Replacements Roy Kinikinilau and Piri Weepu combined for a try and conversion four minutes from full-time to give Wellington a 26-26 draw with the Auckland Blues in Super 12 rugby on Friday. The draw left the Blues, last year’s champions, locked only one place from the bottom of the championship ladder.
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Academics and political analysts from around the world have gathered in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, for a conference on the achievements of the first decade of democracy in the country. "Post-apartheid South Africa has taught all of us that even those who are made into the worst enemies can overcome the trauma of such a tragedy," said Salim Ahmed Salim.
Thirty people were killed, including three police offiers, as security forces violently quashed an anti-government protest in Abidjan on Thursday, said one of the organisers, the opposition Rally of the Republicans. After the quashing of the protest, the Rally of the Republicans said it was pulling out of the unity government.
A pharmacy assistant’s dirty hands were the main reason why six babies died earlier this month in the Pelonomi hospital in Bloemfontein. Dr Victor Litlhakanyane, head of the Free State health department, told a news conference on Thursday that the assistant who prepared foodstuffs for the babies had washed his hands in a dirty basin.
Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a ”hand of partnership” to Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi in Tripoli on Thursday in a changing post-September 11 world, after a landmark meeting and handshakes that came three months after Libya’s decision to abandon weapons of mass destruction.
The World Bank has granted Malawi -million to resettle 25Â 000 farmers under a controversial land reform programme aimed at reducing poverty in the Southern African nation, its land minister said on Thursday. The World Bank is a major sponsor of the country’s tough economic reforms.
Islamic extremists had planned a bomb attack on Milan’s main railway station similar to that which rocked Madrid on March 11, Italian media reports said on Thursday. The daily Corriere della Sera newspaper said the attacks were planned between 1997 and 2001.
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In a protest on Thursday against the unequal donation policies of big business during the elections, the Freedom Front Plus handed back R10Â 000 to Sanlam at its head offices in Bellville, near Cape Town. ”We don’t want this donation … it is humiliation,” FF+ leader Dr Pieter Mulder told journalists.
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The Roman Catholic Church in Mozambique’s northern Nampula region on Thursday insisted its claims of a human organ-trafficking network operating in the province and targeting children were true. The church demanded a continued probe to bring the alleged criminals to book.