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/ 24 December 2005
The Matatiele-Maluti mass action group has filed an urgent application with the Constitutional Court asking to be excluded from Friday’s legislation on municipal boundaries, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports. The legislation will transfer the Matatiele area from KwaZulu-Natal to the Eastern Cape.
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/ 24 December 2005
Police have arrested a 16-year-old youth in the KwaZulu-Natal town of Paddock in connection with the murder of teenager Kalin Jooste in nearby Margate this week, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports. The young man was arrested following a tip-off from the public, according to the report.
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/ 23 December 2005
"Journalists don’t often get the chance to set the agenda, to pursue a theme. The pressure of events and unplanned story opportunities plays havoc with attempts to follow a systematic track. However this year, my colleague Stefaans Brümmer and I were able to bring a long-term theme of investigation to fruition," writes the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Sam Sole.
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/ 23 December 2005
A spokesperson of Egypt’s Islamist opposition Muslim Brotherhood retracted on Friday a remark made earlier by the group’s top leader that the Holocaust was a ”myth”. In his weekly article posted on Thursday on the group’s website, the group’s leader, Mohammed Mahdi Akef, had described the Holocaust as a ”myth”.
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/ 23 December 2005
Dust off the tinsel and put on those dancing shoes to usher in <b>2006</b>.
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/ 23 December 2005
It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, Santa Claus is still going to check your car for bombs at one ritzy Indonesian hotel this Christmas, where a sleighful of Santas have been descending on cars as they enter the grounds in a bid to thwart potential Islamic extremist attacks.
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/ 23 December 2005
A Dutch-Mauritian research team has discovered remains of the extinct dodo bird on the Indian ocean island, dating back about 2 000 to 3 000 years. The fossil material was excavated in an area of Mauritius called Mare aux Songes, a low-lying swamp area in the dry south-eastern part of the island.
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/ 23 December 2005
The United Nations food aid agency said on Friday that it will be forced to halve rations for refugees in Zambia within days because of a funding shortfall. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it urgently needs ,5-million to feed about 82 000 Angolans and Congolese in the African country.
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/ 23 December 2005
The public has been warned not to use borehole or groundwater between Brits and the Roodekopjies dam after a large release of a toxic substance into the Crocodile River. The deputy regional director for water resource management in the North West said there was a large release of toxic chromium-6 into the river below Brits.
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/ 23 December 2005
Former Cabinet minister Chris Heunis was in a stable but ”still critical” condition in the Vergelegen medi-clinic in Somerset West on Friday, his daughter said. She said her father has had long-term kidney problems, and was admitted on Tuesday suffering from dehydration.