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/ 19 September 2007
Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa needs to explain the ”confusion” between his department and the National Lotteries Board (NLB), the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. While the department denied involvement in the 42,4% increase in performance bonuses at the NLB, board spokesperson Sershan Naidoo had contended Mpahlwa authorised the bonuses himself.
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/ 19 September 2007
The jury in the murder trial of Phil Spector declared that it was unable to reach a verdict yesterday after seven days of deliberation. The jury’s foreman told Judge Larry Fidler that it was hung on a seven-five vote. It was not revealed which way the majority on the jury was leaning.
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/ 19 September 2007
Thousands of Buddhist monks on Wendesday marched in protest against Burma’s military government one day after police fired warning shots and used teargas to disperse demonstrators. At least 2 000 monks turned out in the city of Sittwe, in north-west Burma, the scene of Tuesday’s clashes.
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/ 19 September 2007
Delegations from the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) met in Johannesburg on Monday. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the contents of a letter SABC group CEO Dali Mpofu sent to Sanef on August 31, announcing that the broadcaster had broken ties with the editors’ forum.
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/ 19 September 2007
A meteorite has struck a remote part of Peru and carved a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports. A fireball streaked across the Andean sky late on Saturday night and crashed into a field near Carancas.
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/ 19 September 2007
Judge Jeanette Traverso, hearing FirstRand’s urgent application for an interdict against the satirical magazine <i>NoseWeek</i> in the Cape High Court, said on Wednesday that there seemed to be little doubt that the tax-avoidance scheme at the heart of the case "is suspect".
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Brian Ashton may have entrusted the pivotal position of flyhalf to a man who has spent much of the past fortnight with his right foot in an ice bucket, but the England coach didn’t look like a man who’d taken a gamble when he unveiled his team to play Samoa. Fit-again Jonny Wilkinson returns and starts a Test with Olly Barkley at inside centre for the first time.
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/ 19 September 2007
Tropical storm Wipha lost much of its punch as it roared ashore over densely populated eastern China on Wednesday but continued to rake the region with heavy rains and high winds. The former typhoon had sparked the evacuation of more than two million people.
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Wallaby ace Stephen Larkham has some unfinished business as he targets a likely quarterfinal against holders England in his return from injury at the Rugby World Cup. The experienced playmaker has zeroed in on a last-eight return early next month as his comeback game from minor knee surgery.
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/ 19 September 2007
Bread queues snaked their way outside supermarkets in the Zimbabwean capital Harare on Wednesday, where few people appeared to have heeded a call by unions for a two-day general strike. Traffic was heavy in the city centre, with minibuses heavily-loaded. Most banks, shops and stores were open for business.