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/ 24 November 2006
India’s cricket authorities on Friday asked chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar to fly to South Africa following the team’s crushing defeat in the second one-day international in Durban. Rahul Dravid’s Indians were widely criticised in the cricket-crazy country following their 157-run defeat on a pacy Durban track on Wednesday.
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/ 24 November 2006
Lebanon’s Cabinet is to meet on Saturday for the next step towards approving a United Nations plan for an international court to try those accused of murdering ex-premier Rafiq al-Hariri, in a move set to trigger a showdown with the pro-Syrian opposition.
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/ 24 November 2006
The longer police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi stays in office, the stronger will be the impression that ”with the right friends, one could get away with murder”, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Friday. ”It is in the interests of combating crime in South Africa that Selebi vacates his position,” a party spokesperson said.
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/ 24 November 2006
Industry players bemoaned a crippling lack of government funding at the Sithengi Film and Television Market last week. Fred Katerere reports.
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/ 24 November 2006
The issue of audience development was hotly debated at Sithengi, writes Nadia Neophytou.
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/ 24 November 2006
A ”generally apathetic attitude” characterised the administration of South Africa’s pension funds, according to the Pension Funds Adjudicator. ”That things are no better in other countries, like England, is no reason for the generally apathetic attitude that appears to have taken root here,” the 2005 annual report of the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator, released on Friday, said.
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/ 24 November 2006
Forensic experts exhumed the remains of 156 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave found in an eastern Bosnian village, an official of a commission for missing persons said on Friday. Ninety complete and 66 incomplete bodies were found, Murat Hurtic of the Muslim-Croat federation’s commission for missing persons said.
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/ 24 November 2006
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) on Friday denied media reports that the SPCA euthanises dogs donated by the police. SPCA spokesperson Christine Kuch said the statement, made on Talk Radio 702 on Friday, was ”damaging”.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa’s medical-tourism industry has skyrocketed with the number of overseas patients drawn by ”scalpel safari” packages more than doubling in three years, an expert said on Friday. The booming sector now earns about R260-million annually, Martin Kelly, president of the Association for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, told the media.
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/ 24 November 2006
Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Friday condemned the leak of internal reports to the media. The Star reported on Friday that a confidential report had described Cosatu president Willie Madisha as power hungry, dishonest and misled by President Thabo Mbeki.