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/ 18 December 2006
Niren Tolsi’s “On the far side of left” (December 8) fails to delve into the events that culminated in the “invasion” of the national meeting of the Social Movements Indaba (SMI) by some members of Abahlali baseMjondolo and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC), writes the SMI national coordinating committee.
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/ 18 December 2006
Everyone knows that a Cape Town holiday requires a tour of the wine routes. Which is why you’ll need Christine Rudman’s expert guide to little-known farms that offer beauty without the crowds.
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/ 17 December 2006
Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures, including koalas and kangaroos, may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say. The blazes have devastated thousands of hectares, razed clusters of homes and claimed one life since they began earlier this month.
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/ 17 December 2006
Congratulations! You are the Time magazine ”Person of the Year”. The annual honour for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals — citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it.
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/ 17 December 2006
Think your data is safe, if it’s backed up on CDs? Think again, say experts. Data burned on to CDs does not last forever. ”Self-burned CDs sometimes last only a year before they’re no longer readable and the data is lost,” says computer science professor Matthias Hemmje from the Fern-Universitaet Hagen.
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/ 17 December 2006
Revolutions are rarely announced so far in advance. But after years of tinkering and publicising, Nintendo’s new games console has finally hit the market. The Wii, long known on the internet under the working title ”Revolution”, is Nintendo’s new entrant into the gaming field.
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/ 17 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party on Saturday proposed extending veteran President Robert Mugabe’s term by another two years, giving him a full three decades in power. The 82-year-old Mugabe had previously indicated he would retire when his term expired in 2008.
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/ 17 December 2006
Two South African families who immigrated to New Zealand lost three of their children in a freak landslide as they played in a river at a popular picnic spot, it was reported on Sunday. The parents watched helplessly on Friday evening as the children were hit by tonnes of rock in the Pohangina River, near Palmerston North.
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/ 17 December 2006
Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party on Sunday chose Umaru Yar’Adua, Governor of the northern Katsina state, as its candidate for the April 2007 presidential election. Yar’Adua (55) won hands down, garnering 3 024 votes out of a total of 4 007 valid votes cast.
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/ 17 December 2006
Trevor Immelman carded a course-record nine-under-par 63 on his way to a three-stroke lead ahead of the final round of the South African Airways (SAA) Open at Humewood Golf Club on Saturday. Immelman’s spectacular bogey-free round included nine birdies and placed him at 20-under-par, three shots ahead of Ernie Els.