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A court in Zimbabwe on Monday provisionally barred the eviction of about 400 squatters from a suburb in the capital, Harare, a human rights lawyer said. Zvikomborero Chadambuka, of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, said the High Court in Harare ordered that his clients should not be evicted from Mbare suburb.
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A major security operation comes into effect at the Durban Magistrate’s Court at 4pm on Monday ahead of the appearance of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. Zuma will appear in court on Tuesday on two charges of corruption following the conviction and sentencing of his former financial adviser, Schabir Shaik.
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/ 10 October 2005
Johannesburg’s Metropolitan Trading Company (MTC) has dismissed allegations of billing chaos and looting levelled at it by stall holders of the Bree Street Market on Monday. This follows the protest closure of stalls at the market in the morning in a demand to see the MTC CEO to discuss a list of stall holders’ grievances.
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/ 10 October 2005
”The first thought that came to my mind was that someone is bulldozing our house,” wrote a blogger from Islamabad, Pakistan, close to the epicentre of Saturday’s massive South Asian earthquake that killed up to 40 000 people. Read what other bloggers from Pakistan experienced in the disaster.
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/ 10 October 2005
A Malawian woman dies every hour during childbirth or complications during the process, the country’s health minister said on Monday, adding that the situation is ”tragic and obscene”. ”There must be something we are doing wrong,” Minister of Health Hetherwick Ntaba said.
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/ 10 October 2005
Police responding to an alarm at a cash-advance business in Darlington, South Carolina, say they found a naked man hanging from the ceiling. An officer answering the alarm noticed tiles, insulation, wires and metal braces hanging from the roof and on the floor of the Check ‘n Go, Police Lieutenant Danny Watson said.
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/ 10 October 2005
Robert J Aumann, an Israeli-American citizen, and American Thomas C Schelling on Monday won the 2005 Nobel Economics Prize for using game theory to explain conflict resolution. Using game theory, the laureates focused on why some people and countries manage to cooperate, while others suffer from conflict.
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/ 10 October 2005
Conservative leader Angela Merkel said on Monday she will be the next chancellor of Germany at the head of a coalition uniting the country’s two main parties, and will focus on reviving the economy. "The union will occupy the chancellery," Merkel said, in a reference to her Christian Democratic Union.
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/ 10 October 2005
The man accused of murdering missing constable Frances Rasuge laid a charge of conspiracy to commit murder against her after he was told she wanted him dead, Mmabatho Circuit Court heard on Monday. In previous testimony, William Nkuna told the court he had believed Rasuge was incapable of ordering his death.
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The African National Congress has reaffirmed its support for its embattled deputy president, Jacob Zuma, and has called on its members and structures to back him too. Zuma is expected to make his second appearance in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on two charges of corruption.