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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.
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/ 17 December 2006
The increasingly violent power struggle in the Occupied Territories edged closer to civil war on Saturday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would call fresh presidential and legislative elections and insisted he had the right to fire the Hamas-led government.
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/ 17 December 2006
Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the cellphone operator, about a multibillion-dollar partnership to create a "Google phone" that makes it easy to search the web wherever you are. The collaboration is seen as a potential catalyst for making internet use of cellphones as natural as on desktop computers and laptops.
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/ 16 December 2006
Australia were on the verge of regaining the Ashes after their batsmen, led by a devastating Adam Gilchrist, smashed England all over the park on day three of the third Test at an oppressively hot Western Australia Cricket Association ground in Perth on Saturday. The Australians declared late in the day at 527 for five.
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/ 16 December 2006
India appeared firmly in control of the first Castle Lager Test at the Wanderers on Saturday after bundling South Africa out for their lowest Test score since readmission. At close of play on the second day, India had 146 for five for an overall lead of 311. It was a day of high drama on which Shaun Pollock made history.
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/ 16 December 2006
All good fairy tales have a happy ending, as Cinderella Premier Soccer League club Silver Stars discovered when they beat Ajax Cape Town 3-1 in the Telkom Knockout final at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Saturday afternoon and pocketed the record R4,25-million winners’ prize.
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/ 16 December 2006
About 10 000 security agents, including police officers, were deployed on Saturday to ensure the smooth running of presidential primaries of Nigeria’s ruling party, a police spokesperson said. About 5 000 delegates of the People’s Democratic Party were to converge in Abuja to choose their presidential candidate for 2007.
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/ 16 December 2006
Ernie Els and Trevor Immelman head into the weekend of the South African Airways (SAA) Open at Humewood chasing the one-stroke lead of Swede Patrik Sjoland. Sjoland carded a course record 64 for a total of 12 under par and is seeking to become the second Swedish winner of the championship.