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/ 15 January 2007
A 15-year-old boy wearing blood-spattered clothing, has been arrested in connection with the murder of 78-year-old Mpumalanga farmer Sarel Breedt, News24 reported on Monday. The blood was thought to be that of Breedt, who was tied to a chair at his Honingsdraai farm and shot in the head on Thursday afternoon.
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/ 15 January 2007
If Ronald "Ron the Con" Suresh Roberts had any spine in him, he’d have been present in court when Judge Leslie Weinkove threw as much of the book at him as he could during the Roberts defamation case against the <i>Sunday Times</i>. Instead, according to his lawyers, he was unavailable, maybe even out of the country.
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/ 15 January 2007
Fraud convict Tony Yengeni received two high-profile visitors at the Malmesbury Prison on Sunday –- African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma and Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour. While Zuma’s visit was a social one, Balfour’s was official, the department said in a statement.
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/ 15 January 2007
Two of Saddam Hussein’s aides were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said, admitting that the head of his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al- Tikriti was also ripped from his body during the execution. But spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh told a news conference that there was ”no violation of procedure”.
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/ 15 January 2007
A pedestrian was run down and ”torn to pieces” by several cars on the R24 freeway between the OR Tambo International Airport and Johannesburg on Sunday night, Ekurhuleni Metro Police said. Inspector Mveli Nhlapo said the man, believed to be around 35-years-old, crossed the freeway near a pedestrian bridge when he was knocked down.
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/ 15 January 2007
Police ejected about 150 spectators from the Australian Open on Monday after an ugly brawl broke out between Serbian and Croatian fans inside the ground. Fans wearing the national colours of the bitter Balkan rivals clashed in the Rod Laver Arena after taunting and hurling insults at each other.
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/ 15 January 2007
The United Kingdom’s biggest arms supplier secretly paid a -million commission into a Swiss account in a deal that led to Tanzania buying a controversial military radar system. A Tanzanian middleman has admitted that the sum was covertly moved to a Swiss account by BAE Systems, which is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in Britain.
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/ 15 January 2007
Is Wales closed during the winter? Are the churches in England open at Christmas? From the confused to the frankly bizarre, British tourist centres have dealt with them all. Visit Britain, the national tourism agency, has half-a-million people a year pass through its information centres seeking advice on how to make the most of their trip.
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/ 15 January 2007
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> owner, Zimbabwean-born Trevor Ncube, will challenge attempts by President Robert Mugabe’s government to revoke his citizenship in the Harare High Court on Wednesday.
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/ 15 January 2007
This year will mark the first occasion on which an African country, Kenya, is serving as sole host of the World Social Forum (WSF) — a gathering that had its beginnings in the Brazilian town of Porto Alegre seven years ago. While the WSF did come to Africa in 2006, this was in the context of a so-called "polycentric forum" that also saw gatherings take place on other continents.