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/ 24 November 2006
Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi’ite area. Two suicide bombs ripped through a Shi’ite market in northern Iraq killing 22 people earlier on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighbourhoods.
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/ 24 November 2006
The investigation into service delivery by the Department of Land Affairs was a welcome development, said AgriSA on Friday. ”AgriSA has been concerned for some time about processes that were delayed in the department and the commission on restitution of land rights,” said Dr Theo de Jager, chairperson of the AgriSA land-affairs committee.
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/ 24 November 2006
Listing Aids as the cause of death on public death certificates will not in any way improve the collection of statistics on HIV-related deaths, the Aids Law Project (ALP) said on Friday. ”It is also a violation of the deceased’s right to confidentiality, which can have serious repercussions for surviving family members,” the ALP said in a statement.
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/ 24 November 2006
A determined and united effort is needed by world leaders to stop fighting across the world, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was receiving the credentials of new diplomatic envoys from Iceland, Malawi, Canada, Belgium, South Korea and France at a ceremony at the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria.
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/ 24 November 2006
India’s cricket authorities on Friday asked chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar to fly to South Africa following the team’s crushing defeat in the second one-day international in Durban. Rahul Dravid’s Indians were widely criticised in the cricket-crazy country following their 157-run defeat on a pacy Durban track on Wednesday.
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/ 24 November 2006
Lebanon’s Cabinet is to meet on Saturday for the next step towards approving a United Nations plan for an international court to try those accused of murdering ex-premier Rafiq al-Hariri, in a move set to trigger a showdown with the pro-Syrian opposition.
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/ 24 November 2006
The longer police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi stays in office, the stronger will be the impression that ”with the right friends, one could get away with murder”, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Friday. ”It is in the interests of combating crime in South Africa that Selebi vacates his position,” a party spokesperson said.
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/ 24 November 2006
Industry players bemoaned a crippling lack of government funding at the Sithengi Film and Television Market last week. Fred Katerere reports.
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/ 24 November 2006
The issue of audience development was hotly debated at Sithengi, writes Nadia Neophytou.
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/ 24 November 2006
A ”generally apathetic attitude” characterised the administration of South Africa’s pension funds, according to the Pension Funds Adjudicator. ”That things are no better in other countries, like England, is no reason for the generally apathetic attitude that appears to have taken root here,” the 2005 annual report of the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator, released on Friday, said.