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/ 12 October 2007
Renowned golfer Gary Player reiterated on Friday his company was only involved in the design of a golf course in Burma and had no links with the controversial Burma regime. Player was recently removed from the guest list for the Nelson Mandela Invitational golf tournament, which is set to take place in the Western Cape in November.
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/ 12 October 2007
Pikoli inquiry chairperson Frene Ginwala has dismissed a demand by Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille to recuse herself. Replying to a letter by Zille in this regard, Ginwala said letter had been drawn to her attention on Thursday night, ”though I had learnt of its contents via the media”.
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/ 12 October 2007
Protesting University of Johannesburg (UJ) students were negotiating with the management on Friday afternoon. More than 300 students marched outside the Bunting Road Campus as they waited for the institution’s management to attend the scheduled meeting between the two parties.
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/ 12 October 2007
An underground system to deal with waste disposal was launched in Johannesburg on Friday. New rubbish bins encased within metal frames of about five cubic metres were introduced to the inner city as part of the Sisonke Project sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology.
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/ 12 October 2007
Prominent human rights lawyer George Bizos (79) is in a stable condition at the Wits University Donald Gordon Medical Centre, the facility said on Friday. Client services manager Vernon Kinnear said Bizos was admitted on Monday with a gastrointestinal complaint. ”He is doing very well; he is even managing his diary from his hospital bed,” he said.
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/ 12 October 2007
The Dutch government will ban the sale of hallucinogenic mushrooms, a spokesperson for the Justice Ministry said Friday, rolling back one element of the country’s permissive drug policy after a series of well-publicised negative incidents. The decision will go into effect within several months, Wim van der Weegen said.
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/ 12 October 2007
Clinton Nassif, the former security chief of murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble, has turned state witness against Glenn Agliotti in a drug-dealing case. Nassif, who appeared in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges relating to drug dealing, entered into a plea bargain with the Scorpions.
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/ 12 October 2007
A bomb hidden in a cart of toys killed two children and wounded 17 others in a playground in northern Iraq on Friday, the first day of a national holiday to celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The attack came the day after United States forces killed nine children and six women in an air strike north-west of Baghdad.
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/ 12 October 2007
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Democrat Al Gore and the United Nations climate panel on Friday intensified pressure on the former United States vice-president to launch a late bid for the presidency, but advisers said he is showing no signs of interest in the 2008 race.
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/ 12 October 2007
A South China tiger has been caught on camera by a hunter-turned-farmer, the first confirmed sighting for 30 years of a subspecies experts had feared was extinct in the wild, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Zhou Zhenglong took more than 70 snaps of the young tiger lying in the grass near a cliff.