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/ 20 September 2007
Controversial businessperson Charles Modise, being held in prison in Kimberley, said this week that he was arrested as part of a larger political conspiracy to discredit besieged Cosatu president Willie Madisha. He said in a fax from prison this week that he was arrested with the help of the head of the detectives in Gauteng, commissioner Norman Taioe.
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/ 20 September 2007
Less than a week after Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki unveiled his new party and embarked on a rigorous re-election campaign, the National Security Intelligence Service has leaked a damaging report, suggesting the president is headed for a resounding defeat in six out of the country’s eight provinces in the national polls set for December.
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/ 20 September 2007
An oppressive pall hangs over the Motala Heights informal settlement in Pinetown near Durban. It comes not from the dump site nearby the wood-and-iron houses nor from sewage, but rather from the clampdown on basic civil liberties — the freedom of movement and political association.
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/ 20 September 2007
For almost two decades, the Indian and Pakistani armies have fought a near-war along the freezing peaks of the Himalayas. But now the world’s highest battlefield is to become an adventure playground. The Indian army this week announced it would ”encourage mountaineering and trekking expeditions” across the Siachen glacier.
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/ 20 September 2007
Staff at Rhodes University are seething over the revelation that former vice-chancellor David Woods, who retired in April last year, received a covert gift of R1,67-million paid from university funds. This gratuity was over and above contractual obligations Rhodes had to Woods, such as cash payouts to him for leave untaken by the time he retired.
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/ 20 September 2007
Former director general of the National Intelligence Agency Billy Masetlha has warned that the existence of the Scorpions unit in its current form — outside the South African Police Service — remains a threat to national security and could lead to the country being infiltrated by foreign intelligence operatives. Masetlha also lashed out at his former boss, Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils
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/ 19 September 2007
It’s the kind of unfair situation that makes poorer nations wonder where the payoff is with free trade: demand for coffee, tea, cocoa, cotton and sugar — which is what many such countries have to offer the world — has risen. Prices paid in the supermarket have risen. Yet the share paid to the farmers who grow these basic agricultural commodities has fallen.
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Italy recorded their second unconvincing win in as many World Cup group-C matches when they were made to work hard for a 31-5 victory against minnows Portugal at the Parc des Princes in Paris on Wednesday. It was hard to believe that Italy had thrashed Portugal 83-0 as recently as October.
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On a night of high excitement and fireworks both on and off the field, India beat England by 18 runs in their Twenty20 World Championship Super Eight match at Kingsmead, Durban, on Wednesday evening. Helped by a dazzling innings from Yuvraj Singh, India, who won the toss, made 218 for four in their 20 overs.