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/ 8 February 2006
Readers in the Mail & Guardian Online‘s discussion forums have been sharply divided in the past week regarding the world’s reactions to the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that first appeared in a Danish newspaper last year. The M&G is the only South African newspaper to have printed one of the cartoons.
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/ 8 February 2006
One of Zimbabwe’s new ruling party senators has been picked up for questioning on suspicion of diverting scarce wheat to the lucrative parallel market, the state-controlled Herald reported on Wednesday. Wheat, like maize, is a controlled product but some producers complain they are not getting realistic prices for the commodity in Zimbabwe’s high-inflation environment.
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/ 8 February 2006
At least 12 people were killed and more than 20 injured when a blast ripped through a barracks for elite troops in Chechnya, Russian military and local emergency ministry officials said early on Wednesday. The explosion late on Tuesday collapsed the two-storey barracks of the Vostok Battalion in Kurchaloi in the east of the war-torn province.
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/ 8 February 2006
After the death of baby Jordan Leigh Norton, murder accused Dina Rodrigues told her boyfriend at the time that she paid R10 000 ”for all of it to go away”, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday. Rodrigues is accused of hiring four men to slit the throat of the infant in June last year.
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/ 8 February 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was "very welcome" at this weekend’s progressive governance summit, South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad said on Wednesday. "It is very important for Mr Blair to be here as leader of the British Labour Party … [although] we may disagree with him on some of his policies," said Pahad.
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/ 8 February 2006
Hosts Egypt are just one win away from a record fifth African Nations Cup title after they beat Senegal 2-1 in a riveting semifinal in Cairo on Tuesday. The Pharaohs will meet fellow group-A outfit Côte d’Ivoire — whom they beat 3-1 in the first round — in Friday’s showpiece after the Elephants edged Nigeria 1-0 earlier in the day.
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/ 8 February 2006
A double-decker bus was wedged into a balcony in downtown Johannesburg’s Pan Africa House on Wednesday morning after a crash with a taxi that left 12 people injured, emergency services said. In a second accident on Wednesday morning, 31 people were injured in a bus crash to the east of the city.
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/ 8 February 2006
Birmingham beat Reading 2-1 to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup on Tuesday, winning on a 67th-minute goal by Julian Gray. Preston beat Crystal Palace 2-1 in the other fourth-round replay with two goals by Daniele Dichio, including the winner in the 88th minute.
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/ 8 February 2006
JSE went down like a lead balloon on Wednesday morning after a oil-triggered sell off in commodities overnight sparked aggressive profit-taking in heavyweight resources stocks. Weaker world markets aggravated matters. By 12.01pm, the all share index slipped 1,69%. Resources slumped 3,01%, with the gold and platinum mining indices plunging 3,94% and 4,34% respectively.
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/ 8 February 2006
Biz Africa 1320, a Middelburg company that provides a number of services and products to the mining industry, has entered into a substantial black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction with a broad-based BEE consortium led by Sakhumnotho Mining, the company said in a statement this week.