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/ 26 September 2007
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has threatened to take court action if lawyer Christine Qunta is reappointed to the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). TAC leader Zachie Achmat said Qunta’s involvement in a company selling untested medicines purporting to cure HIV/Aids disqualified her from occupying public office.
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/ 26 September 2007
General Motors South Africa is "relieved" that the two-week-old strike in the motor-component industry has ended. Several South African motor manufacturers were badly affected by the strike, which forced them to shut down production facilities due to a lack of parts. The strike ended on Tuesday evening.
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/ 26 September 2007
Troops fired shots over the heads of a large crowd in central Yangon on Wednesday, sending people scurrying for cover as a crackdown intensified against the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years. Security forces also fired tear gas at columns of monks trying to push their way past barricades sealing off the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma’s holiest shrine.
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/ 26 September 2007
China’s huge Three Gorges Dam hydropower project could spark environmental catastrophe unless accumulating threats are quickly defused, senior officials and experts have warned. Dam officials warn that areas around the dam are paying a heavy, potentially calamitous environmental cost.
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/ 26 September 2007
The JSE was steady at midday on Wednesday, unmoved by the release of local CPI and CPIX data which was in line with market expectations. By noon, the JSE’s all-share index had collected 0,52% as the gold-mining index advanced 1,22%. The platinum-mining index added 0,95% and financials climbed 0,68%.
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/ 26 September 2007
South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday he was ”devastated” by the human rights abuses of President Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe. Tutu said he struggles to understand how Mugabe changed so drastically after steering the country to independence in 1980.
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/ 26 September 2007
Fernando Torres scored three goals on Tuesday to lead Liverpool to a 4-2 English League Cup win at Reading, while Arsenal also reached the fourth round with a 2-0 win over Newcastle. Manchester City, Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Cardiff, Luton and Blackpool were the other teams to advance.
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/ 26 September 2007
The head of African miner Randgold Resources on Tuesday said net profit in its third and fourth quarters should be in line with the first-quarter level, citing higher bullion prices. Randgold, whose gold mines are mostly based in West Africa, posted first-quarter net profit of ,7-million.
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/ 26 September 2007
Burma security forces sealed off Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 80 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years. Witnesses said some of the deeply revered Buddhist clergy were beaten by riot police taking them away from the shrine.
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/ 26 September 2007
Film producer Johan Heyns (58) was in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Fourways north of Johannesburg after being shot in the pelvis at his Bryanston home on Sunday night. ”He was already brushing his teeth when he saw a man in a red shirt with him in the bathroom,” said his wife, Sue Heyns.