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/ 23 November 2006
It was the police themselves who handed Brett Kebble’s blood-spattered car to the mining magnate’s security company shortly after his murder, the Star reported on Thursday. The paper quoted private investigator Andre Burger as saying the Mercedes-Benz S600 was handed to him by investigating officer Captain Johan Diedericks.
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/ 23 November 2006
A Russian cosmonaut-turned-golfer took his game out of this world on Wednesday, knocking a ball from the International Space Station in a publicity stunt for a Canadian golf club manufacturer. Aired live on Nasa television, Mikhail Tyurin whacked the ball during a space walk outside the station after struggling to get into position with the help of a United States astronaut.
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/ 23 November 2006
The Roman Catholic church has taken the first step towards what could be a historic shift away from its total ban on the use of condoms. Pope Benedict XVI’s ”health minister” is understood to be urging him to accept that in restricted circumstances — specifically the prevention of HIV/Aids — barrier contraception is the lesser of two evils.
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/ 23 November 2006
The clearest government timetable yet for Britain’s withdrawal from Iraq was set out on Wednesday when the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, said she was confident Britain could hand control of the south of the country to Iraqi forces in spring.
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/ 23 November 2006
Between now and 2025, about 22 700 new passenger and freight aircraft valued at $2,6-trillion will be required by aircraft operators, according to the latest Airbus global market forecast. This represents an increase of about 5 400 aircraft compared with the previous forecast, Airbus noted.
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/ 23 November 2006
President Robert Mugabe’s fight against corruption is closing in on his closest confidants. The 82-year-old leader is in a quandary and is unwilling to pass a routine political directive for the arrest and prosecution of Zanu-PF officials allegedly involved in illegal foreign currency dealings.
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/ 23 November 2006
So much for the first week of democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Supporters of the losing presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba clashed with police and the army outside the Supreme Court in Kinshasa, where judges were deliberating his challenge. The judges were forced to flee the building when it was set alight. There can be no more graphic symbol of a lack of respect for the nascent system than this.
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/ 23 November 2006
They neither carry weapons nor lay ambushes for soldiers in Iraq or in Afghanistan. But thousands of radical Islamists are waging a different kind of war from behind their computers, called ”electronic jihad”. These radical Islamic sites have sprung up over the past few years, specialising in the organisation and the coordination of concerted cyber-attacks against Israeli, American, Catholic and Danish websites.
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/ 23 November 2006
The allegations against Mbulelo Goniwe are but a horsefly on the ass of the ANC, says Smuts Ngonyama. ”Mistakes do happen,” he said this week, ”but that does not mean that will change the image of the party. The party is too big to be affected by one person’s mistakes.” Apparently one person by the name of Jacob Zuma has been forgotten.
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/ 22 November 2006
What do a transsexual, a 12-year-old prostitute and a teenage kugel from Johannesburg’s well-off northern suburbs have in common? They are all customers of Tony Marks, a taxi driver who has been crawling the streets of Sandton for a decade, 40 to 50 hours a week.