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/ 9 February 2006
One of the 11 men accused of hijacking cigarette trucks became ”very religious” after a shooting incident that turned him into a paraplegic, a former member of the hijacking gang told the Cape High Court on Wednesday. Vernon Aspeling, who has turned state witness, gave the court a detailed account of the alleged hijackings.
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/ 9 February 2006
The yacht Moquini, which was found this week after being missing for six months, probably capsized, giving its crew little chance of survival. A private search was launched for the yacht when it went missing during the Mauritius-to-Durban yacht race in September last year.
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/ 9 February 2006
World veterinary experts on Wednesday raced to help Nigeria attempt to contain a bird-flu outbreak in the north of the country, as the arrival of the deadly H5N1 virus in Africa was confirmed. Its appearance on the world’s poorest continent has long been feared, given the potential for the disease to spread from infected birds to humans.
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/ 8 February 2006
The publication of Nova, the four-and-a-half-month-old daily newspaper from the Media24 stable based in Johannesburg, is to be suspended, a statement from Red Ink Publishing on behalf of Nova said on Wednesday. Nova was aimed at young, high-income urban professionals.
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/ 8 February 2006
The foreign minister of one Muslim country, Indonesia, says radical groups are exploiting genuine public anger over the prophet Muhammad cartoons for their own ends. A United States military spokesperson also says extremist groups may be inciting the protests.
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South Africans have been called on to join a picket in support of axed deputy president Jacob Zuma at the start of his rape trial in Johannesburg on Monday. The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust said about 5 000 people are expected to attend the picket outside the Johannesburg High Court.
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/ 8 February 2006
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) decision to send all its reports and resolutions on Iran to the United Nations Security Council was a ”regrettable turn of events”, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told MPs on Wednesday during debate on President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address.
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/ 8 February 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki has himself been frank about the failure of his ruling-party-controlled municipalities to deliver services, Cape Town’s Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate Helen Zille said in Parliament on Wednesday as opposition parties commented on Mbeki’s State of the Nation address last week.
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/ 8 February 2006
Newly set salaries, match appearance fees and performance bonuses have brought an end to Zimbabwe’s professional cricketers’ four-month strike. Sixteen of 23 players offered terms have signed new contracts, four are having medical assessments before getting their offers, two have declined and one has yet to make a decision.