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South African Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said on Thursday that while he was made newsmaker of the year on Wednesday night, it was the economy in the past year that was actually newsmaker of the year. However, he added that there are still many things that need to be done, with education one of the biggest challenges going forward.
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/ 7 September 2006
Security forces have arrested more than 90 Egyptians in the north of the country suspected of links to radical Islamist groups, a lawyer representing them said on Thursday. A group of 70 people was arrested in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, while another group was detained in the Nile Delta town of Damanhour, the lawyer, Mamdouh Ismail, said.
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/ 7 September 2006
Hundreds of patients are forcibly held in Burundi’s hospitals — sometimes for months — over unpaid bills and many have to sell prized land or cattle to leave, a human rights report said on Thursday. Health care for mothers and children under five is free in the tiny Central African country whose shattered economy is emerging from more than a decade of ethnic conflict.
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/ 7 September 2006
No Ugandan rebels have arrived yet at remote camps in south Sudan where they are supposed to assemble under the terms of a landmark truce that began last week, Ugandan negotiators said on Thursday. According to the deal that came into effect on August 29, Lord’s Resistance Army fighters were given three weeks to gather at the two locations.
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/ 7 September 2006
This is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind.” Thus said United States president Bill Clinton as he welcomed the unveiling of the draft sequence of the human genome — the decoding of the three billion ”letters” of DNA in our cells — in March 2000.
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/ 7 September 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will step down early in May next year after a revolt by disenchanted supporters campaigning for him to end almost 10 years in office, British media reported on Thursday. Asked to comment on the reports, a spokesperson for Blair’s office said: ”People should not get ahead of themselves and should wait to hear if or what the prime minister has to say.”
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/ 7 September 2006
The JSE was taking a pummelling in noon trade on Thursday following a sell-off in equity markets globally. A sharply weaker rand — which was at its worst levels in almost 11 weeks — helped cushion the blow to an extent. By 12.11pm, the all-share index slipped 1,01%. Resources retreated 1,16%, the gold-mining index tumbled 2,8% and the platinum-mining index lost 0,78%.
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/ 7 September 2006
Orlando Pirates of South Africa return to the scene of their greatest triumph when they face Asec Mimosas of Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday in the African Champions League. Held at home in the 1995 final, the Buccaneers stunned a capacity crowd at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan by winning the return match 1-0.
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/ 7 September 2006
The Blue Bulls Rugby Union will start a rugby college with the goal being to broaden the basis of underage amateur and professional rugby and to strengthen club rugby in the province. Students will enrol for one or two years with their base being at Loftus Versfeld and will be exposed to the professional coaching and conditioning structures.
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/ 7 September 2006
Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has accused Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson of stabbing him in the back. Van Nistelrooy left Old Trafford for Real Madrid in the summer in a £10,5-million transfer following a highly publicised rift with Ferguson.