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/ 25 January 2007
Former Springbok captain Bob Skinstad was confirmed in the Sharks’ Super 14 squad as SA Rugby announced its five squads for the southern-hemisphere provincial rugby tournament on Thursday. Skinstad has not played serious rugby since 2003, but has come out of retirement in a bid to win a place in the Springbok World Cup squad.
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/ 25 January 2007
No dates have yet been set for the scrapping of taxis in Gauteng, Transport Department spokesperson Sam Monareng said on Thursday. Dates have also yet to be set for the destruction of old vehicles in the North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, he said. All Monareng could indicate was that dates would be announced ”soon”.
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/ 25 January 2007
South Africa captain Graeme Smith criticised the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday after an appeal by Herschelle Gibbs against a two-Test ban was turned down. Smith was speaking after it was announced that ICC appeals commissioner Richie Benaud had rejected Gibbs’s appeal against a ban imposed by match referee Chris Broad.
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/ 25 January 2007
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour is scheduled to appear before a parliamentary committee next week to explain how a high-profile prisoner escaped from the country’s most secure prison. Balfour has to explain how Annanias Mathe, who faced more than 50 charges, including murder and rape, escaped from C-Max last year.
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/ 25 January 2007
Criticism of the ritual slaughter of a bull by Tony Yengeni violates the Constitution, the Cultural, Religion and Linguistic Rights Commission said on Thursday. Of concern is South Africans’ ignorance of each others’ beliefs and practices, commission chairperson Mongezi Guma said. As a result, there is a tendency to undermine culture and religion.
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/ 25 January 2007
A United States navy ship has detected signals believed to be coming from the flight recorder of an Indonesian plane that went missing with 102 people aboard on New Year’s day, the US embassy in Jakarta said on Thursday. Wreckage from the missing Adam Air Boeing 737-400 started turning up in waters on the west coast of Sulawesi over recent weeks.
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/ 25 January 2007
The United States is expected this week to place two South African Muslims on its list of al-Qaeda suspects and will freeze their assets, diplomats in South Africa said on Thursday. The United States is also pushing to have Junaid Dockrat and his cousin, Farhad Dockrat, placed on a United Nations list of suspects tied to Osama bin Laden’s group as well as Afghanistan’s Taliban.
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/ 25 January 2007
South African commuters will be among the thousands of travellers set to be inconvenienced as British Airways on Thursday announced the cancellation of all its flights for two days next week from London’s Heathrow airport, and many from Gatwick, due to a planned strike by cabin crew.
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/ 25 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s government ”abandoned” its court case against Mail & Guardian chief executive Trevor Ncube on Thursday after it had prevented him at the end of last year from renewing his passport, claiming he was not a citizen of Zimbabwe.
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/ 25 January 2007
If you thought the shenanigans in the office of the parliamentary chief whip of the African National Congress couldn’t get any more entertaining, think again. The South African Broadcasting Corporation is to flight a 13-part television series next month, centring on a fictional chief whip and his ex-wife, also an MP in the party, in a story that includes blackmail, sex and lust for power.