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/ 17 December 2006
A fire broke out in a tent at a wedding party in eastern Pakistan, triggering a stampede and wall collapse that killed 27 women and children, police said on Sunday. More than 30 other people were injured when the wedding party turned into a tragedy late on Saturday night in Jhok Utra.
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/ 17 December 2006
Paramedics on Friday treated a white man who collapsed at a police roadblock after explaining he had changed his name to ”Dlamini” to benefit from black economic empowerment, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Saturday. A spokesperson said traffic officials stopped the man during a roadblock on the N17.
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/ 17 December 2006
South Africans must work together to redefine their shared common identity, President Thabo Mbeki said at the lighting of the eternal flame in Freedom Park in Pretoria on Saturday. He said South Africans should not allow the interests of selfish individuals to override the hard-won freedoms achieved by all.
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/ 17 December 2006
Zambia’s government has backtracked on its earlier ban of popular rallies by controversial opposition leader Michael Sata on security grounds, Home Affairs Minister Ronnie Shikapwashya said on Saturday. The minister said Sata and any other opposition leaders are free to hold public rallies.
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/ 17 December 2006
The Young Communist League (YCL) has expelled its national general secretary, Mazibuko Jara, for bringing the party into disrepute, news reports said on Saturday. The Mail & Guardian reported late last year that the YCL was considering suspending Jara for questioning the league’s support for Jacob Zuma in a paper he wrote.
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/ 17 December 2006
Eight people were killed and 30 were injured, 18 seriously, when a bus overturned on between Indwe and Dordrecht in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, according to Arrive Alive. The bus was transporting 72 passengers from Cape Town to Qumbu, Tsolo, Mount Frere and other areas.
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/ 17 December 2006
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has refused to defer the date for next year’s implementation of reduced dispensing fees for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Stakeholders’ Forum said on Saturday. A new dispensing-fee structure was published in the Government Gazette at the beginning of December.
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/ 17 December 2006
Five-month-old South African conjoined twins Danielle and Danika Lowton on Saturday successfully underwent the first phase of a procedure to separate them. The twins are one of approximately 2,5 million babies worldwide born with conjoined heads, said Dr Henry du Plooy of the Arwyp Hospital, Kempton Park.
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/ 17 December 2006
Taliep Petersen, one of Cape Town’s most popular theatre personalities, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at his Athlone home on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. Petersen was internationally known and awarded for his work with David Kramer on the hit 1990s stage musical Kat and the Kings, among others.
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/ 17 December 2006
Her name is Unity Dow, Judge Unity Dow. But she may remind some of Portia — Shylock’s nemesis — for the performance she put on last week for the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Last Wednesday, Botswana’s Bushmen won a historic victory at the end of a four-year legal battle to hold on to their ancestral lands.