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/ 16 November 2007
International news agencies have ended their boycott of Australian cricket after reaching a deal over media coverage rights. Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse had all been refusing to cover the series between Australia and Sri Lanka in protest at Cricket Australia’s demands.
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/ 16 November 2007
A 37-year-old man who pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife 45 times before driving her into Durban’s harbour in a bid to cover-up the murder was sentenced to 18-years’ imprisonment in the Durban High Court on Friday. Judge Vivienne Niles-DunĂ©r ordered that Dhanendra Heeralall only be eligible for parole after 11 years.
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/ 16 November 2007
South African media firm Johnnic Communications (Johncom) said on Friday its first-half attributable and headline earnings per share was expected to be 455% to 465% higher than the previous period. The firm said its interim results would be released on November 22.
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/ 16 November 2007
The European Union said on Thursday it had raised the troops needed for a planned peacekeeping force in Chad but still lacked helicopters vital for transport in tough terrain. French General Henri Bentegeat, the head of the EU’s Military Committee, said he was confident the 3 700-strong force could start deploying in a couple of weeks.
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/ 16 November 2007
A police website has tracked down nine of Britain’s 13 most wanted paedophiles in the past year, the specialist crime team in charge said on Friday. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre said the men had been missing for a combined 20 years.
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/ 16 November 2007
Pink cricket balls will be used in a match for the first time in Australia in January, reports said on Thursday. The match, between the West Australian and Queensland women’s teams, will be a curtain-raiser for a Twenty20 game between Queensland and Tasmania.
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/ 16 November 2007
Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi ordered villages to stockpile food to help cushion the effect of rising inflation, his economic adviser said on Thursday. About six thousand tonnes of wheat had already been put aside for the stocks as part of a bid to stabilise prices.
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/ 16 November 2007
David Goldblatt welcomes Marlene Dumas back home at the opening of her exhibition, Intimate Relations. This is an edited extract from his speech.
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/ 16 November 2007
South African Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said she would not refuse a nomination to head the ruling African National Congress and the country. Asked if she would be available for the ANC’s top post, she said: ”ANC cadres never refuse when they are deployed.”
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/ 16 November 2007
Anthony Egan reviews Bill Nasson’s <i>Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918 </i>.