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/ 6 November 2007
Thousands cheered to the boom of a 21-cannon salute welcoming Spain’s king and queen to the North African enclave of Melilla on Tuesday, the second day of a trip that has seriously irked Morocco. The two-day visit is King Juan Carlos’s first as head of state to Ceuta and Melilla, North African cities that are remnants of Spain’s colonial empire.
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/ 6 November 2007
The United Nations has bailed out Sierra Leone’s national amputees’ football team with a cash boost that paves way for their participation in the World Cup tournament kicking off at the weekend in Turkey. Team secretary Kemoh Sheriff said the donation shows that ”we are not forgotten”.
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/ 6 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court, regarded as a handpicked ally of President Robert Mugabe, has backed controversial legislation that allows the government to take farm equipment belonging to white farmers, in the name of the regime’s often-violent campaign to seize white-owned land.
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/ 6 November 2007
Jomo Cosmos and Orlando Pirates clash in round eight of the Absa Premier Soccer League at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Wednesday night, and Owen da Gama wants his charges to take all three points. Pirates are 11th on the league table with nine points from seven outings, and Da Gama wants the best result against Cosmos.
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/ 6 November 2007
The mining industry does not knowingly and willingly send people into mines to die, Chamber of Mines outgoing president Lazarus Zim said on Tuesday. Speaking at the chamber’s annual general meeting, Zim said the mining sector shares concerns about the escalating accident and fatality rate at South African mines.
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/ 6 November 2007
The South African Reserve Bank said on Tuesday in its latest <i>Monetary Policy Review</i> that the breach of the 3%-to-6% inflation target is of "significant concern" to the monetary policy committee. The bank added that some of the key inflation risks have proved "persistent" since the previous review was published in May.
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/ 6 November 2007
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Tuesday in its latest <i>Monetary Policy Review</i> that in light of the risks around the subprime crisis in global markets, it is important to maintain a stable and transparent monetary policy regime. Authorities in some emerging markets have been advised to strengthen surveillance.
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/ 6 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki remains an ”Aids dissident” who has told a biographer that he regrets bowing to pressure from his Cabinet to ”withdraw from the debate” over the disease ravaging South Africa. According to a long-awaited biography by Mark Gevisser, the president feels aggrieved that he was deflected from continuing to question the causes of the epidemic.
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/ 6 November 2007
Ithafa Secondary School in Ermelo has won R60Â 000 in an annual Mpumalanga schools’ competition on global warming and climate change, the province’s department of agriculture and land administration said on Tuesday. Learners were competing in areas such as poster design, drama production and a model design.
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/ 6 November 2007
Very few prisons test newly admitted prisoners for contagious and communicable diseases such as tuberculosis or Aids, according to the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons’s 2006/7 annual report. The document also strongly criticises strip searches carried out on newly admitted prisoners.