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/ 25 October 2006
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has insisted his team can still win this season’s Premiership title despite currently being 11 points behind leaders Manchester United. Gerrard, so often Liverpool’s saviour, was well-policed during United’s victory at Old Trafford on Sunday, which meant the Merseysiders have still to win away from Anfield in the league this season.
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/ 25 October 2006
Secrecy is fundamental to the initiation custom, the public hearing on initiation schools heard on Wednesday. The South African Human Rights Commission’s Free State office manager, Mothusi Lepheana, who spoke in his personal capacity, said secrecy is needed to preserve the ”copyright” of the initiation process.
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/ 25 October 2006
The Russian Federation is worried Georgia may try to resolve its problems with two separatist regions by resorting to force and is determined to prevent it doing so, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. The Kremlin leader, answering viewers’ questions on live television, said Moscow had no intention of taking in Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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/ 25 October 2006
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki distanced himself on Wednesday from a United States-announced ”timeline” to end sectarian violence and criticised a raid on a Shi’ite militia stronghold aimed at a death squad leader. Al-Maliki, himself a Shi’ite Muslim, spoke a day after the top US civilian and military officials in Iraq said his government had agreed to a series of steps to end the bloodshed.
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/ 25 October 2006
Now you can make money while you look for a job. A new South African social-networking website, <i><a href="http://www.employmint.co.za/" target="_blank" class="standardtext">Employmint.co.za</a></i>, was launched this week and will be turning the recruitment business on its head.
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/ 25 October 2006
Economists, the ruling party and the official opposition have reacted to the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement tabled in Parliament on Wednesday by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. ”There was nothing really there that was too unexpected,” said George Glynos, market analyst at ETM.
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/ 25 October 2006
The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) called on Wednesday for a commission of inquiry into Bloemfontein’s flying squad, allegedly caught watching a pornographic movie while telephones rang unanswered. Free State ACDP leader Casper Nordier said far too many media reports showed problems at Bloemfontein’s flying squad.
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/ 25 October 2006
The body of one of the five mine workers trapped underground at AngloGold Ashanti’s Tau Tona mine near Carletonville has been found, the company said on Wednesday afternoon. This, coupled with conditions at the scene, offered little hope that the remaining four miners will be found alive, said spokesperson Steve Lenahan.
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/ 25 October 2006
Fighters loyal to Somalia’s weak government and powerful Islamist movement girded for battle on Wednesday outside the government’s temporary seat in Baidoa, as tensions between the rivals soared. Amid conflicting statements, government troops dug trenches around the town, preparing for a feared advance, witnesses said.
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/ 25 October 2006
The government will be spending close to R2,3-billion on its HIV/Aids programme by 2010, according to the mini-Budget tabled in Parliament on Wednesday. The figure was contained in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, which gave no breakdown of how the amount was arrived at.