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/ 28 November 2006
South African fuels firm De Beers Fuel plans to produce 16 to 24-billion litres of biodiesel a year from algae within five years with an initial investment of R3,5-billion. The company has bought licenses for 40Â 000 hectares to be developed into algae farms and within five years the intention is to increase that land area to 320Â 000 hectares.
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/ 28 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s military has said the country’s cellphone operators are threatening national security by using independent connections to the outside world, official media reported on Tuesday. ”The mobile-service providers have their own international gateway system and … this is dangerous to the state,” Colonel Livingstone Chineka was quoted as saying.
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/ 28 November 2006
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has put a nail in the coffin of a proposed United Nations role in the peace mission in Darfur, possibly sending UN planners back to the drawing board. At a news conference on Monday evening, Bashir repeated his hard-line position in opposition to a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force.
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/ 28 November 2006
United States President George Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al-Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of ”civil war”. Bush, who made his remarks in Estonia on his way to a Nato summit, has avoided using the term civil war, which could increase public pressure on him to pull troops out of Iraq.
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/ 28 November 2006
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday paid warm tribute to the staff of Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. ”God wants you to know just how proud God is of you,” he said at the annual thanksgiving service for the complex’s children’s hospital, of which he and wife Leah are patrons.
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/ 28 November 2006
The National Council of Provinces passed the controversial Civil Union Bill on Tuesday, paving the way for President Thabo Mbeki to sign the measure into law. The legislation, intended to afford gay and lesbians couples the same legal status as married heterosexuals, has drawn fierce criticism from opposition parties as well as religious groups.
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/ 28 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday congratulated his Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) counterpart Joseph Kabila on his affirmation by the DRC Supreme Court as the democratically elected president of the DRC. ”The government and people of South Africa join the international community in welcoming the DRC’s Supreme Court decision …,” Mbeki said.
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/ 28 November 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Tuesday confirmed that it had received a letter from Schabir Shaik’s legal team giving notice that he intends challenging his conviction in the Constitutional Court. Shaik’s lawyer Reeves Parsee said he was fielding ”50 calls a day from the press and I tell them the same thing. I am not going to comment”.
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/ 28 November 2006
Researchers have found that artemisinin, the main drug used in fighting malaria, is well absorbed rectally, giving a promising treatment to people suffering severe forms of the disease. Malaria can cause vomiting, which makes oral administration of the drug difficult.
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/ 28 November 2006
Australian selectors on Tuesday unveiled an unchanged 13-man squad to face England in the second Ashes Test in Adelaide later this week after thrashing the visitors in the opener. With all-rounder Shane Watson ruled out through injury, there was no place for second spinner Stuart MacGill, allowing batsman Michael Clarke to retain his spot.