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/ 2 November 2006
Andre Petim, the Ajax Cape Town goalkeeper, secured a place for his side in the next round of the Telkom Cup knockout competition by saving two penalities against the Golden Arrows at Greenpoint Stadium on Wednesday night. Ajax won 4-2 on penalties when the game was forced into extra time.
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/ 2 November 2006
When she became the youngest ever winner of the Booker prize Kiran Desai inadvertently lifted the town of Kalimpong out of the shadows of the Himalayas and into the glare of the media spotlight. But few in the town are now thanking her for setting her novel, The Inheritance of Loss, in this landscape.
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/ 2 November 2006
Sudan denied hosting rebels from the Central African Republic (CAR) in its war-ravaged Darfur region, the official newspaper of Sudan’s military reported on Wednesday. The Central African Republic has accused neighbouring Sudan of allowing rebels to establish bases in Darfur, from which they launch attacks on the republic.
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/ 2 November 2006
South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Thursday morning that South Africa was very much part of the global village and was heavily influenced by international economic developments, but added that many of these developments had resulted in increased uncertainty and risk.
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/ 2 November 2006
An unholy row has broken out at the pope’s television station, with accusations flying that it paid derisory salaries, imposed demeaning conditions, victimised women employees — and even tried to hold a staff meeting to find out if some were virgins.
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/ 2 November 2006
The most comprehensive map of endangered species and where they live has shown that 11% of birds, 24% of mammals and 33% of amphibians are at risk. But worryingly for conservationists, the map suggests that threatened species are not clustered together, making it harder to target resources.
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/ 2 November 2006
More than three-and-a-half years after Iraqis cheered the fall of Saddam Hussein’s statue, the ousted dictator’s own end will probably draw a little closer on Sunday with the verdict in his first trial. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said an execution order ”on this criminal despot and his criminal aides will be passed soon”.
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/ 2 November 2006
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday hailed Portugal’s transfer of control of a huge hydroelectric plant to its former colony as the end of ”the final redoubt of foreign domination”. Guebuza signed an agreement with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates late on Tuesday to buy 82% of shares in the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river.
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/ 2 November 2006
United States President George Bush on Wednesday renewed US economic sanctions on Sudan for one year and left open the door to imposing new ones linked to the violence in Darfur. Washington "is prepared to pursue the designation of additional individuals that continue to commit violence and impede the peace process in Darfur", he said.
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/ 2 November 2006
It is important to place on record the kind of man and leader PW Botha really was. He was not "the great demolisher of apartheid", as one newsÂpaper commentator described him. Under mounting international pressure and internal dissent he did dismantle many discriminatory laws. But apartheid was never about segregation –it was about white minority power.