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/ 24 September 2007
People without a memory cannot chart their past to the future, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said during Heritage Day celebrations.
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/ 24 September 2007
Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Burma’s capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago. ”People locked arms around the monks. They were clapping and cheering,” a witness said.
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/ 24 September 2007
Only -million out of a -million appeal has come in to help growing numbers of victims of Sudan’s worst floods in living memory, the United Nations said on Monday. Throughout Sudan, heavy rains have sparked flash floods and rivers have burst their banks, sweeping away tens of thousands of homes.
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/ 24 September 2007
Herdsmen who had been encroaching on a Ugandan game reserve that the queen of England is due to visit in November have started relocating after an ultimatum, wildlife officials said on Monday. The chief warden of Uganda’s second-largest natural park said that some of the Basongora tribesmen started moving out on Sunday.
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/ 24 September 2007
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Gauteng has nominated Gauteng finance minister Paul Mashatile for provincial chairperson, the league said on Monday. At an extended meeting of its provincial executive committee, the ANCYL agreed on a set of broad characteristics for the collective leadership.
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/ 24 September 2007
Several tornadoes hit central England on Monday, tearing roof tiles off houses and ripping branches from trees. One witness described the scene in Nuneaton in the west Midlands as ”absolute bedlam” and said the roofs had been ripped off a row of 10 to 15 houses. ”It only lasted a couple of minutes,” he said. ”It’s devastating.”
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/ 24 September 2007
Foreign students visiting Britain are to be educated in the etiquette of queuing for buses, after local users complained about them not observing the conventions of standing in line. A bus operator is to contact local language schools following several complaints about the behaviour of young students over the summer months.
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/ 24 September 2007
Madagascar’s ruling party has won all seats in the capital, Antananarivo, in legislative polls held at the weekend, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. President Marc Ravalomanana’s TIM (I Love Madagascar) party won in all six constituencies, setting it on a path to retain a majority in the 127-member Parliament.
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/ 24 September 2007
A man suspected to be the Umzinto serial killer has been arrested in Chatsworth, south of Durban, media reports said on Monday. The man allegedly strangled five women and dumped their bodies in a sugar plantation at Shayamoya on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.
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/ 24 September 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised a new drive to transform the health service and schools on Monday, but again failed to stamp out speculation he may call an early general election. He was to lay out his plans for "a fairer, stronger Britain" in his first speech as leader to the ruling Labour Party’s annual conference later on Monday.