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/ 10 December 2007
An elderly British tourist found dead after a fire on Table Mountain could have died of a heart attack, the doctor who did the post-mortem examination conceded on Monday at the trial of British national Anthony Cooper, who is alleged to have started the fire in January last year by tossing a burning cigarette butt on to dry grass.
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/ 10 December 2007
Kenya’s main opposition party accused the government on Monday of bribing voters and risking regional insecurity by trying to rig polls due on December 27. ”A rigged electoral process will cause such chaos and political instability in Kenya, not only here but in the entire East Africa region,” presidential challenger Raila Odinga said.
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/ 10 December 2007
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, together with former president of Ireland Mary Robinson and Graça Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, on Monday launched a human rights campaign marking the 60th year since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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/ 10 December 2007
A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates, a report said on Monday. An office was set up outside Jhansi town in Uttar Pradesh state and 20 people employed to carry out jobs such as street sweeping.
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/ 10 December 2007
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have launched a contest to track down Father Christmas somewhere inside the mountainous Central Asian state — a week after Swedish experts reported that he must be there. The contest runs until December 20, but the hunt could prove tough because of the former Soviet republic’s imposing mountain ranges.
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/ 10 December 2007
D-Day for the approximately 600 000 people who wrote matric in South Africa will be December 28 when the Department of Education releases this year’s final exam results. The results will be available in newspapers at 6am, said department spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele.
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/ 10 December 2007
DaimlerChrysler South Africa would from Monday be trading as Mercedes-Benz South Africa, the car manufacturer said. The name change will not affect present contracts and undertakings. ”It is business as usual, with a fresh focus and renewed energy,” said Hansgeorg Niefer, chairperson of Mercedes-Benz South Africa.
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/ 10 December 2007
The prospect of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma becoming president is profoundly concerning, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said on Monday at a press conference at Parliament to release the DA’s annual ”report card” on the performance of Cabinet ministers.
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/ 10 December 2007
Thirty-one illegal immigrants drowned when their boat sank on the weekend in the Aegean Sea off western Turkey while trying to reach Greece, a local official said on Monday. An earlier death toll had stood at 20 people. Six other immigrants were rescued overnight off the town of Seferihisar near the city of Izmir.
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/ 10 December 2007
Six French members of the Zoe’s Ark charity, three Chadians and a Sudanese national will be tried by a criminal court in Chad for having tried to fly 103 African children to France, a lawyer said on Monday. A Chadian investigating judge dismissed the case against 12 other suspects.