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/ 16 November 2005
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is not commenting on its efforts to seize R30-million of the assets of Schabir Shaik now that he has been granted leave to appeal his corruption conviction and sentence. Meanwhile, an application for the return of items seized during raids on premises linked to Jacob Zuma is likely to be heard in court next month.
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/ 16 November 2005
A commission of inquiry should be set up to assess the state of rail transport in Gauteng, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party said on Wednesday. They said such a commission should come up with proposals for overhauling the entire rail system.
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/ 16 November 2005
United States President George Bush arrived on Wednesday in South Korea ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders as a joint statement from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum sought to pressure the European Union into making more concessions on agricultural subsidies.
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/ 16 November 2005
Spot platinum on Wednesday afternoon surged to a fresh 25-and-a-half-year high of $990 a troy ounce on continued forceful fund-buying of the metal by the funds as well as Tuesday’s bullishly construed platinum group-metal review released by Johnson Matthey.
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/ 16 November 2005
Four people were killed and 45 wounded when a powerful car bomb triggered by Islamic rebels ripped through a busy intersection in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The morning rush-hour blast in Srinagar left people bleeding on the road and turned vehicles into twisted wrecks.
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/ 16 November 2005
Separated by six decades of bitter hostility, residents of the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir lined their heavily militarised frontier on Wednesday to wave and cheer as officials exchanged aid for victims of the massive quake that rocked the region last month.
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/ 16 November 2005
The huge security operation thrown up around an Asia-Pacific summit faced its first test on Wednesday — from a handful of housewives angry at United States President George Bush. Four middle-aged women, who unfurled banners and shouted slogans, were hauled away by riot police.
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/ 16 November 2005
The government acted against the will of the people of Merafong by passing a Bill in Parliament to incorporate the Gauteng town into the North West province, the South African Communist Party said on Wednesday. ”There’s nothing democratic about what is happening in Merafong,” SACP district secretary Nkosiphendule Kolisile said..
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/ 16 November 2005
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday attacked the United States at the opening of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, for monopolising the governance of the internet. Mugabe said the summit is supposed to engender confidence in internet users outside Europe and North America.
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/ 16 November 2005
Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 68 as South Africa overcame a fighting India by five wickets in Hyderabad on Wednesday to grab a 1-0 lead in the five-match limited-overs series. The victory took South Africa’s unbeaten streak to 20 matches and left them just one short of equalling Australia’s world record of 21 consecutive wins in 2003.