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/ 3 December 2006
A continental review body has warned that crime, poverty, unemployment and the ruling African National Congress party’s domination threatens South Africa’s post-apartheid democracy, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. The paper said a report by the African Peer Review Mechanism found that ”crime is one of the most difficult of the many challenges facing South Africa in the post-apartheid era”.
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/ 3 December 2006
South Africa’s Ernie Els and Spain’s Sergio Garcia have been fined nominal amounts for throwing golf clubs at the Sun City Challenge, tournament officials revealed on Sunday. Els threw his club on the 14th hole during Saturday’s third round after Garcia had performed a similar act of displeasure on the ninth hole during his first round.
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/ 3 December 2006
About 150 members of the main opposition Botswana National Front held a protest march on Saturday against government moves to relocate Bushmen from their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Botswana’s high court is expected to rule on December 13 on a legal challenge by the Bushmen against their eviction.
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/ 3 December 2006
Zimbabwe’s embattled finance minister has set a Herculean task of slashing four-digit inflation by two-thirds and getting the ruined economy back on track, but experts say his latest Budget is not up to the job.Presenting the Budget for 2007 on Thursday, Herbert Murerwa forecast marginal growth of 0,5% to 1% and added that the country’s astronomic inflation rate would fall to 350%.
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/ 3 December 2006
Villagers in the central Philippines buried hundreds of relatives and friends in mass graves on Sunday as hopes faded of finding survivors from Typhoon Durian. Officials fear the death toll from Durian, which swept into the South China Sea on Friday, could reach 600 after torrential rain and winds of up to 225kph sent waves of mud crashing down an active volcano into nearby villages.
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/ 3 December 2006
Corpses of people killed during heavy clashes between the Sudanese army and former southern rebels have contaminated part of the Nile river, which civilians were depending on for drinking water. The fighting in the southern town of Malakal this week was the heaviest between government forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year.
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/ 3 December 2006
The African Union’s elite watchdog body has urged South Africa to make the fight against violent crime its top priority, the Sunday Times reported. In a report that will go to heads of state in January, a panel of African elders warned that crime, poverty, unemployment and the political domination of the ANC threatened the stability of South Africa’s hard won democracy.
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/ 3 December 2006
In a move that will send shockwaves through the White House a leaked memo from former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in which he admitted American failings in Iraq and called for a major change in policy, emerged on Saturday. The classified memo revealed that the ultra-hawkish Rumsfeld believes that United States forces in Iraq are not achieving their aims.
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/ 3 December 2006
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik suffered a mild stroke shortly after beginning his prison term at the Qalakabusha prison in Empangeni, the Sunday Independent reported. Shaik was initially treated for hypertension after his transfer to Qalakabusha from the Westville prison on November 9.
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/ 3 December 2006
An Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said he believed both were targeted with a radioactive substance because of secrets they shared. Mario Scaramella said on Saturday urine tests showed he had received a potentially lethal dose of polonium 210, the rare radioactive isotope that killed Litvinenko.