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/ 27 October 2006

Taxi drivers disrupt traffic

Disgruntled taxi drivers were blocking roads and causing a major traffic congestion in the Pretoria city centre, Tshwane metro police said on Friday morning. ”All roads leading into the city centre have been blocked by a massive entourage of taxi drivers going in and taxi drivers are ignoring all traffic signals,” said spokesperson Mel Vosloo.

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/ 27 October 2006

Scorpions accused may challenge dismissal

Cornwell Tshavhungwa, the disgraced former deputy director of the Scorpions in Gauteng, is threatening to take Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla to court to challenge the decision to terminate his contract. Tshavhungwa spent over a year in jail after he was charged with fraud and corruption for allegedly accepting bribes from government officials to divert investigations against them.

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/ 27 October 2006

Wolfowitz shows lighter side in malaria campaign

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz bumped and wriggled to an African beat on Thursday, showing a lighter public side as he danced with South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka in a campaign against malaria. Wolfowitz joined Chaka Chaka in the atrium of the bank as their audience of African ambassadors, private sector officials, and World Bank and congressional staff cheered and clapped.

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/ 27 October 2006

Ancient brothel restored

The ”wolves’ lair” — ancient Pompeii’s biggest, best planned and most richly decorated brothel — on Thursday reopened to the public after extensive restoration. The two-storey building, which was built at about the time Spartacus was leading his slaves’ revolt, had been closed for almost a year.

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/ 27 October 2006

After war, Goma yearns for peace

Few of Goma’s long-suffering residents imagined that life could get much worse after the fall of Zaire’s kleptomaniac president, Mobutu Sese Seko, who amassed billions while driving his people ever deeper into poverty and despair before he was toppled nearly a decade ago.

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/ 27 October 2006

‘Popcru too powerful’

The Jali commission of inquiry has slammed the inordinate power it says is exercised by the Cosatu prisons affiliate Popcru in the administration of prisons. The full executive summary of the findings of former judge Thabani Jali was released by the correctional services department this week after a storm of protest over the sanitised version handed to Parliament recently.

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/ 27 October 2006

Water offenders beware

Nigel Adams and his Blue Scorpions team of four have been ruffling feathers since they started work in June this year. Not that Adams apologises. He has no mercy for water abusers — unless they repent and face up to their sins. The Scorpions’ wrath is coming down on 67 unsuspecting members of the Impala Water User Association in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal.

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/ 27 October 2006

Durban fires blanks on report

EThekwini municipal manager Mike Sutcliffe is sitting on a damning Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) report detailing "lax control" of hundreds of firearms and ammunition issued by the state to the Durban Metro Police Service. The report lists 66 state-issued firearms as missing and being investigated by the police.