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/ 17 January 2007
A Limpopo farmer has been fined R10 000 or two-and-a-half years’ in prison for shooting dead a boy he mistook for a dog, media reports said on Wednesday. Found guilty of culpable homicide, Marchel Nel (39) was fined R20 000 or five years’ in prison by the Thabazimbi Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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/ 17 January 2007
Nigeria’s proscriptive broadcast policy means that Africa’s most populous country has only one community radio station. By contrast, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has 192. These are some of the facts in what is probably the most comprehensive study done to date of the African media.
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/ 17 January 2007
Gauteng provincial minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia said on Wednesday he is concerned about allegations that police abused their power by threatening and intimidating a prostitute and a photographer in Pretoria. ”In a democratic society everyone is entitled to humane and lawful treatment by the police,” Cachalia said.
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/ 17 January 2007
South Africa defended on Wednesday its decision to vote against a United States-led United Nations Security Council resolution urging democratic reform in Burma, saying the measure went beyond the council’s mandate. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said South Africa would continue to fight for democracy, human rights and freedom in Burma.
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/ 17 January 2007
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have rejected south Sudanese Vice-President Riek Machar as chief mediator at talks to end one of Africa’s longest wars. LRA second-in-command Vincent Otti said the rebels would permanently abandon talks with Uganda’s government in Juba if an alternative venue cannot be found.
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/ 17 January 2007
Telkom came under fire this week after international news agency Reuters criticised the company for high telecommunications prices and low-quality bandwidth. Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer told <i>Business Day</i> newspaper that while his company had been expanding in countries such as India, he was reluctant to do the same thing in South Africa.
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/ 17 January 2007
Cape Town’s share of the considerable Fifa 2010 Soccer World Cup benefits depend entirely on the new Green Point Stadium, mayor Helen Zille warned on Wednesday. ”Residents, and specifically objectors to the stadium, must be quite clear about the choices we face,” she told a special council meeting.
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/ 17 January 2007
Somalia’s Parliament voted on Wednesday to oust powerful speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, who fell out with the president and prime minister late last year after he made peace overtures to Islamists. ”The speaker is out,” Somali legislator Ali Basha told Reuters by phone from the Parliament, which is in a converted grain warehouse in the interim capital, Baidoa.
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/ 17 January 2007
South Africa has again stressed that its defence force is over-stretched and is still considering troop contributions to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad told journalists in Pretoria on Wednesday that no decision has been made on possible troop contributions.
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/ 17 January 2007
Broadband internet access has become cheaper than dial-up for the first time, figures show. Consumers with a dial-up connection are now almost certain to make savings by switching to broadband, irrespective of whether they pay per minute or via a monthly fee for unlimited access, according to SimplySwitch.com, the price-comparison service.