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/ 28 February 2007
Just hours after being presented with the International Cricket Council ODI Shield for being the world’s top one-day international team, the Proteas set off on Wednesday to take part in the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean. Captain Graeme Smith said there will be 100% commitment from every member of the team.
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/ 28 February 2007
Fifa is confident that South Africa will ensure the safety of football fans during the 2010 World Cup, the world soccer body said on Wednesday. Fifa spokesperson Markus Siegler was addressing the 2010 Fifa World Cup media day held in Sandton. He said Fifa is aware of the social problems South Africa faces, and hopes the World Cup will help the country overcome them.
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/ 28 February 2007
There had been no political conspiracy to oust former National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha from his position, the Hatfield Community Court heard in Pretoria on Wednesday. Inspector General Zolile Ngcakani said the intelligence service does not resort to any method to make its staff leave their posts.
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/ 28 February 2007
The largest household-based survey undertaken to date by Statistics South Africa officially wrapped up on Wednesday. Survey workers had interviewed more than 232 673 families across the country — 85% of the total number of households sampled, said spokesperson Solly Kganyago.
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/ 28 February 2007
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is to exhume the remains of Looksmart Ngudle, the first security detainee to die under apartheid detention laws back in 1963. The authority began investigations last year to locate his remains at the request of Ngudle’s son, Siyanda, an NPA spokesperson said on Wednesday.
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/ 28 February 2007
Africa needs a ”fair break” from the rest of the world and the determination to address its own problems, former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday. In a lecture at the University of Pretoria, De Klerk said there is an unfair perception that Africa is lagging further and further behind in the global race.
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/ 28 February 2007
The African Union on Wednesday officially created a peacekeeping force of more than 1Â 500 South African troops for Burundi to help integrate the country’s last active rebel movement. The pan-African body has taken over from the United Nations in order to facilitate the integration of the Forces of National Liberation (FNL) into a broader peace process.
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/ 28 February 2007
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang remains in the high-care unit at Johannesburg Hospital, where her condition is improving, her spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”Her doctor indicated that she is getting better,” said Sibani Mngadi. ”However, she remains in the high-care unit of the hospital in order to facilitate appropriate haemodynamic monitoring.”
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/ 28 February 2007
An alternative beauty pageant to be held in a remote Icelandic town will reward contestants’ wrinkles, saggy breasts and other bodily imperfections and hopes to challenge Western ideas of beauty, organisers said on Wednesday. "Anyone can make the rules about what beauty is; we want to change the rules," one of the contest’s organisers, Matthhildur Helgadottir, said.
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/ 28 February 2007
While South Africa’s large trade deficit in January of R11,9-billion was in part due to seasonal factors, underlying trade conditions are probably set to get worse unless industrial-sector exports improve considerably, according to analysts. Once again the monthly trade balance shifted strongly into negative territory in January.