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/ 17 January 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has accused Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad of not giving ”an honest answer” to a parliamentary question. The question was whether the Presidency had commissioned a R1-million corporate sponsorship for author Ronald Suresh Roberts to write a book about President Thabo Mbeki. In a written reply, in November 2004, Pahad said it had not.
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/ 17 January 2007
Four South Africans abducted in Iraq a month ago are still alive, Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday. Pahad said the men’s captors had told negotiators they were safe and that negotiations to free them continue. ”Of course this is their word,” Pahad said, adding that there was no independent confirmation of the men’s health.
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/ 17 January 2007
Alice Coltrane, a jazz performer and composer whose late husband was saxophone legend John Coltrane, has died. She was 69. Coltrane died on January 12 of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Centre in West Hills, California, said Marilyn McLeod, her sister.
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/ 17 January 2007
South African retail sales growth accelerated to 12,3% year-on-year in November at constant prices, backing the case for a rate rise in February, official data showed on Wednesday. Retail sales rose by a downwardly revised 8,7% in October, while sales growth for the three months to November climbed to 11,5%, also at constant prices.
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/ 17 January 2007
The number of injuries in the older age groups of schoolboy rugby is on the increase and is a major cause for concern, says former Springbok captain Morne du Plessis. Addressing the 29th Discovery SharkSmart Coaching Conference last week, Du Plessis explained that the age group most at risk is boys 19 years and younger.
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/ 17 January 2007
Ashwell Prince, who scored his sixth Test hundred in South Africa’s win over Pakistan in Centurion, is now within touching distance of a place in the top ten of the LG International Cricket Council player rankings for Test batsmen. The left-hander has risen three spots to eleventh position, his highest-ever placing on the list, and is now breathing down the neck of teammate Jacques Kallis.
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/ 17 January 2007
Two members of the Delicious Rugby Club in the Boland, who allegedly rendered an opposing player unconscious in an on-field brawl, appeared on Tuesday in the Worcester Regional Court on charges of culpable homicide. Ben Zimry and Wayne Matthee were not asked to plead when they appeared before magistrate PJ van Rensburg, who postponed the case to May 15.
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/ 17 January 2007
As global sports icon Muhammad Ali celebrates his 65th birthday on Wednesday, the former heavyweight champion’s glory is undiminished by the ailment that has dimmed his flamboyant manner. At an age when most working Americans retire, Ali’s legend has been epic for decades and his absence from the ring for nearly a quarter of a century has not diminished his legacy.
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/ 17 January 2007
The JSE remained on the softer side at midday on Wednesday as some sectors fell prey to profit taking. However, there were pockets of strength, notably industrial counters. At 12.21pm, the all-share index was down 0,23%, with resources off 1,34%, the gold miners 1,28% softer and platinums 0,87% in the red.
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/ 17 January 2007
Television bosses launched an investigation on Tuesday after a newsreader flashed her tummy and exchanged risqué banter with a colleague, not realising she was live on air. Emma Baker of Anglia Television, which broadcasts to viewers in eastern England, also fiddled with her bra and apparently addressed a co-worker as "Mrs Shameless".