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/ 22 November 2006
Two men were arrested outside Potchefstroom on Wednesday after they allegedly blew up an ATM at a shopping complex and sped off. Superintendent Louis Jacobs said the police were investigating the possibility of linking the two men with a similar incident on November 12 at Wedela on the N12 near Fochville.
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/ 22 November 2006
The township residential property market is showing more vibrancy than that of formerly white suburbs, media reports said on Wednesday. First National Bank Home Loans CEO Ed Grondel said the township market is performing better than the national metropolitan market in more than one respect.
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/ 22 November 2006
It seems an unlikely place for Mali’s president to seek advice in times of crisis. A simple family compound in a bustling working class neighbourhood, where barefoot children compete with goats and belching mopeds for space to play on the dusty streets. But this is no ordinary family.
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/ 22 November 2006
Wealthy tourists jetting into South Africa to stay at luxury safari lodges pay top dollar for the illusion of danger, epitomised by a trumpeting elephant or a lion moving in for a kill. But lodge workers and the impoverished surrounding communities face a threat far more deadly than the leopards and lions that thrill the visitors.
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/ 22 November 2006
The actor Michael Richards, better known as Cosmo Kramer in the long-running TV show Seinfeld, has apologised for a racist outburst that was captured on film and broadcast across the United States. Richards took exception when some black audience members talked during his act at a Los Angeles comedy club on Friday.
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/ 22 November 2006
Iran has promised to support Zimbabwe against ”a few bully nations”, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran did not recognise the current economic sanctions against Zimbabwe imposed by Western countries.
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/ 22 November 2006
The spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic continues unabated, with the number of people infected rising once more in some countries which had been thought to be beating the disease, according to the United Nations. There are now 39,5-million living with HIV infection, according to the annual UNAids report, released ahead of World Aids Day on December 1.
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/ 22 November 2006
The bitter relationship between France and Rwanda sank to new depths on Tuesday after a French judge accused the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, of ordering the assassination of the Hutu president that led to the genocide of 800 000 Tutsis in 1994.
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/ 22 November 2006
Less than six weeks before he steps down as Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan has come up with a political scorecard on the successes and failures of the UN’s much-touted development agenda. The good news is that official development assistance — from rich to poor countries — is reaching a new high.
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/ 22 November 2006
Can you imagine tuning in to your favourite radio station only to hear an audio of someone being murdered? This is how two American shock jocks came to be fired in 2004. Although the situation in South Africa has not reached such tasteless proportions, Matebello Motloung looks at how our local shock jocks are kept in check, and the value they bring to their radio stations.