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The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development is ”working around the clock” to re-arrest 13 accused who were freed when a Kimberley magistrate refused to work after 4pm, the department said on Wednesday. ”At the moment our priority is to get the 13 re-arrested or to summons them back to court,” said Rodney Isaacs, a chief director in the department.
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/ 13 September 2006
Springbok scrumhalf Neil de Kock has joined Saracens from South African side Western Province, the English Premiership club announced on Wednesday. Saracens’ director of rugby Alan Gaffney says the 28-year-old, capped 10 times for his country, was someone they had been tracking for some time.
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/ 13 September 2006
A group of South African youth leaders were deported from Zimbabwe after trying to enter the country on a fact-finding mission, the Zimbabwe Solidarity Forum said on Wednesday. This was in spite of having spoken to Harare’s Youth Development Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and having informed the Zimbabwe High Commission in South Africa of their intended visit, read a statement.
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/ 13 September 2006
Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for safety and security, Dumisani Ximbi, was rushed out of a public meeting last week after a warning of a plot to assassinate him, his office said on Wednesday. Ximbi’s spokesperson Wesley Douglas said the incident happened on Thursday evening, but was kept under wraps until the city’s VIP protection unit had completed a report.
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/ 13 September 2006
The leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa met on Wednesday to discuss a trade agreement between three of the world’s most vibrant emerging economies. The meeting is the first summit of the India, Brazil and South Africa Group, or IBSA, formed in 2003, as an informal group for political consultations between the three countries.
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/ 13 September 2006
Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and his son face a day of destiny on Friday as global football’s governing body investigates corruption and embezzlement accusations against the pair. They are both accused of making money through the illegal sale of World Cup tickets and Fifa is due to examine a report into the affair.
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/ 13 September 2006
Police raided houses on Wednesday in a major security crackdown in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish south-east, after a bomb blast killed 10 people, five of them children. It was the bloodiest attack in Turkey since suicide bombers killed more than 60 people in Istanbul in November 2003.
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/ 13 September 2006
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila met his chief election rival Jean-Pierre Bemba on Wednesday for the first time since poll-related violence in August, an official said. Kabila’s spokesperson Kudura Kasongo said the meeting took place in the context of a regular gathering between the president and his four deputies, of which Bemba is one.
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/ 13 September 2006
The implications would be ”grave” should the Western Cape provincial government succeed to alter Cape Town’s mayoral system, incumbent mayor Helen Zille said on Wednesday. ”It will undermine international confidence in the future of democracy,” she said.
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/ 13 September 2006
South African health authorities went on high alert on Wednesday after officials confirmed a case of a new, deadly strain of tuberculosis (TB) in Johannesburg, the country’s economic hub. Officials said the case, a woman, had refused to stay in hospital — stoking fears the TB strain could spread rapidly through communities already weakened by HIV/Aids.