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/ 7 November 2007

Govt takes aim at mine managers

South Africa plans to extend its crackdown on mine safety and may prosecute mine managers if fatal accidents are caused by negligence. ”I don’t think the mine managers are doing enough to ensure the safety of workers,” said Sandile Nogxina, director general of the Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs.

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/ 7 November 2007

‘Wounded birds’ blight Swallows

An injury report from Moroka Swallows’ medical staff 24 hours before the crunch Premier League game against Kaizer Chiefs at King’s Park on Wednesday night conjured up a picture of the wounded limping back in pain from the Crimean War. Five Swallows players who ostensibly would be first-choice selections for the Sowetan ”Derby-by-the-Sea” are unavailable.

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/ 7 November 2007

African Hebrews sink roots deeper into Holy Land

Four decades after they heard what they call an angel’s order to leave the United States and move to Israel, a vegan community popularly known as ”the Black Hebrews” is about to get its own piece of the Holy Land. Identifying themselves as African Hebrew Israelites, about 300 African-Americans arrived in 1969 in the sleepy desert town of Dimona.