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/ 20 November 2006
Suspended South African Post Office CEO Khutso Mampeule says he is the victim of a ”smear campaign” by members of his board. Mampeule was suspended with full pay on Friday at a meeting of the Post Office’s board, pending the outcome of a disciplinary case against him.
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/ 20 November 2006
Petroleum jelly apparently played a key role in the first escape from Pretoria’s C-Max prison on Saturday night, media reports said on Monday. Annanias Mathe appeared to have stripped and covered his entire body with petroleum jelly to climb out of a window measuring 20cm x 60cm.
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/ 20 November 2006
Journalists should separate facts from opinion, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma told editors on Sunday night — but wouldn’t tell them whether their perception that he wanted to be ANC president was correct. Zuma told the South African National Editors’ Forum that the ”blurring of lines” between facts and opinion led to a dangerous form of advocacy journalism.
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/ 20 November 2006
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday left on a four-day state visit to Iran to beef up trade and political ties with a fellow pariah nation in Western eyes, state radio reported. ”The visit will see the two countries strengthening ties on energy, telecommunications, transport and trade,” it said, without elaborating.
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/ 20 November 2006
For years the portly man dressed in a red tunic and sporting a large white beard has been delighting unsuspecting strangers with his munificence. But now Santa has been forced to hang up his sleigh bells and stay at home — but not before revealing his true identity.
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/ 20 November 2006
Public outrage in the United States over OJ Simpson’s ”hypothetical” description of how he could have killed his ex-wife and her friend has prompted affiliates of the Fox TV network to refuse to screen the interview on the grounds of bad taste. Simpson has secured a ,5-million deal with Rupert Murdoch’s broadcasting and publishing companies companies which includes a Fox TV special.
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/ 20 November 2006
A former Russian spy who is fighting for his life in a London hospital after being poisoned with the toxic metal thallium was targeted because he was an ”enemy of Vladimir Putin”, friends said on Sunday. Doctors treating Alexander Litvinenko, who defected to Britain six years ago, believe he has a 50/50 chance of survival and faces a critical three weeks.
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/ 20 November 2006
Omar sits with his wife and three small children on their only items of furniture, a few cushions and a cheap carpet which covers the floor of a bare concrete room. They escaped from Baghdad last month, joining the quarter of a million Iraqis who have fled from their homes since sectarian violence exploded this year.
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/ 20 November 2006
Percy Zvomuya speaks to director Michael Lessac about theatre confronting pain.
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/ 20 November 2006
Branford Marsalis, McCoy Mrubata, Greg Georgiades and Paul Hanmer may not have planned things this way. But as sometimes happens in the Republic of Bohemia, they find themselves firmly the focus of debate at dinner tables, where conversation revolves around the question: What is jazz? Marsalis took Sunday Times journalist Bongani Madondo to task for […]