after the publication of a book quoting him as saying she would win the Democratic nomination but was too ”brittle” to win the presidency in 2008.
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The head of Swaziland’s oldest political party has pledged to officially register his organisation, testing whether Swaziland’s new Constitution has really marked the end of decades of a royal decree prohibiting political opposition. At a meeting of the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress president Obed Dlamini offered veiled criticism of King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch.
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Wallaby winger Wendell Sailor was suspended for an additional two matches and fined an extra 3 500 Australian dollars ( 587) on Tuesday over an incident outside a Cape Town nightclub during the New South Wales Waratah’s tour of South Africa earlier this month.