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/ 24 November 2006
Farmers have raised heavyweight objections to a steel barrier erected on the Crocodile River, at the Mpumalanga government’s request, to stop hippos from chomping canoeists. They say the metre-high steel cable — which will ensure the animals watch the Lowveld Croc canoe marathon from a safe distance — is environmentally unfriendly overkill for a race that happens once a year.
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/ 24 November 2006
Communist leader Moses Mabhida, who died in exile in Maputo in 1986, finally came home recently. Mabhida’s remains were exhumed in a special ceremony in the Mozambican capital attended by family members and ANC high-ups, including KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele and Finance Minister Zweli Mkhize.
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/ 24 November 2006
A lecture tour by Benjamin Pogrund, a former South African journalist now living in Israel, and his Palestinian associate has been called off in the wake of the controversy around Israel’s shelling of Gaza. However, the fate of the tour was already in the balance after threats by the South African-based Palestine Solidarity Committee to demonstrate outside the lecture venues.
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/ 24 November 2006
Writer Ronald Roberts threatened at least 25 individuals at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), including the entire board, with criminal and civil action when the corporation refused to apologise to him over a broadcast he objected to, the Cape High Court heard recently.
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/ 24 November 2006
The board of food retailer Shoprite Holdings has accepted a R13-billion buy-out offer from Brait Private Equity that involves restructuring the company and terminating its listing on the JSE. A statement issued on behalf of Shoprite Holdings on Friday said the transaction will be funded by a combination of equity and debt.
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/ 24 November 2006
Springbok captain John Smit admitted on Friday he was taken aback by the decision to recall coach Jake White before the end of their tour but insisted it would not affect the team’s performance come Saturday’s second Test against England at Twickenham.
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/ 24 November 2006
Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi’ite area. Two suicide bombs ripped through a Shi’ite market in northern Iraq killing 22 people earlier on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighbourhoods.
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/ 24 November 2006
The investigation into service delivery by the Department of Land Affairs was a welcome development, said AgriSA on Friday. ”AgriSA has been concerned for some time about processes that were delayed in the department and the commission on restitution of land rights,” said Dr Theo de Jager, chairperson of the AgriSA land-affairs committee.
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/ 24 November 2006
Listing Aids as the cause of death on public death certificates will not in any way improve the collection of statistics on HIV-related deaths, the Aids Law Project (ALP) said on Friday. ”It is also a violation of the deceased’s right to confidentiality, which can have serious repercussions for surviving family members,” the ALP said in a statement.
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/ 24 November 2006
A determined and united effort is needed by world leaders to stop fighting across the world, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was receiving the credentials of new diplomatic envoys from Iceland, Malawi, Canada, Belgium, South Korea and France at a ceremony at the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria.