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/ 24 November 2006
It’s difficult to get a direct answer from the new Auditor General, Terence Nombembe, even to a question as personal and direct as: ”Do you think you should be paid more?” He has a way of responding without really answering the question. To this he would only answer: ”I think I should be paid a package that is commensurate with the job that I do.”
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/ 24 November 2006
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> For a heavily message-driven movie, the actual message of <i>Beat the Drum</i> is pitifully short of content, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 24 November 2006
Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder from beyond the grave on Friday, in a statement read out the morning after he died of an unknown poison in a London hospital. ”You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”
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/ 24 November 2006
Northern Ireland’s Stormont Parliament buildings were evacuated on Friday after a man threw a package at security staff at the entrance to the building where politicians were meeting to discuss self-rule. The man, identified in media reports as notorious former Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone, was wrestled to the ground by security staff and the building evacuated.
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/ 24 November 2006
European aerospace group EADS has postponed until next week a board meeting scheduled for Friday on the future of the Airbus A350 XWB passenger jet programme. The meeting had also been due to discuss possible changes in shareholdings in EADS, said a spokesperson for Lagardere, a French media and technology group.
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/ 24 November 2006
A former manager from German engineering and electronics giant Siemens who was arrested this month has admitted paying massive bribes to the regime of late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha. The manager is among six current and former Siemens employees detained in a huge embezzlement probe into one of Germany’s leading companies.
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/ 24 November 2006
The trial of the two men implicated in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) hoax e-mail saga was postponed in the Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Friday so a third accused could be added. Software salesperson Muziwendoda Kunene and NIA manager for electronic surveillance Funokwakhe Madladla are accused of fraud relating to hoax e-mails.
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/ 24 November 2006
The Indian cricket board asked chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar on Friday to travel to South Africa amid stinging criticism following the team’s bad start to the tour. South Africa crushed India by 157 runs in the second one-day international on Wednesday after skittling them for 91 on a bouncy Durban pitch.
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/ 24 November 2006
The rotting corpses of about 30 men, women and children have been found in mass graves in the strife-torn north-eastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a military prosecutor said on Friday. The remains were found on Wednesday in three graves at Bavi, a town about 40km south of the regional capital Bunia.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africa on Friday signed letters of intent with Guinea to help the West African country revive its transport infrastructure. The signing follows a two-day joint commission headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and her Guinean counterpart, Mamady Conde, in Pretoria.