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/ 29 September 2005
John Roberts, President George Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, gained easy Senate confirmation on Thursday to become the United States high court’s 17th chief justice. Roberts was approved by a vote of 78 to 22, with all of the Senate’s 55 Republicans voting in lockstep to support the nominee.
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/ 29 September 2005
The prosecution of two Nigerian men who face the death penalty after being accused of sodomy suffered a setback on Thursday when a second police witness said that he had not actually seen the pair having sex. Police Constable Garba Umar was the second officer to admit that he had not witnessed the alleged act.
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/ 29 September 2005
Roger Federer polished his game at the expense of an outsider while Lleyton Hewitt was made to struggle into the quarterfinals of the  000 Thailand Open on Thursday. Top seed Federer put a bumpy start 24 hours earlier behind him, rushing past German unknown Denis Gremelmayr 6-3, 6-2.
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/ 29 September 2005
The proposed statue of Nelson Mandela for London’s Trafalgar Square has become a bone of contention, writes Hugh Muir.
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/ 29 September 2005
Unlike other works cashing in on The Da Vinci Code‘s success, Dan Burstein’s collection of essays seeks to understand the complexities of gnosticism and Christian origins, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 29 September 2005
A new book looks at the ife and time of DJ Khabzela, who preached safe sex, but lost his life to Aids, writes Sabata-Mpho Mokae.
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/ 29 September 2005
Being proud, flag-waving South Africans doesn’t mean that we have to be happy-clappy rainbowists, deliberately blind to anything that shakes our confidence in our country, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 29 September 2005
Minster of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is happy with the South African National Blood Service’s (SANBS) new race-free risk rating model, she said on Thursday. ”I am glad the SANBS has been able to implement the new risk model for blood donations that excludes race within timelines that we set,” she told reporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 29 September 2005
Mark Scott-Crossley, who threw a man to lions to die, was not a bad person, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Thursday. ”He [Scott-Crossley] has got good attributes,” his counsel Johann Engelbrecht SC told Justice George Maluleke.
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/ 29 September 2005
<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES</b>: Arthur Attwell recently published his first collection of poetry, which has been described as "combining the elegance and precision of an American master like Richard Wilbur".