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/ 19 October 2007
South African cricket officials decided on Friday to continue their tour of Pakistan despite an assassination attempt on returning former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi. Cricket South Africa’s general operations manager Brian Basson said that the decision to push on had been taken after the squad received safety assurances from their hosts.
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South Africa captain John Smit will seek to emulate Francois Pienaar on Saturday in lifting the Rugby World Cup in the final and admits he is driven by a sense of destiny, though he accepts it will not fall into his lap. The 29-year-old hooker was present in Johannesburg when South Africa stunned the All Blacks and Pienaar received the World Cup from Nelson Mandela.
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/ 19 October 2007
The Department of Minerals and Energy has launched a funding initiative to make it easier for women to access finance for mining pre-feasibility studies. State news agency BuaNews reported on Friday that access to finance for pre-feasibility studies was still the greatest challenge facing women in the mining industry.
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/ 19 October 2007
Gallery owner Warren Siebrits speaks to emerging photographer Sabelo Mlangeni about his new exhibition, <i>Invisible Women</i>, of portraits of the seldom-seen individuals who clean Jo’burg city by night.
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/ 19 October 2007
The UK’s best black actors must go to the US to get good roles, writes David Harewood, a winner in this year’s ‘black Baftas’.
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/ 19 October 2007
South African poet, mentor and poetry publisher Robert Berold has crafted a sensuous memoir of a year living and teaching in China, <i>Meanwhile Don’t Push and Squeeze</i> (Jacana). It also includes texts by Berold’s Chinese students and his partner Mindy Stanford. This is an extract.
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/ 19 October 2007
Four staff at a hospital in South Africa were killed on Friday when an employee went on a shooting spree shortly after being sacked, police said. Those victims of the shootings at Seshego Hospital, near Polokwane in Limpopo, included the chief executive officer, the human resource manager and the administration officer.
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/ 19 October 2007
Irish author Anne Enright beats competition from McEwan to win the Man Booker prize, writes Charlotte Higgins.
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/ 19 October 2007
Human trafficking is an evil as terrible as the Atlantic slave trade of the past, Chief Justice Pius Langa said on Friday. ”It is an evil as terrible as the slave trade of the past and it requires a concerted response from civil society and the government,” he said at the International Association of Women Judges Conference in Boksburg.
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/ 19 October 2007
Britain’s Northern Rock on Friday announced the resignation of chairperson Matt Ridley following a turbulent period at the crisis-hit bank. He will be succeeded by Bryan Sanderson, a former chairperson at British-based emerging markets bank Standard Chartered and healthcare firm Bupa, the company said in a statement.