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An Islamist website said on Friday it would soon show a new video of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on United States cities. The website published a still photograph apparently from the video, which showed bin Laden appearing older compared with available pictures.
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No issue must be ”taboo” for debate in South Africa if its people want to succeed with reconciliation and nation-building, African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. ”Debate in the country must be promoted,” Zuma said in delivering the annual public management commemorative lecture.
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Australia beat England at the 1991 Rugby World Cup final, but in the South Stand at Twickenham lurked a couple of fellows who held up a banner emblazoned with this motto: ”South Africa, the real World Champions”. As it turned out, the blazers of the International Rugby Board had met during the second World Cup to debate the re-entry of the Springboks into the international fold.
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It’s official: Your toddler is smarter than a chimp, at least at some things. A unique study comparing the abilities of human toddlers to chimpanzees and orangutans found that two-year-old children have social learning skills superior to the apes, researchers said on Thursday.
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/ 7 September 2007
COUNTERPOINT: Are black editors savages incapable of comprehending the intricacies of ”foreign” values such as press freedom? Thabo Leshilo reacts to Dali Mpofu’s withdrawal of the South African Broadcasting Corporation from the South African National Editors’ Forum.
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/ 7 September 2007
Recent events and political blunders by the three leading African National Congress (ANC) presidential candidates suggest the race is still wide open. Outsiders such as Cyril Ramaphosa, Kgalema Motlanthe and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma cannot be ruled out.
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/ 7 September 2007
The Mazda3 MPS looks frightfully civilised, but can let its hair down with a vengeance when the mood takes it. And there lies the rub. I suspect most people who buy a hooligan car would like it to have the odd body piercing, a tattoo here and there. The Mazda looks to my plebeian eye a little too highbrow and not enough Hillbrow, writes Gavin Foster.
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/ 7 September 2007
During the question-and-answer session at the launch of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class in Mpumalanga, a journo asked how he was supposed to fit all the info about the new model into a 750-word story. We all laughed and agreed that that was a challenge: trying to summarise how much the C-Class had changed and what it had to offer.
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A British diplomatic source in Harare has described reports that China is scaling down its presence in Zimbabwe as a "gross exaggeration". China has moved in to fill the vacuum left in Zimbabwe by the West and has signed a number of agreements and secured several trade deals.
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A 12-year study by the World Bank using new technology has found that African countries flare enough gas each year — 40-billion cubic metres (BCM) — to power half the continent’s electricity needs if put to productive use. Just one country, Nigeria, flares 23 BCM annually.