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/ 15 December 2006

Alfa’s lovably arrogant Brera

It’s no secret that Italians are passionate people — they’re passionate about their food, their family, their culture and, most importantly, their cars. They are proud to the point of obstinance — try to disagree with Italians about anything that has come out of their country (including the Mafia) and they’ll argue with you until you give up out of sheer exasperation.

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/ 15 December 2006

Scorpions ‘quizzed Selebi’

According to several informants, the Scorpions recently put questions to police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi in connection with the broader investigation surrounding Glenn Agliotti, the alleged crime kingpin charged with Brett Kebble’s murder. The broader investigation is a multinational probe into criminal syndicates and the alleged involvement of senior police officers.

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/ 15 December 2006

How much will Agliotti reveal?

The Scorpions’ strategy of taking down the conspirators in the Brett Kebble murder one at a time bore further fruit this week when Glenn Agliotti confirmed his role in the killing, while dubbing it an "assisted suicide". It appears that Agliotti has now joined Kebble’s former security boss Clinton Nassif and others as a state informant.

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/ 15 December 2006

Who is John Stratton?

"He was the tungsten tip of the drill bit, and Kebble was the great, flabby weight behind it." That’s how one Brett Kebble associate who dealt with John Stratton described the man who was regarded as Kebble’s right-hand man and the nearest thing the mining magnate had to a friend.

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/ 15 December 2006

Uranium red-hot on skyrocketing demand

The price of uranium has quietly, in a behind-the-scenes kind of way, soared elevenfold since 2000, having reached $63 a pound from about $7 previously, according to uranium industry watchers UX Consulting. Analysts believe it could reach $70 a pound next year. The metal is not traded on the open market and only spot prices are available.

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/ 15 December 2006

Saints and martyrs

The Basilica San Paolo, also known as St Paul’s Outside the Walls, slumbers in marble splendour in an attractively shabby southern suburb of Rome. Graffiti-illuminated trains rattle and roar past its imposing cloister walls, and elderly harpies in heels goad tiny, furry martyrs resentful motion across the wide common at its rear that runs down towards the Tiber.

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/ 15 December 2006

Bushman land comes home

The Botswana High Court’s ruling in favour of the Bushmen who were forcibly removed from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, means that more than 1 000 displaced people can return immediately to their ancestral land. "It is their constitutional right to go back as soon as they like," said lawyer Gordon Bennett, who represented 239 applicants in the matter.