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/ 16 October 2007
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has announced five new pay-TV channels – e.SAT, MultiChoice Africa, On Digital Media (ODM), Telkom Media and Walking on Water. The Media will speak to each of these players before they take to air. In the first instalment, ODM director Vino Govender talks about the new channel’s plans to cash in on an untapped market.
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/ 16 October 2007
Significant changes are currently taking place on the ground in Darfur. The peacekeeping forces of the African Union (AU) are being replaced by a hybrid AU-UN force under overall UN control. The assumption is that the change will be for the better, but this is questionable. The balance between the military and political dimensions of peacekeeping is crucial.
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/ 15 October 2007
In a chapter of his autobiography, Blame Me On History, Bloke Modisane explains black life to his white friends. They can’t understand why he doesn’t use the law to fight obvious injustices. He tells them it is the law that demands he carry a dompas, it is the law that has led to the demolition of his beloved Sophiatown.
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/ 15 October 2007
South African ace batsman Jacques Kallis revealed on Monday his team’s most desperate desire — to beat rivals Australia in a Test series. South Africa are riding high after drawing with Pakistan last week to clinch their first Test series on the subcontinent since 2000. They won the first Test by 160 runs in Karachi in the two-match series.
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/ 15 October 2007
The car carrying Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, may have bumped into another large, dark-coloured car shortly before crashing, the inquest into their deaths heard on Monday. Witness accounts previously have talked about a white Fiat Uno or a similar small vehicle, but Jean-Claude Catheline and his wife, Annick, said they saw two dark cars travelling at speed.
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/ 15 October 2007
About a third of the workforce at Sasol Mining near Secunda have begun a protected strike over wage increases, Sasol said on Monday. Sasol spokesperson Johann van Rheede said workers downed tools at Sasol’s five mines in Mpumalanga last Friday, continuing on Monday. The workers are members of the United People’s Union of South Africa.
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/ 15 October 2007
Zimbabwe will not allow foreigners to own broadcasting stations but could relax rules and licence locals who have been battling to meet stringent requirements, the information minister said on Monday. ”On the issue of ownership we cannot compromise,” Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu told a committee of lawmakers.
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/ 15 October 2007
Burundi rebels will rejoin a truce-monitoring team they quit in July, the facilitator, South African Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula, said on Monday, boosting efforts to bring a lasting end to a decade of conflict. ”The stalled Burundi peace process will be resumed on Saturday October 20,” Nqakula told a news conference.
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/ 15 October 2007
Brazilian and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered the largely complete fossil of a new species of giant dinosaur that roamed what is now northern Patagonia about 80-million years ago. The herbivorous Futalognkosaurus dukei measured between 32m and 34m from head to tail.