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/ 13 December 2005
South African government officials at the highest level would not be drawn on Monday evening on reports that South African spy Aubrey Welken would be brought home from Zimbabwe on Tuesday. Welken was arrested by Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Organisation operatives at Victoria Falls on December 10 2004.
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/ 13 December 2005
A strong tremor triggered panic on Tuesday among survivors of October’s earthquake disaster in South Asia, forcing people out of temporary shelters and into the freezing Himalayan winter. Witnesses said it felt like the strongest tremor since the disastrous 7,6-magnitude earthquake on October 8.
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/ 13 December 2005
If you want to enter terrain so wildly out of date that mere mention of it has become taboo, then you’ve come to the right place. Brace yourself. In October, two bankers strode into Umbaba, one of London’s most modish watering holes and asked the bartender to fix them a drink. Not any drink, you understand, but the most expensive cocktail he could concoct.
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/ 13 December 2005
More than a year ago, Inter Press Service (IPS) profiled several of the women who had won seats in Malawi’s Parliament, something that enabled them to break new ground in the drive to make the legislature less of male-dominated forum.This month, IPS decided to catch up with some of the women again. Had their experiences in Parliament lived up to expectations — or down to apprehensions?
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/ 13 December 2005
More than six months after the hearing, the Constitutional Court finally brought some Christmas cheer when it handed down judgement in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie. The length of time the court took to decide on the constitutionality of gay marriages led many to believe that the court was divided, and that conflicting judgements would be handed down.
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/ 12 December 2005
Two South African aircrew stranded in Equatorial Guinea will return home in a few days time, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. ”The two are coming home. We are not sure when. It will be in a few days time,” said Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota.
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/ 12 December 2005
Lawyers for Trevor Ncube, owner of the Mail & Guardian, filed an urgent application in the Zimbabwe High Court on Monday against that country’s relevant authorities to explain why his passport was confiscated last week.
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/ 12 December 2005
As motorists struggled to find petrol on Monday, the government denied any fuel shortages inland. The situation inland constituted ”an inconvenience rather than a crisis”, and motorists should not wait for their tanks to empty before filling up, Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks told reporters in Pretoria.
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/ 12 December 2005
The Democratic Alliance believes the Cabinet failed to muster a pass in 2005 and performed, on balance, worse than last year, party leader Tony Leon said on Monday. In the DA’s assessment, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was again the worst performer, while Finance Minister Trevor Manuel performed the best.