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/ 6 February 2008
It was a fine rebuff delivered in polite but unmistakably clipped tones. “I don’t do the press. Sorry.” And with that clincher, the well-published Wits University political scientist, Shireen Hassim, turned on her heels to return to her circle of fellow intellectuals to enjoy the last few minutes of her tea break.
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/ 6 February 2008
The United Democratic Movement has instructed its lawyers to consult on legal steps preventing the Scorpions from being dissolved. Adriaan Basson spoke to UDM leader Bantu Holomisa about his party’s decision.
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/ 6 February 2008
The contest for the White House claimed its biggest casualties so far this week when John Edwards (right) and Rudy Giuliani pulled out, turning it into a two-horse race for both the Democrats and Republicans. The Democratic duo, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, immediately began to court Edwards for his endorsement and scramble for his supporters ahead of ”Super Tuesday”.
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/ 6 February 2008
To count the dead, they ride motorbikes, charter planes and wade through snake-infested rivers. The precious statistic can help aid agencies convince a weary world there is a crisis in the jungles of Africa or forgotten corners of Iraq — where death comes from hunger and disease related to war, as well as from war itself.
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/ 5 February 2008
A funeral service was held in London for Bertram ”Jimmy” James, one of the few British prisoners to avoid being executed for joining in the ”great escape” from a German prison in World War II. James, who was 92, died on January 18 in Ludlow in northern England.
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/ 5 February 2008
The man accused of murdering model Sally Anne Bowman had sex with her dead body after drunkenly stumbling across her corpse but denies murdering her, a court was told on Tuesday. Chef Mark Dixie (37) was said to have ”taken advantage of the situation” after discovering the body in Croydon, south of London.
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/ 5 February 2008
Negotiations to address Zimbabwe’s political crisis were no longer needed as it was only procedural issues that remained to be solved, South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday.
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/ 5 February 2008
The African National Congress in the Eastern Cape was awaiting details on Tuesday regarding a brawl at a branch meeting which apparently landed some people in hospital. It was reported that a number of ANC members in Alice had sustained injuries after the meeting ended in an exchange of blows on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 5 February 2008
Société Générale was braced for fresh criticism from France’s top central banker on Tuesday as the man the bank blames for its record trading losses spoke out against his former employer. Jerome Kerviel (31) is under police investigation and said that he would not be turned into a ”scapegoat”.