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/ 18 November 2006
A top Sudanese official signalled that Khartoum would accept United Nations troops as part of an African-led peacekeeping mission in Darfur, but perhaps not as many as the West has asked for under an agreement aimed at ending the continuing violence.
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/ 18 November 2006
A shooting. A stabbing. A beating. A hold-up. Friday’s release of the new PlayStation 3 gaming console led to several violent incidents across the United States. In Connecticut, two armed men tried to rob a line of people waiting to buy the console early on Friday and shot one who refused to give up the money, authorities said.
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/ 18 November 2006
Police would not comment on reports on Friday that a Johannesburg police commissioner had been arrested in connection the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble. National police spokesperson Sally de Beer would also not comment on a report, in the <i>Star</i> newspaper, that the former Hell’s Angels biker suspected of killing Kebble had vanished.
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/ 17 November 2006
A former Hell’s Angels biker who, it is believed, killed mining magnate Brett Kebble last October, has vanished, media reports said on Friday. Also, a Johannesburg police commissioner has apparently been arrested in connection with Glenn Agliotti, the businessman arrested on Thursday morning in connection with the murder.
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/ 17 November 2006
The odds seem stacked against India when a five-match one-day international series against South Africa starts at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. India have won just three times in 16 one-day internationals against the host nation in South Africa and suffered a 37-run defeat in their only warm-up match against a Rest of South Africa team in Benoni on Thursday.
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/ 17 November 2006
The Gauteng Cricket Board announced on Friday that it would take firm action against any spectator guilty of racial abuse during the tours by India and Pakistan. Chief executive Alan Kourie said that following incidents of racial abuse reported from Australia, the board had decided to pay careful attention to the situation at matches at the Wanderers.
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/ 17 November 2006
New data shows a child is abused every hour in Zimbabwe and more than half the reported cases involve sexual abuse, a coalition of child protection groups said on Friday. ”Are Zimbabweans really horrified by these statistics?” said Childline director Audrey Gumbo.
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/ 17 November 2006
A Zimbabwean student’s application to be sent for psychiatric evaluation following his alleged attempt to hijack a South African Airways (SAA) flight was on Friday postponed in the Bellville Regional Court. Lawyer Reuben Liddell will now, on Tuesday, launch the application to have Tinashe Rioga sent to the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital to assess whether he is fit to stand trial.
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/ 17 November 2006
Roger Southall surveys the fourth annual edition of State of the Nation by the HSRC Press, and reflects on its three predecessors.
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/ 17 November 2006
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has urged South Africans to rise above their sectarian interests and unite in the fight against HIV and Aids. In an article on the African National Congress’s website on Friday, she called for the country’s citizens to use World Aids Day on December 1 to join hands against the pandemic.