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The South African National Defence Force could be called on to help expand South Africa’s antiretroviral-treatment programme, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka suggested on Tuesday. There is ”a role” for the force in helping roll out treatment because it is such a labour-intensive activity, she told a moral-regeneration conference in Cape Town.
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/ 30 January 2007
Reported attempts by police to prevent journalists from covering the court case of four police officers in Germiston are ”outrageous,” the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Tuesday. ”It was interference bordering on the unlawful in the work of journalists carrying out their legitimate duties covering the proceedings at an open-court hearing,” said Raymond Louw, convenor of Sanef’s media freedom committee.
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/ 30 January 2007
Former prisons chief Linda Mti has been appointed as head of 2010 Soccer World Cup security, the local organising committee confirmed on Tuesday. ”He took up his post in January,” spokesperson Tumi Makgabo said. Also on Tuesday, Gauteng police said that a case against Mti for alleged drunken driving had been struck off the court roll.
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/ 30 January 2007
Champion United States female boxer Laila Ali said on Tuesday that 88-year-old anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela reminded her of her father Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time. ”He is a very humble man and there is a lot of energy in the room; I could feel his spirit,” Ali said in Johannesburg, where she is due to fight a title match next month.
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/ 30 January 2007
The northern city of Manchester unexpectedly won the fight to host Britain’s first Las Vegas-style super casino on Tuesday, beating off challengers including nearby Blackpool and London’s Millennium Dome. Most industry analysts had predicted either Blackpool, the Dome or Glasgow in Scotland would win.
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/ 30 January 2007
After initially declining, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) on Tuesday accepted an invitation by Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana to attend a ritual ceremony where a bull will be slaughtered. ”As a leader of our country the minister is sure to uphold the law,” said SPCA executive director Marcelle Meredith.
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/ 30 January 2007
The resignation of veteran journalist John Perlman was accepted ”with regret” by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Tuesday. Perlman was recognised as one of South Africa’s top current-affairs radio anchors, SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement.
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/ 30 January 2007
New Zealand completed a comfortable 58-run win over England on Tuesday, all but guaranteeing themselves a place in the tri-series finals against Australia. Lou Vincent, Ross Taylor and Jacob Oram blasted half-centuries to help New Zealand post a record total of 318-7 on a perfect batting pitch in Perth.
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/ 30 January 2007
He’s blown up buildings in the name of justice and partied with Clint Eastwood. But Patrick Chamusso — the former rebel fighter who inspired the current Hollywood political thriller Catch a Fire — insists he’s an ordinary guy happiest tending to Aids orphans in the dusty hills near South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
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/ 30 January 2007
Chad President Idriss Déby Itno accused Sudan on Tuesday of waging a genocidal ”racial war” in Darfur and complained that African and international leaders were shying away from confronting Khartoum squarely on the issue. In an interview, Déby criticised what he called the world’s ”head in the sand” attitude over Sudan’s actions in its Darfur region.