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/ 25 January 2007
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will meet diamond giant De Beers in Kimberley on Friday to discuss planned retrenchments, the NUM said. ”The discussions are a continuation of earlier talks on [the] De Beers plan to retrench workers in the province,” said Rivonia Morwakgosi, the NUM’s Kimberley regional chairperson.
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/ 25 January 2007
The building of a modern hospital in De Aar has been put on hold due to the preparation costs of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the Northern Cape health department said on Thursday. Spokesperson Shelley Fielding confirmed there is a 12-month delay in the building of a R200-million hospital in De Aar due to a cutback in money available from the National Treasury.
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/ 25 January 2007
A moderate earthquake rattled Taiwan on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage were reported. The magnitude of the earthquake and the epicentre of the tremor were not immediately available. Earthquakes occur frequently in Taiwan, which lies on a seismically active stretch of the Pacific basin.
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/ 25 January 2007
At least two students were shot dead and 35 others wounded in Beirut street fighting on Thursday between students loyal to the government and opposition supporters, a security source said. Opposition-run television station NBN put the death tally from the fighting, which spilled over from the Arab University campus, at four, including two students.
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/ 25 January 2007
South Africa should have condemned Burma’s military regime and supported a call for sanctions against it, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday. It joined others who have criticised the country using its inaugural vote at the United Nations Security Council earlier in January to vote against a resolution demanding an end to human rights abuses in Burma.
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/ 25 January 2007
Bombs killed at least 28 people in Baghdad on Thursday, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed his new crackdown in Baghdad would leave militants nowhere to hide. In a speech to Parliament, Maliki urged politicians on all sides to support his security plan, backed by about 17Â 000 United States reinforcements, which is seen by many as a last chance to stem sectarian violence in the capital.
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/ 25 January 2007
Farmers’ unions and Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana will thrash out their differences at a meeting in Pretoria on Friday. The unions have lashed out at Xingwana after she commented last year that violence against women and children was rife in the sector and accused farmers of inhumanely evicting workers.
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/ 25 January 2007
Retief Goosen took a big step towards re-discovering the form he lost in 2006 with a clinical seven-under-par 65 in the first round of the ,2-million Qatar Masters on Thursday. The South African held his own in the sometimes blustery conditions in the afternoon to take a one-shot lead over Spaniard Miguel Angel Jiminez and Aussie Nick O’Hern, who shot both shot 66.
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/ 25 January 2007
Johannesburg Metrobus workers will strike on Monday over the encashment of accumulated sick leave, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Thursday. This will leave tens of thousands of workers, pupils and students in the city stranded, warned Samwu branch secretary Dumisani Langa.
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/ 25 January 2007
Lebanon won more than ,6-billion on Thursday to help it cope with a debt mountain and recover from war — and, some donors hope, to help its United States-backed government weather a growing threat from Hezbollah-led opponents. Saudi Arabia headed the list of donors with a promise of ,1-billion of development aid and grants.