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/ 24 October 2006
In a new satire on Britain’s royal family, they are banished to a rundown housing estate to eke out tawdry lives in a republican land that has spurned them. Best-selling author Sue Townsend, poking gentle fun at a dysfunctionally chaotic House of Windsor, has Queen Elizabeth and her rowdy brood living in exile in a specially fenced off exclusion zone for social misfits.
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/ 24 October 2006
Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour has tabled in Parliament the full executive summary of the final Jali Commission of Inquiry into fraud and corruption in prisons. However, the names of allegedly corrupt officials are omitted.
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/ 24 October 2006
Night of 1Â 000 Drawings, taking place in Johannesburg in November, is based on a concept first implemented in New York. It is a one-night-only exhibition for which anyone, famous or not so famous, can donate drawings. These will be sold to the public for R100 each, with proceeds going to an organisation taking care of the city’s homeless.
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/ 24 October 2006
South Africa’s information technology industry (IT) will need 115 000 professionals ahead of the World Cup in 2010 with Microsoft Certified System Engineers (MCSE) in critical short supply, local IT group said on Tuesday. IT Intellect’s Cape Town branch manager, Shaun Quin, said the mindset that the IT industry was flooded with MCSE’s was wrong as many of them had never been re-skilled on new software.
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/ 24 October 2006
President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday expressed his condolences to the family of singer Lebo Mathosa following her death in a car accident. ”Mathosa’s … death constitutes a profound loss to the entire nation as she was one of the pathfinders of post-apartheid cultural expression,” the Presidency said in a statement.
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/ 24 October 2006
A 23-year-old woman and her four-year-old child were killed in an apparent murder-suicide at a railway line in Kopanong in Tembisa on Tuesday morning, North Rand police said. ”It appears that the woman saw the train approaching and jumped in front of it with her child,” said police spokesperson Cynthia Kleinhans.
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/ 24 October 2006
Johannesburg’s public transport system received a boost on Tuesday when Daimler Chrysler handed 38 new buses to Metrobus. Daimler Chrysler president Wolfgang Biez said the buses would form part of the World-Class Public Transport Programme, which would play a vital role during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
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/ 24 October 2006
Twenty-seven people were arrested for various crimes in Hillbrow during a crime-busting operation in the area, police said on Tuesday. Among those arrested were four men caught trying to break into vehicles on Monday night, said spokesperson Inspector Kriban Naidoo. ”Some people were also arrested for loitering, possession of illegal firearms and armed robberies,” he said.
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/ 24 October 2006
Rescue workers are searching for five mine workers missing after a fall of ground at the Tautona mine near Carletonville, AngloGold Ashanti said on Tuesday. The fall follows two ”seismic events” that happened about 25 minutes apart on Monday afternoon, said spokesperson Steve Lanahan. Two other miners were rescued soon after the incident.
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/ 24 October 2006
A Pretoria man who was stabbed in the chest after becoming involved in a fight at a city high school was in a stable and satisfactory condition in hospital on Tuesday. Pretoria Academic Hospital spokesperson Freedah Kobo said Motheti Madityana (29) was recovering after the incident in which he was stabbed on Monday.