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Improved housing and shopping facilities were among the promises made when President Thabo Mbeki hit the campaign trial on the Cape Flats on Tuesday, ahead of the March 1 municipal election. First stop was the home of 82-year-old Macassar resident Lilly Jansen in Krymekaar Street — the oldest street in the low-income suburb.
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/ 21 February 2006
President Robert Mugabe turned 82 on Tuesday and was showered with praise and birthday wishes despite Zimbabwe’s mounting economic woes. The state daily <i>Herald</i> published a 16-page supplement of pictures of Mugabe and congratulatory messages while the private <i>Daily Mirror</i> dedicated eight pages to his birthday.
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/ 21 February 2006
The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has confirmed that gay people are still not permitted to donate blood — this after it agreed to a study of the South African gay population during a meeting held with gay and lesbian organisations last week. Until the study is completed, ”the status quo will remain”, the SANBS said.
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/ 21 February 2006
The current strike by Transnet workers was misguided and had no clear objectives, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Tuesday. He said there had been ”more than enough opportunity” for consultation on the structure of Transnet.
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/ 21 February 2006
With few physical clues to the whereabouts of an escaped show dog, the hunt for the award-winning whippet has entered the spiritual realm, according to a media report. About 12 psychics are counseling searchers as they check the heated cargo buildings at John F Kennedy Airport where Vivi escaped from a travel cage.
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/ 21 February 2006
After almost four years in Perth, Australia, my stay was nearing its end and I had a problem. Being an avid second-hand book shopper, my collection was fairly impressive and I was well aware that exorbitant shipping costs were going to restrict the number of parcels I could send home.
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/ 21 February 2006
Wallaby winger Wendell Sailor returned home in disgrace from the NSW Waratahs’ rugby tour of South Africa on Wednesday saying the nightclub incident that led to his early departure was a low point in his career. Sailor has already incurred a one-match ban and a fine from team authorities after he reportedly pushed a man to the ground outside a Cape Town nightclub.
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/ 21 February 2006
A university in Poland has banned an exhibition of T-shirts bearing slogans such as "I didn’t cry when the Pope died" and "I’ve got Aids," saying the show was too provocative, press reports said on Tuesday. "The texts printed on the T-shirts could have offended the feelings and beliefs of many people," said Wieslaw Kaminski, president of UMCS University.
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/ 21 February 2006
Nigerian authorities hunted for nine foreign workers being held as ”human shields” by rebel fighters on Tuesday as the crisis in Africa’s biggest oil industry forced world oil prices up sharply. The nine oilmen were seized on Saturday by separatist guerrillas during an attack on the energy giant Shell’s Forcados oil terminal.
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/ 21 February 2006
Militants holding nine foreign oil-worker hostages called on Tuesday for independent negotiators to mediate among the hostage-takers and a Nigerian federal government they deem illegitimate. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said there have been no negotiations so far for the liberation of the hostages taken on Saturday.