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/ 13 December 2005

‘Hoax e-mail’ court bid put on ice

An application for the setting aside of an arrest warrant for an information technology consultant implicated in an alleged National Intelligence Agency hoax e-mail scam was put on ice on Tuesday. The application was removed from the Pretoria High Court’s urgent roll by consent of all the parties involved.

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/ 13 December 2005

Rwandan ex-officer jailed for genocide

A United Nations-backed tribunal on Tuesday convicted a former senior Rwandan army officer of playing a major role in the country’s 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, officials said. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found ex-colonel Aloys Simba guilty of genocide and extermination.

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/ 13 December 2005

Cross-border Bill gets the nod

The National Assembly on Tuesday approved legislation giving effect to the Constitution’s Twelfth Amendment that abolishes cross-boundary municipalities. This affects 17 municipalities, including the contentious ones of Merafong (Gauteng to North West) and Matatiele (KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape).

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/ 13 December 2005

Khayelitsha a world leader

A low-cost housing project in the Western Cape is the only African project to receive funding from developed countries for its role in reducing greenhouse gases. The Kuyasa project, in Khayelitsha near Cape Town, attracted great interest at the Montreal climate change conference recently because it is the kind of project delegates hope will be replicated in other countries.

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/ 13 December 2005

WTO summit opens amid protests

World trade ministers on Tuesday began talks to salvage free-trade negotiations amid little hope for a major breakthrough, as thousands of protesters denounced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an enemy of the poor. Ministers will spend the next six days trying to salvage the Doha Round of trade negotiations.

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/ 13 December 2005

The Depression in full colour

For those too young to have lived through them, it can feel like the Depression and World War II happened in black and white. So, the brilliance in a trove of rarely seen colour photographs of the era is startling: a female railroad worker sports a red kerchief and matching nail polish; factory rows of B-25 bombers sprout like yellow corn.

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/ 13 December 2005

Rudolph helps SA warm up in Perth

Jacques Rudolph hit an unbeaten double century in a drawn match on Tuesday against Western Australia A in South Africa’s final warm-up match before Friday’s first of three cricket Tests against Australia. Jacques Kallis continues to struggle with an elbow injury, and is in doubt for the first Test.