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Police have made no breakthroughs yet in the murder of a Pretoria woman found in the boot of her boyfriend’s car over the weekend. Marlene Mauer (20), of Erasmia, east of Pretoria, appeared to have been killed by several blows to her head with a blunt object, said Inspector Lucas Sithole.
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/ 13 February 2006
The Constitutional Court will decide on Tuesday whether it can be directly accessed by the Matatiele municipality and others over a demarcation dispute. The municipality wants the court to rule on the constitutionality of the Twelfth Constitutional Amendment and the Cross-Boundary Municipalities Laws Repeal and Related Matters Act.
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A 35-year-old Blue Bulls rugby player was arrested early on Monday morning when he drove into a police vehicle near the Petroport, north of Pretoria, police said on Monday. ”He was so drunk he could not even stand properly,” police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramatoko said.
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/ 13 February 2006
Baby Jordan Leigh Norton’s biological father, Neil Wilson, burst out in tears when he heard that the child had been murdered, a former friend of his told the Cape High Court on Monday. Arendene Fourie said she had been good friends with Wilson, his then girlfriend, Dina Rodrigues, who is now on trial for the murder, and the infant’s mother, Natasha Norton.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on the world’s powerful nations to act immediately to help Africa extricate herself from problems like conflict, famine and disease. Speaking on M-Net’s Carte Blanche programme, Blair said it was high time that the world’s major players stopped debating Africa’s problems.
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/ 13 February 2006
The first British troops to arrive in southern Iraq in March 2003 may not have been sure what kind of reception awaited them, but they were left in no doubt as to how to treat the city’s residents. ”When you go in and sort out an urban area, you are not out to break the china,” said Air Marshal Brian Burridge.
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Tottenham let in an 89th-minute equaliser on Sunday to draw 1-1 at Sunderland, missing the chance to move further clear of local rivals Arsenal in the Premier League standings. In Sunday’s other game, Joey Barton scored one goal and set up two more in Manchester City’s 3-2 win against Charlton.
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Antoine Deneriaz won the marquee event of the Winter Olympics on Sunday with a surprising late run to upstage the Austrians and Americans in the men’s downhill. Unsurprisingly, Michelle Kwan withdrew from the Games, ending her decade-long quest for gold. Armin Zoeggeler gave Italy their first golden moment with victory in the luge.
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Banks in Zimbabwe must not enter into contracts with white commercial farmers without asking the government first, the official Sunday Mail reported. National Security Minister Didymus Mutasa said some financial institutions were ”denying new [black] farmers loans … on the basis that the white commercial farmers had title deeds of the farms as collateral,” the paper reported.
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Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe demanded to know what corruption and rape had in common as he heard an application for his own recusal from the rape trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Monday. Herman Broodryk, a member of the prosecution team, said Ngoepe had not made a credibility finding about Zuma when he granted the search warrants.