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/ 9 February 2005
A director at the Lahmeyer International company, one of the international firms involved in the construction of the giant Lesotho highlands water project, is expected to appear in the Lesotho High Court soon on charges of corruption and bribery, according to court papers.
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/ 9 February 2005
A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives detonated himself outside an Iraqi army recruitment centre in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 21 people. It was the latest in a string of recent attacks on an Iraqi national guard base at Muthana airfield in western Baghdad.
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/ 9 February 2005
Bugger the grassroots; scramble for the boardroom. Tear off the T-shirt; put on the pin-stripes. Ten years on, how the African National Congress chant has changed. This week, we delve further into the heart of ANC Inc to reveal the extent of business involvement of the ANC Youth League.
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/ 8 February 2005
A Democratic Alliance fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe will not ”go as far as the airport”, African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) president Fikile Mbalula told students at the University of the Witwatersrand on Tuesday. For its own part, the ANCYL opposes a change of government in Zimbabwe, as it is not a ”regime”, said Mbalula.
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/ 8 February 2005
The 35-year-old woman who slit the throat of a pensioner at the Cresta shopping centre in Johannesburg has attacked a fellow patient at the Sterkfontein mental hospital. Kanellie Hazikonstandinou was committed to the hospital after a court found that she was not fit to stand trial for the murder of 81-year-old Maureen Naughtin.
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/ 8 February 2005
A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday convicted two senior members of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF and a banker who have admitted to selling state secrets to South Africa, a prosecutor said. ”Because of the different and various degrees of moral reprehensibility, they have received various and different prison terms,” he said.
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/ 8 February 2005
Pretoria advocate Cezanne Visser kept her eyes downcast as a police video was shown in the city’s high court on Tuesday of pornographic magazines on display in the bedroom she shared with her lover, colleague and sex-crimes co-accused Dirk Prinsloo. Visser appeared to be making notes through most of that part of the video.
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/ 8 February 2005
A ”stay-home” protest by Togo’s opposition to oppose the hasty swearing-in of President Faure Gnassingbe was on Tuesday gathering support from a population cowed by the repressive 38 years of rule of his late father, Gnassingbe Eyadema. Meanwhile, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council has signalled ”its determination to impose sanctions”.
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/ 8 February 2005
A four-year-old boy borrowed his mother’s car overnight to go rent a video game, police in Sandlake, Michigan, said on Monday. At about 1.30am local time on Friday, a patrol officer reported seeing a car with its lights off moving at a snail’s pace, zigzagging between two lanes on a highway, said police chief Doug Heugel.