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/ 15 November 2007
Piet Koornhof, who died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre on Monday at the age of 82, following a stroke, was a man of contradictions. Seen as a ”verligte” in successive apartheid-era Cabinets, the posts he accepted carried responsibility for some of apartheid’s most bizarre and inhumane policies.
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/ 15 November 2007
Matatiele residents were set to march through Pietermaritzburg on Thursday to the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in protest over their incorporation into the Eastern Cape. Matatiele-Maluti Mass Action Organising Committee chairperson Mandla Galo said that at least 45 minibus taxis had transported residents to Pietermaritzburg.
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/ 15 November 2007
Japan will launch satellite searches for rare metals with Botswana and South Africa in a global race to secure industrial resources, a minister said in an interview published on Thursday. Japan has a strong interest in platinum and other rare metals and minerals abundant in Africa.
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/ 15 November 2007
A white Zimbabwean farmer is set to go to court in Namibia next week over attempts by the Zimbabwean government to seize his land, the first case to be heard by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal. William Michael Campbell (75) faces criminal charges in Zimbabwe for failing to vacate his farm.
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/ 15 November 2007
Imran Khan, the cricketer turned opposition firebrand, was imprisoned on Wednesday under Pakistan’s draconian anti-terror laws, silencing another prominent critic as the emergency rule crisis deepened. His arrest came as the military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, defended the crackdown, in which at least 5Â 000 people have been detained.
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/ 15 November 2007
Nigerian police have killed 785 suspected armed robbers in the past three months and lost 62 of their own men, the national chief of police was reported as saying on Thursday. Human rights groups and United Nations experts have accused Nigerian police of killing robbery suspects instead of arresting them.
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/ 15 November 2007
A publisher has taken to Japan’s top court his eight-year fight over the banning of imported images of male genitals in a book of pictures by the late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Publisher Takashi Asai said he expected to win his case because the court had taken the step of agreeing to hear his appeal.
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/ 15 November 2007
Former Cabinet minister Dr Piet Koornhof has been cremated in Stellenbosch in what was apparently a hush-hush service, a media report said on Thursday. Koornhof died on Monday at the age of 82. This follows reports that Koornhof’s former partner, Marcelle Adams, who was planning to fly to Cape Town from Germany, cancelled her plans.
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/ 15 November 2007
The JSE continued to follow the downward trend in international markets at midday on Thursday, remaining firmly in the red. By 11.58am, the JSE’s all-share index lost 0,7%. The gold mining index gave up 0,8% and resources fell 0,7%, but the platinum mining index added 0,57%.
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/ 15 November 2007
Big Food was scrambling for cover this week with the announcement that the Competition Commission has proposed fining Tiger Brands a whopping R98-million for its participation in cartel behaviour in the bread and milling industries. The custodians of some of South Africa’s most popular food brands have been colluding on a national level to set prices in an attempt to remove competition from their market.