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/ 9 November 2006
South Africa is expected to play a significant role at the United Nations conference in Nairobi during the next two weeks in charting a future for reducing climate change. About 6Â 000 delegates at the Nairobi talks will discuss ways of extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond its 2012 deadline, as well as looking for ways to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
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/ 9 November 2006
Tony Leon has threatened to launch a libel lawsuit against a British historian who raised questions about his proximity to the apartheid intelligence establishment during his time as a conscript in the defence force. James Sanders, a London-based researcher, has sent Leon draft pages of his forthcoming book, <i>Apartheid’s Friends: The Rise and Fall of South Africa’s Secret Service</i>.
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/ 9 November 2006
A man wrestles a woman to the ground along Selby Street in downtown Johannesburg. He picks her up like a screaming baby, carries her behind a pillar and rapes her. On the sixth floor of the Carlton Centre, a team of ”incident analysts” sits before a bank of screens, following the events as they unfold.
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/ 9 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday dismissed calls for a commission of inquiry into allegations against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Mbeki wrote a letter to a Freedom Front Plus MP in response to requests by that party last week for an inquiry to investigate allegations that Selebi was involved in criminal activities.
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/ 9 November 2006
A series of concerted bombings ripped through Baghdad markets on Thursday as attacks across Iraq killed at least 27 people and left little doubt that a brief respite in the violence earlier in the week was over. Overnight at least a dozen mortar shells crashed down on Sunni neighbourhoods in the capital.
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/ 9 November 2006
Sony will roll out the the PlayStation 3, the latest version of its blockbuster games machine, in Japan on Saturday in a three-way showdown with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s upcoming Wii in the nearly -billion video-game market. The stakes are high for Sony.
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/ 9 November 2006
The government in Côte d’Ivoire has culled more than 200 pigs that were being raised near sites polluted by toxic waste dumped in Abidjan in August for fear of contamination of the food chain. The government announced that as part of its management of the toxic-waste crisis, farms located near the polluted sites have been monitored.
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/ 9 November 2006
Eastern Cape legislature members have three different versions of an annual report for a department that has received nine audit disclaimers in 10 years, the Public Service Accountability Monitor said on Thursday. This was highlighted at a joint sitting of the legislature’s housing and local government committees last Friday.
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/ 9 November 2006
Artists and other creative workers could soon enjoy the benefits of a social-security scheme, the Creative Workers’ Union of South Africa (CWUSA) said on Thursday. It is hoped that the scheme will be launched in September next year, the CWUSA’s general secretary, Oupa Lebogo, told reporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 9 November 2006
Public Protector Mabedla Lawrence Mushwana has found that a R65Â 000 interest-free loan paid by Sandi Majali, of Imvume Investments, to Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya’s wife for renovations on Skweyiya’s Waterkloof home did not influence the awarding of a multimillion-rand contract to a company partly owned by Imvume.