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Four armed men robbed three foreigners on their way to a World Health Summit on the R21, Pretoria police said on Monday. Inspector Paul Ramaloko said the three delegates, two men and a woman from France, Germany and Nigeria, were on their way to Pretoria north to attend the summit on Sunday when a Hyundai bumped their Microbus from behind.
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/ 4 September 2006
Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson should apologise for invading First Lady Zanele Mbeki’s privacy, said Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday. Mlambo-Ngcuka called Gibson’s behaviour ”an invasion of Mrs Mbeki’s privacy and injurious to her dignity as a citizen”, said her spokesperson Thabang Chiloane in a statement.
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/ 4 September 2006
Free State provincial minister for safety and security Playfair Morule is facing a charge of culpable homicide after a man was killed in a hit-and-run accident, Free State police confirmed on Monday. ”An incident of culpable homicide is being investigated,” said Superintendent Annelie Wrench.
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/ 4 September 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Monday Lebanon and Israel have accepted his offer to mediate the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July. ”The two sides have accepted the effort of the secretary general to help solve this problem,” Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia.
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/ 4 September 2006
The United States and Iraq hope to sign an agreement by next week to hand operational command of Iraq’s new army to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, an aide said on Monday, after wrangles on wording had held up the accord. Transferring security from US-led forces to the Iraqi army it is training is key to Washington’s plans to withdraw its 140 000 troops.
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/ 4 September 2006
Australia’s coach John Connolly on Monday singled out the South African pack as the most impressive aspect of the Springboks’ revival against New Zealand in the Tri-Nations on the weekend. ”I thought it was a pretty solid performance by the Springboks,” Connolly said of Saturday’s match in Rustenburg, where the All Blacks were beaten 21-20.
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/ 4 September 2006
The thorny issue of white atonement for apartheid has been thrown under the South African spotlight after a former white hard-line minister washed the feet of a black preacher his forces once tried to kill. The furore erupted last month when it emerged that Adriaan Vlok, a minister of law and order under apartheid, had apologised to Reverend Frank Chikane, a prominent anti-apartheid activist.
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/ 4 September 2006
A countrywide Shoprite Checkers strike on Monday continued into its 48th day with no settlement to the workers’ disputes in sight, the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) said. ”There’s nothing much happening at the moment,” Michael Pau, Saccawu’s national chairperson, said.
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/ 4 September 2006
Pakistan have been told off by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for repeatedly making public comments about the events surrounding the final Test against England. Malcolm Speed, the ICC’s chief executive, has issued a final warning to the Pakistan team and management to stop issuing comments related to the controversial events.
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/ 4 September 2006
About 1 000 taxi passengers burned tyres and blocked off taxis on Monday in Chatsworth, Durban, in a protest against fares, the Daily News reported. Its website said the protesters — armed with sjamboks, stones and sticks — said a R1,50 taxi-fare hike would ”break their backs”.