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/ 17 November 2006
The Gauteng Cricket Board announced on Friday that it would take firm action against any spectator guilty of racial abuse during the tours by India and Pakistan. Chief executive Alan Kourie said that following incidents of racial abuse reported from Australia, the board had decided to pay careful attention to the situation at matches at the Wanderers.
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/ 17 November 2006
A Zimbabwean student’s application to be sent for psychiatric evaluation following his alleged attempt to hijack a South African Airways (SAA) flight was on Friday postponed in the Bellville Regional Court. Lawyer Reuben Liddell will now, on Tuesday, launch the application to have Tinashe Rioga sent to the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital to assess whether he is fit to stand trial.
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/ 17 November 2006
New data shows a child is abused every hour in Zimbabwe and more than half the reported cases involve sexual abuse, a coalition of child protection groups said on Friday. ”Are Zimbabweans really horrified by these statistics?” said Childline director Audrey Gumbo.
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/ 17 November 2006
Roger Southall surveys the fourth annual edition of State of the Nation by the HSRC Press, and reflects on its three predecessors.
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/ 17 November 2006
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has urged South Africans to rise above their sectarian interests and unite in the fight against HIV and Aids. In an article on the African National Congress’s website on Friday, she called for the country’s citizens to use World Aids Day on December 1 to join hands against the pandemic.
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/ 17 November 2006
England pace spearhead Steve Harmison is in doubt for next week’s Ashes opener with a side strain that forced him out of the tourists’ final lead-up match on Friday. Harmison, who has taken 179 wickets in 45 Tests, was left out of the three-day tour practice match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval as a precaution.
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/ 17 November 2006
Flash floods caused by heavy rains have killed nearly 50 people in western Afghanistan, with 60 more missing, the Afghan Health Ministry said on Friday. Afghanistan, especially the west and south, has been in the grip of drought but heavy rains started falling in several areas in the past week.
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/ 17 November 2006
A tornado flipped cars, shredded trees and ripped mobile homes to pieces in the little riverside community of Riegelwood, North Carolina, early on Thursday, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The disaster brought the two-day death toll from a devastating line of thunderstorms that swept across the United States South to 12.
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/ 17 November 2006
A fortnight ago, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its Human Development Report 2006 in Cape Town — a diabolically appropriate choice. South Africa is apparently considered the UNDP’s ideal setting — and maybe deservedly so — for what might be called ”talk left” policies accompanied by ”turn right” practices: turning the tap off, that is to say.
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/ 17 November 2006
<b>COMEDY OF THE YEAR:</b> Much of the humour in Borat is anti-Semitic, which is to say a vicious parody of unthinkingly vicious anti-Semitism, writes Shaun de Waal.