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/ 20 January 2005
Award-winning author and television scriptwriter K Sello Duiker was found hanged in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. Before his death, Duiker had been working as a commissioning editor for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. His first novel, <i>Thirteen Cents</i>, attracted considerable publicity and won a 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
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/ 20 January 2005
Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats go into their party congress this weekend still trading punches with their former Western Cape leader Lennit Max, but increasingly confident that they can see off his court challenge without major damage. Max, has taken the party to court over the suspension of his membership.
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/ 20 January 2005
The 62 fraud charges against the mining magnate were thrown out of Johannesburg Regional Court on Wednesday by Magistrate Vivien Hawkins, who agreed with the defence that Kebble’s constitutional right to a speedy trial had been infringed by repeated postponements since his November 2002 arrest.
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/ 20 January 2005
An official Sudanese committee of inquiry has determined that serious human rights abuses have been committed in the troubled Darfur region but rejected claims of ethnic cleansing and systematic rape. The committee report, unveiled on Wednesday, said: ”What had happened in Darfur … did not constitute a genocide crime.”
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/ 20 January 2005
Protesting prison warders taking part in a protest march in Pretoria on Thursday were urged not to sing about Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour’s mother’s genitals or accuse him of being full of shit. ”We are marching to protest against the reduction of warders on duty in prisons over the weekends,” said a Police and Civil Rights Union spokesperson.
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/ 20 January 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) outgoing CEO Peter Matlare has been appointed to Vodacom South Africa in the capacity of executive director: commercial, with effect from April 1, the group announced on Thursday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=195693&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/">SABC boss resigns</a>
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/ 20 January 2005
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government reacted on Thursday to criticism of its regime by new United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, calling her ”a fascist”. At a hearing to confirm her appointment as secretary of state this week, Rice referred to Zimbabwe, among others, as an ”outpost of tyranny”.
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/ 20 January 2005
Distinguishing between fake amateur footage and reporting and the real thing is the issue that emerged from the recent tsunami picture hoaxes. The potential to make such blapse is high and will increase rapidly. It’s going to recur exponentially. But there’s help at hand for editorial decision-makers.
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/ 20 January 2005
Businesses in Africa, Asia and Russia are too slow in tackling the HIV/Aids epidemic and averting the economic damage it causes, according to the results of a global survey published on Thursday. Companies in most countries rarely draw up written policies to tackle HIV/Aids until 20% of the national population is infected.
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/ 20 January 2005
A documentary filmmaker has spent more than a year capturing people on film as they jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The report said Eric Steel had filmed most of the 19 suicides that occurred at the San Francisco icon last year plus a number of attempted suicides.