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/ 24 October 2006
Officially the ”Democratic Republic of Pavón” was a prison farm outside Guatemala City, a patch of scrubland where inmates would grow vegetables and tend livestock in one of Latin America’s more progressive penal institutions. Recently a very different image emerged.
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/ 23 October 2006
The multibillion-rand 2010 World Cup stadium construction project, with its time frame of 18 to 34 months, was always going to cause disagreement in the very fragile relationship between politics and common sense. The bill for the stadiums has ballooned from R2-billion to R9-billion before work has even begun.
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/ 23 October 2006
The final step in harmonising finance, investment and other macroeconomic policies in Southern Africa, which could lead to the increase of foreign direct investment in the region, was taken on Monday. The majority of members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) signed the Protocol on Finance and Investment.
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/ 23 October 2006
Hungarian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Monday to disperse anti-government protesters marching on Parliament on the 50th anniversary of the country’s uprising against Soviet rule. Local news agency MTI said several people had been injured in the clashes in central Budapest.
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/ 23 October 2006
A 13-year-old pupil was rushed to hospital after he was stabbed by a fellow Edleen Primary School pupil on Monday, said the Gauteng department of education. ”It’s disturbing because all along it’s been taking place in high schools and this time it is primary school pupils,” said spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi.
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/ 23 October 2006
Three South Africans were among four passengers in a helicopter that crash-landed in a built-up area of São Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. ”All survived the emergency landing,” said Foreign affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa in Pretoria on Monday. He said one of the three injured South Africans was in a critical condition in a São Paolo hospital.
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/ 23 October 2006
In November 2004, after the death of pop icon Brenda Fassie, singer Lebo Mathosa told the Mail & Guardian in an interview: ”You can’t deny death, you can’t fear it. I’m sure God has a better place for us, if you’re a believer.” Two years later, in a twist of fate, 29-year-old Mathosa, like her controversial role model, has moved on to that ”better place”.
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/ 23 October 2006
Teachers support the statement by Minister of Education Naledi Pandor that school safety needs to be addressed immediately, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) said on Monday. ”Naptosa and its members commit themselves to supporting any initiative from the Department of Education to address the problem of safety in schools,” Naptosa president Dave Malt said.
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/ 23 October 2006
A fraud convict allegedly used the internet while serving time in prison to devise scams to fleece golf enthusiasts of millions of rands, the Wynberg Regional Court heard on Monday. A document handed to Magistrate Robert Henney told how Maurice de Grandhomme was assigned by the prison authorities to take charge of the kiosk at the Pollsmoor Prison golf driving range.