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/ 13 December 2007
Mongezi Jinxela — convicted on a total of 219 charges including rape, kidnapping, robbery and assault — was sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years at the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday. Handing down judgement, Judge George Maluleke said he recommended that Jinxela never receive parole as he would never be rehabilitated.
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/ 13 December 2007
A restaurant fire in southern China killed has killed 10 people, state media reported on Thursday, hours after an apartment fire killed 21 in the eastern part of the country. Xinhua News Agency said the fire at a restaurant in the booming manufacturing city of Dongguan in Guangdong province also injured nine.
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/ 13 December 2007
United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came away from two days of talks on Thursday convinced that China sees the need for a stronger yuan. Although the grand-sounding ”strategic economic dialogue” apparently produced slim pickings, Paulson said it provided a sound foundation on which to expand cooperation.
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/ 13 December 2007
No matter how often he won, by however many shots, no matter how wide the gap grew between Tiger Woods and the rest of the world, he could never escape comparisons to 2000. Woods won the last three majors, including record-setting wins at Pebble Beach and St Andrews, to complete the career Grand Slam at the age 24.
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/ 13 December 2007
A car to be made by Iran, Malaysia and Turkey will be launched in 2011, the head of the Middle East’s biggest carmaker, Iran Khodro, said on Wednesday. Proton chief executive, Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, said in November the countries would develop the car with Islamic features such as a compass to determine the direction of Mecca.
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/ 13 December 2007
Confidence in South Africa’s manufacturing sector improved in the fourth quarter on a recovery in domestic demand, but export performance remained poor, the Bureau for Economic Research said on Thursday. The independent bureau’s manufacturing business confidence index increased by four points to 69.
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/ 13 December 2007
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) still expects to make an announcement regarding its investigation of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi this week, NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said on Thursday. ”An announcement will be made this week but I can’t say if it will be today,” said Tlali.
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/ 13 December 2007
The JSE continued to linger in the red at midday on Thursday, burdened by the sell-off on global markets. By noon, the JSE all-share index had lost 1,43% to 29 872,5 points. The platinum and gold mining indices retreated 2,52% and 1,03% respectively, while resources gave up 1,9%.
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/ 13 December 2007
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the White House suffered a serious setback on Wednesday when her main Democratic rival, Barack Obama, took a poll lead for the first time in New Hampshire, a key early state. The latest ratings, part of a trend that has seen him narrow the gap over the last month, has rattled the Clinton team.
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/ 13 December 2007
A retired Scottish school teacher was recovering this week after spending nearly four days trapped inside a men’s toilet with no food or cellphone. David Leggat was locked inside the bathroom at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen after the door jammed and the handle on the outside fell off.