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Every raped woman is still confronted by the problem of testifying in an open court, Johannesburg High Court Judge George Maluleke said on Wednesday, following an application by the state to have the evidence of dozens of women allegedly raped by Mongezi Samuel Jinxela heard in camera.
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/ 8 November 2006
Mittal Steel South Africa on Wednesday said it knows nothing of planned protests by its workers’ union over high steel prices. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa on Tuesday said it will ”mobilise a series of work stoppages, demonstrations, including general strikes in protest against steel-price increases”.
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/ 8 November 2006
At least 65 civilians were killed and about 300 injured on Wednesday when government forces shelled a refugee camp in eastern Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels and medical sources said. A spokesperson for the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said the final toll could rise to 100.
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/ 8 November 2006
A suicide bomber killed at least 42 soldiers at an army base in north-west Pakistan on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a revenge attack for a missile strike against an al-Qaeda training camp, officials said. Witnesses said the huge explosion left body parts and shredded clothing scattered across a parade ground.
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/ 8 November 2006
Here’s an idea that could break the polarisation around the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) — indeed, a mechanism for the broadcaster to get out the corner into which it has painted itself over the blacklisting saga. To take a leaf from the New Partnership for Africa’s Development book, how about a peer-review system for African state-owned broadcasters, the SABC included?
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/ 8 November 2006
South Africans should bury the past before the past buries them, Jordanian Christian missionary Dr Bahjat Batarseh told mourners at the funeral in George of apartheid-era president PW Botha on Wednesday. In a lengthy sermon, he called on South Africans not to abuse the nation but to be one family together.
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/ 8 November 2006
The smell of petrol lingering around the Blaauwpan Dam, east of Johannesburg, might remain for days while a layer of fuel on the dam’s surface is causing "catastrophic" environmental hazards, according to conservationists. More than a million litres of aviation fuel is said to have leaked from OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday.
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/ 8 November 2006
Environmentalists on Wednesday hailed Democratic victories in United States congressional elections as a possible harbinger of change in the global-warming policies of the world’s top polluters. But they said there was little chance the power shift would alter US President George Bush’s opposition to binding caps on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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/ 8 November 2006
Israeli police were on Wednesday placed on alert for possible Palestinian attacks after militant groups called for a resumption of suicide bombings inside the Jewish state, a police spokesperson said. ”Our forces have been placed on an advance state of alert across Israeli territory following events in the Gaza Strip,” saud Micky Rosenfeld.
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/ 8 November 2006
Ernie Els has confirmed that he will defend his Alfred Dunhill Championship title at the Leopard Creek Country Club near Malelane next month. The South African will return to Leopard Creek as one of the biggest stars in the December 7 to 10 tournament, which is played on South Africa’s number-one-ranked course.