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/ 19 October 2006
About 5 000 residents of Potchefstroom on Thursday protested against a proposal to change the town’s name to Tlokwe. The group, mainly Afrikaners, handed a memorandum to this effect to the executive mayor, Mapetlhe Mapetlhe, said Aksiegroep spokesperson Bertus le Roux.
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/ 19 October 2006
South Africa, burdened with one of the world’s worst Aids crises, should institute mandatory HIV tests through employers, banks and medical-insurance programmes, a senior Aids doctor said on Thursday. ”I don’t think ignorance is a human right,” said Dr Francois Venter, head of the South African HIV Clinicians Society.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Tshwane metro council this week handed in a motion of no confidence against the city’s executive mayor, Gwen Ramokgopa, calling for her immediate resignation. Meanwhile, Tshwane residents are losing their faith in the local government’s bureaucratic system, saying it is a mess and disorganised.
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/ 19 October 2006
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Iran will not back down ”an inch” from its nuclear programme, and launched another attack on Israel, calling it a fraudulent regime that cannot survive. Iran has firmly rejected warnings by the West to Iran to halt its sensitive nuclear activities.
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/ 19 October 2006
Three young giraffes died at a Czech zoo, famed for its work on endangered species, as a result of a power cut, the head of the zoo said on Thursday. ”When the power came on again in their enclosure after the power failure, the animals were startled by the lamps. They bolted and suffered fatal injuries when they fell,” the zoo said.
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/ 19 October 2006
Lance Armstrong has blasted a new book, going on sale on Thursday, that claims to include fresh doping allegations against the seven-time Tour de France champion. LA Officiel has already caused a stir in Armstrong’s camp, which tried to debunk the book before it even hit the store shelves.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Highveld Lions will be pushing hard to establish their spot in the upper region of the log when they play an important double-header in the MTN domestic cricket championship this weekend. The Titans’ victory over the Warriors in East London on Wednesday has opened up the race for the semifinals.
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/ 19 October 2006
Unknown gunmen killed 38 civilians in at least five attacks in southern Sudan, a regional government official said on Thursday. "A group of armed men yesterday [Wednesday] killed 38 people, among whom were women and children," southern Sudan’s interior minister, Paul Mayom Akec, told reporters in Juba.
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/ 19 October 2006
Sexual-harassment claims against former Gauteng minister of social development Bob Mabaso will be internally investigated by the African National Congress (ANC), the party said on Thursday. ”I am ready to take part in the ANC internal disciplinary process to finalise the matter,” said Mabaso.
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/ 19 October 2006
Two men were killed in a light aircraft crash on Thursday morning near Petrusburg in the Free State, police said. Superintendent Sam Sesing said the Piper Cherokee 140 crashed into an open piece of land on the farm Spitskop about 10km west of Petrusburg.