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/ 30 January 2006
Spanish police have detained about 200 African undocumented immigrants in the biggest such swoop this year, press reports said on Monday. The north and sub-Saharan Africans were captured off Almeria and Granada on the southern coast as well as the Canary Islands after arriving on five boats over the week-end.
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/ 30 January 2006
Natal provincial division Deputy Judge President Thabane Jali has resigned and will probably vacate his chambers at the end of February, Judge President Vuka Tshabalala said. ”He has got a better offer — in the private sector I think,” Tshabalala told the South African Press Association.
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/ 30 January 2006
Despite reaching a record high in early trade, the JSE was in the red at midday on Monday due to profit-taking following the bourse’s strong run last week. A weaker rand pared the bourse’s losses, however. By 12.04pm, the all-share index was down 0,2% at 19 679,31 — well off its all-time high of 19 873,609 reached earlier.
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/ 30 January 2006
The founder and first chairperson of Radio Pretoria, Mossie van den Berg, died in hospital on Sunday. Van den Berg, a leading figure in conservative Afrikaner church and cultural circles, was born on November 13, 1926, on the farm Kinkelspruit in Lichtenburg.
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/ 30 January 2006
A frustrated doctor has closed his medical practice in a small northern New Zealand seaside settlement and plans to reopen his surgery as a brothel next month. Neil Benson closed his Cooper’s Beach practice last year, complaining of a lack of support from health authorities, other doctors and the community.
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/ 30 January 2006
South Africa and Sri Lanka are bracing for a make-or-break encounter when they clash in Tuesday’s triangular series limited overs match in Perth with Australia already sewing-up one of the two finals berths. South African skipper Graeme Smith said Monday that his team were treating the match as their most important of the tour.
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/ 30 January 2006
The trial of alleged baby killer Dina Rodrigues and her four accomplices is set to start in the Cape High Court on Monday. Rodrigues, Sipho Mfazwe, Bongezi Bobotyane, Zanethemba Gwada and a 16-year-old youth are accused of slitting the throat of six-month-old Jordan-Leigh Norton.
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/ 30 January 2006
Local government elections in Cape Town may be delayed if the dispute over the African Christian Democratic Party’s (ACDP) registration in the metropole is not resolved amicably, the party warned on Monday. The ACDP is talking to the Independent Electoral Commission about its payment to contest all Cape Town districts and municipalities, and whether the metro was included in this payment.
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/ 30 January 2006
Threats to destabilise the Philippine government of President Gloria Arroyo still remain despite the arrest of a renegade military officer, a military spokesperson said on Monday. Although he would not give details, Lieutenant Colonel Tristan Kison said a shadowy group had been trying to recruit junior officers.
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/ 30 January 2006
The Durban and Richards Bay ports were running at 60% and 50% capacity respectively on Monday as unions embarked on a strike at Transnet. The United Transport and Allied Trade Union said about 15Â 200 workers from all four unions involved in the dispute over restructuring were on strike at both ports.