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/ 27 February 2008
The loudest cheers in a goalless Premier Soccer League match between Platinum Stars and Jomo Cosmos came when Stars communication manager Putco Mafan danced during a water break at a stifling hot Olympia Stadium in Rustenburg on Wednesday. The match was a tedious affair and the 500-strong crowd had little to cheer about.
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/ 27 February 2008
Eat an orange. Wear a face mask. Train elsewhere and fly in at the last possible moment to compete. These are some of the strategies suggested for Olympic athletes planning to compete in Beijing, where a thick cloud of smog often blankets one of the world’s most polluted cities.
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/ 27 February 2008
Police in Zimbabwe are ready to use force to quell any violence during national elections next month and any unrest after the poll, the official media reported on Wednesday. President Robert Mugabe is accused of holding on to power by using intimidation and rigging to ensure previous election victories.
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/ 27 February 2008
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas attacked a remote Sudanese village, killing 11 people and abducting 27 others, but the attack would not endanger peace talks under way, the military said on Wednesday. The attack on February 19 saw a group of LRA fighters make an incursion on the Sudanese town of Source Yubu.
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/ 27 February 2008
Custom and ethnicity allow young women to wear miniskirts, the National House of Traditional Leaders said on Wednesday in reaction to a recent attack on a woman wearing a short skirt at a Johannesburg taxi rank. The traditional leaders said the actions of the woman’s attackers were not only ”barbaric”, but also unconstitutional.
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/ 27 February 2008
Two workers at Harmony Gold’s Elandsrand mine near Carletonville were killed in a rockfall on Wednesday, the mining company said. Spokesperson Alwyn Pretorius said a localised seismic event caused the deaths of the two mineworkers at about 10.30am on Wednesday.
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/ 27 February 2008
South Africa produced 30% more genetically modified (GM) crops in 2007, with 1,8-million hectares of GM maize, soya and cotton being planted, Agri SA said on Wednesday. This makes the country the eighth-largest producer of GM crops in the world, behind larger countries such as the United States, Brazil, India and China.
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/ 27 February 2008
The elephant management norms and standards published this week are not a decision to cull, and should not be interpreted as such, global wildlife fund WWF said on Wednesday. It said it welcomed the rules, which would provide a uniform framework for the management of elephants in South Africa.
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/ 27 February 2008
”The birds were flying around like it was daylight,” said David Alrewas, one of the thousands of Britons woken at night by the most severe earthquake to strike Britain in 25 years. The quake, measuring 5,3 on the Richter scale, according to the British Geological Survey, shook large parts of England and Wales at 1am GMT on Wednesday.
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/ 27 February 2008
Pollution turned part of a major river system in central China red and foamy, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to as many as 200 000 people, the provincial government and a state news agency said on Wednesday. Some communities along tributaries of the Han River were using emergency water supplies.