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/ 13 November 2006
Former African National Congress chief whip and fraud convict Tony Yengeni will be hauled before a Correctional Services Department hearing for his alleged breach of the parole code of conduct. Yengeni, who was granted parole for the past weekend, is being investigated following claims he contravened the code of conduct.
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/ 13 November 2006
South Africa on Monday sought to deflect criticism that it is dragging its feet on the roll-out of Aids drugs, saying about 60Â 000 people have been added to the programme in the past year. The Health Ministry also defended controversial Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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/ 13 November 2006
The search for four crew members of a supply tug that went missing on the KwaZulu-Natal coast last week will continue indefinitely, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. ”We’re not speculating that the crew may have drowned,” said NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
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/ 13 November 2006
The crowd roared as blue lights flickered, and images of skulls and three-eyed creatures were superimposed behind the Swedish electronica music duo The Knife.
The enigmatic brother-and-sister band wooed a packed audience at New York’s Webster Hall with their angular, often foreboding sound and graphics projected on a translucent screen that covered the stage.
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/ 13 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s troubled national carrier has managed to settle a ,8-million debt owed to a navigation agency and will resume flights to London later this week, reports said on Monday. Air Zimbabwe abruptly halted flights to London last week over fears its plane would be impounded over the unpaid debt.
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/ 13 November 2006
Lebanon’s political crisis deepened on Monday as the last pro-Syrian minister quit the Cabinet shortly before it met to discuss the framework of a special court to try killers of a former prime minister. The anti-Syrian majority coalition has accused Hezbollah of carrying out a Syrian-Iranian plan to overthrow the Western-backed government.
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/ 13 November 2006
A judge began hearing a closed-door legal challenge on Monday to pop star Madonna’s bid to adopt a baby boy from Malawi. The Human Rights Consultative Committee claims the government broke its own laws by granting an 18-month interim adoption order which has allowed the singer to bring up David Banda outside Malawi.
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/ 13 November 2006
Canadian rock band Nickelback’s South African tour, which had been due to kick off on November 25, has been postponed due to the band members’ ”chronic exhaustion” following an extensive American and European tour, promoter Kusasa South Africa said on Monday.
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/ 13 November 2006
Egypt are hoping Tottenham Hotspur striker Mido recovers in time from a knee injury to play against South Africa in London on Wednesday. The forward, who did not play against Reading in the English premier league on Sunday, has been named in a 20-man squad for the match at Griffin Park.
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/ 13 November 2006
First there was On Bullshit, a slim philosophical treatise whose phenomenal success took the publishing industry by surprise. And now there is On Truth, a sequel to On Bullshit that its author, Princeton University philosophy professor Harry Frankfurt, says is meant to plug an analytical gap in his first book.