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/ 19 December 2005
The final phase before the announcement of the 2006 South African Car of the Year will take place middle January next year, when 24 of the country’s top motoring journalists and their assistants will take to the road and track to determine the winning car.
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/ 19 December 2005
"Maybe I’m just an eccentric, but I have a thing about small, affordable cars. They get the job done well enough most of the time, you can have fun driving them hard without getting into too much trouble with the law, and they’re a breeze when squeezing in and out of parking bays," writes Gavin Foster.
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/ 19 December 2005
Most journalists don’t have much fashion sense. Asking a journalist what’s in or what’s cool to wear this season is about as wise as asking Dubya how to make the world a peaceful place. My lack of fashion sense was highlighted with the arrival recently of the Mercedes-Benz SLK 55.
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/ 19 December 2005
Twelve customs and immigration officials have been sent to the Beit Bridge border post to help the handful of officials dealing with hundreds of frustrated travellers. Some travellers said they had been waiting more than 24 hours at the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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/ 19 December 2005
Residents of Khutsong will hold a meeting on Monday following the lifting of a ban by police on public gatherings in the area. Violence erupted again in the troubled township, near Carletonville, last week when residents protested against the National Council of Provinces’ approval of legislation to do away with cross-boundary municipalities.
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/ 19 December 2005
Eleven people were killed and eight injured when lightning struck a church in northern Malawi where services were being held, hospital and church leaders said on Sunday. About 40 people had gathered in the Church of Central African Presbytery in Mzimba, about 300km north of the capital Lilongwe, when lightning struck on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 19 December 2005
The amount of cocaine seized by police has soared in recent years in Portugal, which officials say has become, along with neighbour Spain, a main gateway into Europe for the narcotic from Latin America. Police seizures of the drug jumped from around three tonnes in 2000 to 7,4 tonnes inn 2004, and as of the end of November authorities had discovered more than 17 tonnes of cocaine.
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/ 19 December 2005
Uganda’s detained opposition leader was expected to appear before a military tribunal and a civilian court on Monday for the start of two trials on charges that could result in a death sentence. But Kizza Besigye’s lawyers said they would not join him at the military court because Uganda’s High Court has ordered it to suspend the proceeding.
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/ 19 December 2005
A man was found mauled to death in the tigers’ enclosure at the Bloemfontein zoo on Sunday, said police. Captain Elsa Gerber said an adult visitor to the zoo raised the alarm when he saw a body lying in the enclosure of two tigers at noon. ”We don’t know who he is, how he got there, where he’s from or anything else,” she said.
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/ 19 December 2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spent a ”peaceful night” in hospital after suffering a minor stroke and his condition ”remained good”, government officials said on Monday. The 77-year-old would be examined by doctors in the morning at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, a statement from Sharon’s office said, not specifying when he was expected to leave hospital.