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/ 18 September 2006
Striking Shoprite Checkers workers will picket outside all the company’s stores on Tuesday, the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union said. ”We will continue with the strike,” the union’s national secretary Thoko Mchunu said on Monday. ”Our members will be back in picket lines outside all Shoprite outlets from tomorrow [Tuesday].”
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/ 18 September 2006
A car bomb killed five people and wounded several others outside Parliament in Somalia’s provincial capital Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt on President Abdullahi Yusuf. Six attackers were killed in a gun battle with Yusuf’s bodyguards after the blast, Foreign Minister Ismail Hurre Buba told a news conference in Nairobi.
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/ 18 September 2006
The elderly victim of a road-rage attack has died in an Alberton hospital, his family confirmed on Monday. Hospitalised for lung problems three weeks ago, Joe Duffy (83) broke his hip while in the Union Hospital, his daughter Jennifer Burgess said. His condition took a turn for the worse in the early hours of Sunday, and he died at 5.20am.
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/ 18 September 2006
Captain Brian Lara made 87 and opener Chris Gayle hit 79 as the West Indies defeated Australia by three wickets on Monday in the fourth one-day international of the DFL Cup one-day series. Chasing Australia’s 272-6 in 50 overs, West Indies made 273-7 in 47.2 overs.
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/ 18 September 2006
A senior control prosecutor was attacked and stabbed in her office in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Inspector Anton Breedt said the woman was working in her office when a man came in and stabbed her with a knife, before fleeing with her cellphone.
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/ 18 September 2006
The United States Capitol was shut down briefly on Monday after a man was arrested for racing past security into the building, Capitol police said. The suspect breached security with his car first and then got out and ran past guards into the building, Sergeant Kimberly Schneider said. He was captured just inside the building.
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/ 18 September 2006
The vigilance of staff has helped combat almost R1-billion in fraud at the Standard Bank since 1999, one of its directors said on Monday. Roy Ross was speaking at the company’s headquarters in Johannesburg, and congratulating the winner of R1-million in the bank’s Fraud Miles programme.
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/ 18 September 2006
A former Kurdish guerrilla fighter accused Saddam Hussein of poisoning him with chemical weapons strikes in testimony at the ousted Iraqi leader’s genocide trial on Monday. Karwan Abdullah Tawfiq took off dark glasses to show the swollen lids of his eyes, which he said were permanently damaged by nerve poison that had completely blinded him for six months.
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/ 18 September 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was eager to meet the newly created inter-ministerial committee on HIV and Aids, TAC spokesperson Nathan Geffen said on Monday. ”We very much want to meet the inter-ministerial committee and the deputy president [Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who is leading the committee],” Geffen said.
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/ 18 September 2006
A private hospital company will conduct free screenings for heart conditions to anyone visiting their facilities next Thursday. ”We want to make people aware of the risk factors associated with the development of cardio-vascular disease,” Netcare’s chief operations officer Ryan Noach said.