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Penis size came under scrutiny on Thursday when the Jali Commission of Inquiry into prison maladministration probed claims by a former inmate that he was forced to perform oral sex on a warder through a window. The commission heard it would have been impossible for the warder to get his penis through that particular window.
De Kock named in prison corruption
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Anant Singh’s DreamWorld consortium has been confirmed as the successful bidder to establish a multimillion-rand film city outside Cape Town. Construction is expected to start in the first quarter of next year, and finish early in 2006. Singh told a media briefing the consortium planned an investment of R400-million.
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Malawian President Bakili Muluzi said on Thursday endemic corruption has ”slowed down” economic growth in the poor Southern African nation and repeated a warning that offenders will be punished. Muluzi did not elaborate on how much the economy has sufferred due to graft.
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Zimbabwe’s highest court threw out a constitutional challenge to the country’s sweeping media laws on Thursday, making it a criminal offense to work as a journalist without a licence. The Supreme Court ruling effectively puts journalists under the direct control of the government.
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Official opposition deputy finance spokesperson Pierre Rabie said he was certain that President Thabo Mbeki would avoid the Zimbabwe issue in his State of the Nation speech on Friday — what Mbeki’s Director General Frank Chikane described as one of the four "Hs": Harare , Hefer, HIV, and Haiti.<br>
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President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) has retained the parliamentary constituency seat held by former vice president Simon Muzenda who died last year, Zimbabwean state radio reported on Wednesday.
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Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock and Pretoria local prison head Nick Baloyi were accused on Thursday of fabricating evidence to discredit a witness before the Jali commission of inquiry into prison mismanagement. Baloyi was accused of asking a prisoner to give false testimony and De Kock was also implicated.
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Britain’s defence minister on Thursday played down a spiralling row over pre-war information on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction after Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted he was in the dark about a key piece of intelligence. Blair on Wednesday said he had not been clear about what sort of weapons Iraq was alleged to possess.
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More than 10Â 000 birds died mysteriously in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, dropping like rain from the sky, state media reported on Thursday. Farmers and other witnesses in Sangongdian village in Taizhou city saw flocks of bramble finch suddenly fall from the sky on Tuesday.
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Five people hugged each other as their apartment building collapsed on Monday, crushing them to death in central Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday. Relief workers struggled to separate their bodies to be able to pull them out of the debris of the building. At least 38 people died in the collapse.