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/ 23 January 2006
A building collapsed in central Nairobi on Monday while more than 280 workers were inside, leaving at least eight people dead, witnesses and construction workers said. More than 50 seriously injured people were rushed to hospitals, medics said. At the weekend, two buildings collapsed in Nigeria, killing at least 15 people.
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/ 23 January 2006
World oil prices on Monday soared above per barrel for the first time in more than four months, owing to global supply concerns, before easing on profit-taking, analysts and dealers said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, hit an intraday peak of ,20 — the highest level since September 1 last year.
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/ 23 January 2006
Provincial housing ministers should not blame a lack of funds for slow delivery when they fail to spend their full budget allocation, the chairperson of Parliament’s finance select committee said on Monday. ”Don’t … plead poverty,” Tutu Ralane told the housing ministers of four provinces who reported on their spending.
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/ 23 January 2006
Three more people were arrested for public violence during a service-delivery protest in Mabopane on Monday, bringing the number of arrests to 11, North West police said. Captain Thabo Makhafola said the arrests were made between 3am and 10am after a crowd of about 500 protesting poor service delivery turned violent.
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/ 23 January 2006
Three shabbily dressed men appeared in the Randburg Regional Court on Monday for the 1999 murder of Young Koo Kwon, the local president of the Daewoo Motor Corporation. Thomas Tshabalala (28), Bheki Simelani (29) and Mokwa Sedikane (32) were not asked to plead.
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/ 23 January 2006
Farmers and vegetable vendors in the Zimbabwean capital Harare are locked in a bitter turf war after the authorities closed down the city’s main outdoor market to stop the spread of cholera, local reports said on Monday. Thousands of small-scale farmers were left stranded earlier this month after they arrived at the popular Mbare Msika market to sell their fresh produce.
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/ 23 January 2006
The health department says inaccurate reporting of new cases of cancer in South Africa was making it difficult to fight the disease.
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/ 23 January 2006
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal has expressed shock at an Inkatha Freedom Party ultimatum to its councillors in the Umuziwabantu municipality on the South Coast to reinstate a suspended manager, or face dismissal. The IFP claims the ultimatum to its councillors was intended to ensure they follow procedure.
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/ 23 January 2006
Ore deliveries to Zimbabwe’s gold processors dipped by 40% last year because of rampant smuggling of the precious metal, the Southern African country’s Chamber of Mines said on Monday. Gold deliveries dropped to 13 000kg between January and November last year from 21 300kg in 2004.
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/ 23 January 2006
An independent Taiwanese parliamentarian has displayed his political clout by hosting 20 000 people at a wedding banquet for his son. Well-wishers on Saturday jammed a stadium in the coastal town of Shalu that was turned into a makeshift restaurant by legislator Yen Ching-piao.