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An elephant cow in the Pilanesberg nature reserve first chased a game warden for 100m, tore his pants open with her tusk, then ”played a bit of soccer with him”, a media report said on Wednesday. When he landed on his back next to her she stared into his eyes for a few seconds, then shook her head and ambled away.
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Opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma said he had won Sierra Leone’s presidential election but the ruling party accused him of trying to ”steal” the poll as more results were due on Tuesday from the tense weekend vote. Partial official results from just over a fifth of polling stations showed Koroma, of the All People’s Congress party, leading with 64%.
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/ 11 September 2007
The policy of affirmative action in South Africa will remain, despite calls from some labour unions to end it, the chief executive of Business Unity South Africa told Parliament on Tuesday. Since the end of apartheid, the government has targeted black South Africans, women and the disabled for preferential treatment when it comes to jobs which they previously had no access to.
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The African National Congress leadership contest can make or break the tripartite alliance, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday. The warning comes in draft policy documents to be discussed at the trade-union federation’s central committee meeting, which takes place in Esselen Park next week.
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World Cup heroes Jonny Wilkinson and Lawrence Dallaglio have been left out the England team to play South Africa in their Pool A match at the Stade de France on Friday. Flyhalf Wilkinson missed the opening match against the United States with an ankle injury but Dallaglio played at number eight. Both men were in the winning World Cup final team four years ago.
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Taxi violence is disturbing and must be curbed in order to build confidence in the taxi industry, the Gauteng registrar for public transport said on Tuesday. ”We all come to the point of saying enough is enough and let us stop the carnage. Let us all bring back confidence in the taxi industry,” Sam Ledwaba told a media conference in Johannesburg.
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Opec was meeting on Tuesday to consider a modest rise in oil output proposed by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states in a gesture to consumers worried by the economic impact of oil and rapidly diminishing stocks. But the plan to add 500 000 barrels per day of oil had yet to convince all Opec ministers.
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Nearly a decade since Humphrey was shown the door to 10 Downing Street, the prime ministerial house has a cat in residence again. Sybil, named after Basil’s wife in the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers, has moved down from Edinburgh with Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and his family who are living in the three-bedroomed flat above number 10.
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The National Assembly’s communications committee on Tuesday recommended 12 names for the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board, including six current board members. The six are Alison Gilwald, Andile Mbeki, Fadila Lagadien, Khanyisile Mkhonza, Christine Qunta and Ashwin Trikamjee.
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Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people left homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India’s north-east rose to 3,5-million. About 10-million people out of the 27-million population of Assam state have been affected by flooding after rains in the past few days.