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Gorillas, China’s baiji dolphin, Asian vultures and Pacific corals on Wednesday joined the list of species hurtling to oblivion as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warned of a fast-track ”global extinction crisis”. In an update of its famous Red List of biodiversity, the Swiss-based IUCN said it had identified 41 415 species at threat.
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/ 12 September 2007
The state on Wednesday urged Judge Leona Theron to hand down the maximum sentence possible for three men found guilty of rape as none of the three men could be expected to be rehabilitated. The men raped three Durban women at a beach house in Pennington, south of Scottburgh, on December 29 last year.
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Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu vehemently denied on Wednesday that she was contemplating forced removals from Cape Town’s troubled Joe Slovo settlement. But in the same breath she said she had instructed her department ”to investigate legal avenues to compel residents of informal settlements to make way for housing developments”.
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Farmers who evict tenant workers illegally will have their land expropriated, Deputy Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit warned on Wednesday. ”Those people who don’t want to hear, we are not only going to take them to court, we are going to also take their land away from them,” he told MPs in the National Assembly.
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Shahid Afridi smashed 22 off seven balls and then grabbed 4-19 as Pakistan brushed aside Scotland by 51 runs in the Twenty20 World Championship in Durban on Wednesday. The pugnacious all-rounder ensured his team faced no hiccups after Craig Wright had taken three wickets to restrict Pakistan to 171-9 at the Kingsmead.
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/ 12 September 2007
Thanks to floor-crossing, the African National Congress (ANC) has at last secured a clear two-thirds majority in the Morkel family. The decisive moment came on Wednesday when the last of the Morkel brothers, Craig, joined the party. But the patriarch, former premier Gerald Morkel, has no intention of following in his sons’ footsteps.
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Southern Africa urgently needs to invest in its energy sector to be able to provide its growing populations with electricity and the means for economic development, a senior Namibian energy official said on Wednesday. ”Southern Africa is running dry,” Siseho Simasiku, the head of Namibia’s Electricity Control Board, said.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has condemned the absence of ”working-class representatives” on the final list of names for the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board approved by the National Assembly’s communications committee.
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Two more soldiers have died in Lebanon’s military operations against the Fatah al-Islam militia, bringing the death toll to 165 troops, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”One soldier died from wounds on Monday, while another one was killed by a landmine on Tuesday,” he said.
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A powerful earthquake measuring 8,2 struck Indonesia’s Sumatra region on Wednesday, followed by a 6,6-magnitude later in the day, triggering tsunami warnings in the Indian Ocean and sparking panic in coastal areas across South-East Asia and at least one death.