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/ 24 November 2006
A bus driver who was 13 times over the legal alcohol limit while driving a bus load of schoolchildren had a simple request for police who arrested him for drunken driving, an Australian court heard on Wednesday. ”Can I finish my run, at least to drop these kids off?”
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/ 24 November 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Friday lauded the Holcim-AfriSam deal and lambasted those questioning the Swiss cement company’s motive in selling most of its South African subsidiary to a black consortium. Mbeki said Holcim had decided it made good commercial sense for Holcim South Africa to be black-owned and controlled.
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/ 24 November 2006
A plan to roll and smoke the world’s largest joint was cancelled in Amsterdam when the organisers realised they could be breaking the law. ”We have now read the small print and realise there could be problems,” Thijs Verheij was quoted as saying by ANP news agency after consulting Dutch drugs laws.
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/ 24 November 2006
Indigenous evergreen forests comprise only 0,56% of South Africa’s land surface area. These forests form the smallest of our natural biomes, made up mostly of tiny slivers and corners, coppices scattered across the land. There are the greater forests of Knysna and places like Dukuduku in KwaZulu-Natal, but political, social and commercial forces are putting enormous strain on these.
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/ 24 November 2006
A Johannesburg woman told delegates to an international conference at the University of Cape Town on Thursday how she was robbed of her car last month by ”humane” hijackers — one of whom even gave her advice on how to avoid being hijacked again in future.
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/ 24 November 2006
A 64-year-old Palestinian woman blew herself up as a suicide bomber in Gaza on Thursday in an attack on Israeli troops. Two soldiers were slightly injured when the woman, apparently a supporter of the Hamas militant group, detonated explosives strapped to her body, becoming the conflict’s oldest suicide bomber.
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/ 24 November 2006
French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday. He was 76. Noiret was one of the most prolific and successful actors of his generation, starring in a string of cinema hits over the past five decades, including the hugely popular 1988 Franco-Italian comedy Cinema Paradiso.
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/ 24 November 2006
Police in Gauteng are planning an offensive against crime over the festive season. Preparation includes gathering information on what syndicates are planning and updating their list of the most wanted criminals, said police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman.
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/ 24 November 2006
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon on Friday accused the Presidency of ”a glaring double standard” in its treatment of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Writing in his weekly newsletter, Leon referred to the September 7 2003 allegation that then-National Prosecuting Authority director Bulelani Ngcuka had been a police spy during the apartheid era.
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/ 24 November 2006
Police on Friday said that the man who escaped from the high-security C-Max prison in Pretoria on the weekend has ”the luck of the devil”. ”He must be the devil’s child himself because we get new leads every day but he has not yet been arrested,” said investigating officer Arnold Boonstra. ”He seems to have the luck of the devil.”