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/ 27 February 2007
Some people will do anything to get in the papers, but few have the audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country’s biggest media companies into publishing a two-page advertisement he created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
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/ 27 February 2007
The Eastern Cape’s health services brain drain is being turned around with more than double the number of health professionals recruited than resigned in the past year, the provincial health department said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the Eastern Cape had managed to recruit about 3 600 new employees, mostly clinicians, in the financial year now ending.
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/ 27 February 2007
There is no meaningful transformation in the South African auctioneering industry, the South African Auctioneering Transformation Action Group (Saatag) said on Tuesday. Black-owned auctioneering enterprises account for less than R20-million of the estimated R2-billion revenue generated yearly by the auctioneering industry.
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/ 27 February 2007
Sudan on Tuesday rejected the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court (ICC), insisting it would try Darfur war criminals after the court named a minister and a militia leader as suspects. ”The Sudanese judiciary has the capacity and the will to prosecute those who have committed crimes in Darfur,” Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi said.
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/ 27 February 2007
Tony Blair said on Tuesday he had made no decisions about his future once he quits as British prime minister, amid reports he may leave politics altogether so as not to overshadow his successor. ”It’s been a privilege to represent the people of Sedgefield,” he told his monthly news conference, referring to the constituency in north-east England where he has been an MP since 1983.
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/ 27 February 2007
Arsenal and Chelsea were charged with misconduct on Tuesday over the mass brawl at the end of the League Cup final. Arsenal players Emmanuel Eboue and Emmanuel Adebayor were also separately charged by England’s Football Association for their role in the injury time melee, which marred Chelsea’s 2-1 win on Sunday in Cardiff. Three players were sent off.
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/ 27 February 2007
A long-awaited report by a Dutch Reformed Church task team on homosexuality and gay relationships is ready for publication, the Kerkbode reported on Tuesday. It said part of the report is based on consensus, but there are various recommendations on which the general synod will have to decide.
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/ 27 February 2007
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata appeared briefly in a magistrate’s chambers in the Hillbrow courts on Tuesday morning in connection with an alleged drunken-driving incident, instead of in open court. Magistrate H Visser said Motata will appear again in court three in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on April 13.
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/ 27 February 2007
A Norwegian painting featuring $16 311 (about R117 000) of banknotes glued to a canvas proved too tempting to thieves, who made off with it at the weekend, the gallery that displayed it said on Monday. About 100 000 bills of 1 000 kroner each were glued to the canvas.
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/ 27 February 2007
A Milan schoolteacher lost her job after slashing a seven-year-old student’s tongue with a pair of scissors to punish him for talking too much, the Education Ministry announced on Tuesday. "Faced with such grievous actions there is only one possible response: zero tolerance," Education Minister Giuseppe Fioroni said in a statement.