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/ 19 January 2006
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Wednesday night took time out from the controversy surrounding her flight to the United Arab Emirates to open the Women’s World Cup of Golf, to be played at Sun City from Friday to Sunday. Mlambo-Ngcuka emphasised the role women have played in post-apartheid South Africa.
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/ 19 January 2006
Although a growing number of media directors and marketers are developing a newfound respect for the reach, frequency and inventiveness of the outdoor medium, some key obstacles will need to be carefully negotiated if growth trends are to continue. Can the industry and municipal authorities sideline renegade operators and entrench credibility? Kim Novick reports.
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/ 19 January 2006
Last year, there was a dramatic escalation in the number of pirate raids off the 3Â 008km Somali coast, from two in 2004 to 35. Pirates are currently holding a cargo ship and four fishing trawlers hostage. The attacks threaten trade and humanitarian aid — the Semlow was carrying sacks of rice for emergency food aid in Somalia.
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/ 18 January 2006
Palestine’s new ambassador to South Africa appealed to President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday for the country to continue its mediating role in the stagnated peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. ”South Africa has to continue playing its role in reviving the political process in the Middle East,” said Ali Halimeh.
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/ 18 January 2006
Iran on Wednesday started what it termed a ”close consultation” with South Africa on the dispute over its nuclear programme ahead of a key meeting of the United Nations atomic energy agency. ”Our countries have always had positive and constructive negotiations,” Iran’s acting foreign minister told reporters in Pretoria.
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/ 18 January 2006
Pay television channel M-Net has also turned down an interview with former state president PW Botha, spokesperson Lani Lombard said on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, e.tv said it had decided against broadcasting the interview because the production company, Thuthuka Productions, wanted too much for it.
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/ 18 January 2006
Tension was mounting on Wednesday in the city of Warri as soldiers hunted for a heavily armed militia that has attacked oil facilities in southern Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign workers. Boat crews and human rights activists said military forces have deployed in strength on the waterways of the Niger Delta.
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/ 18 January 2006
Three female employees of a dry-cleaning operation were put one by one and still alive into a large washing machine containing chemicals before being tied up and strangled, the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. The grizzly details of the murders were laid out by investigating officer Inspector Sello Molapisi.