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/ 16 October 2007
The SABC is not the only public broadcaster marred by internal wrangling. Its British counterpart the BBC grapples with its own problems, writes Herman Wasserman.
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/ 16 October 2007
Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline. In the most ambitious and expensive project of its type, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) intends to puncture sea defences around Wallasea island, near Southend in southern England.
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/ 16 October 2007
It might seem the epitome of a David versus Goliath mismatch — up to 12 tonnes of heavily armoured mammal flesh versus a few hundred milligrams of irritating insect — but despite their thick skins and size advantage, elephants turn tail and flee at the sound of a swarm of bees, according to research in Kenya.
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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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/ 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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/ 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.