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/ 16 November 2005
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk is selling elephant culling on an international roadshow that will take in at least six countries across the globe. Flanked by officials from the South African National Parks the minister briefed government representatives and international NGOs in four European countries on the need to reduce elephant numbers.
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/ 16 November 2005
It is Sunday morning and at the Donaldson Young Men’s Christian Centre in Orlando East, Soweto, people hurriedly file into the hall. They are members of the Faithways Community Church, started and run by the one-time Urban Bantu Council chief and Soweto mayor in the dark 1980s, David Thebehali.
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/ 16 November 2005
South Africa’s third-largest gold miner, Harmony Gold, on Wednesday announced that it has sold its remaining 26,5-million Gold Fields shares, constituting 5,4% of Gold Fields’ issued shares, at an average price of R93,228 per share. The company garnered R2,46-billion from the Gold Fields sale.
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/ 16 November 2005
Liberian officials on Wednesday opened hearings into claims of vote fraud made by trailing presidential candidate George Weah, who has urged his supporters to quell protests even as the government imposed a ban on demonstrations in the capital. Preliminary results showed that Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf had won nearly 60% of votes.
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/ 16 November 2005
Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political party has demanded an international investigation into allegations that security forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgents at secret jails in Baghdad. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari confirmed on Tuesday that prisoners were found malnourished and possibly tortured by government security forces.
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/ 16 November 2005
At least 800 000 villages — or 30% of the world’s villages — are unconnected to any kind of information and communications technology (ICT), and this requires an investment of about -billion to rectify, said the International Telecommunications Union’s secretary general at the World Summit on Information Society in Tunisia on Tuesday.
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/ 16 November 2005
Eritrea on Wednesday denied a charge that it fuelled street violence that rocked Ethiopia early this month, claiming at least 48 lives, by supporting rebels who want to overthrow the Addis Ababa government. ”We deny this accusation,” Eritrea’s Information Minister Ali Abdu said.
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/ 16 November 2005
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s bid to sequestrate arms-deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne was rejected by a Cape High Court judge on Wednesday. Manuel was seeking to recover almost R1-million in legal fees incurred by the state in fighting a series of court challenges by Crawford-Browne to the multibillion-rand deal.
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/ 16 November 2005
A prominent United States museum curator appeared in court in Rome on Wednesday in a trial designed to assert Italy’s ownership of a large part of the J Paul Getty antiquities collection, and sound a warning to museums elsewhere which may have acquired looted Italian art.
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/ 16 November 2005
The Tshwane metro council met Olievenhoutbosch residents on Wednesday morning following the torching overnight of a councillor’s house and car by locals frustrated with government housing provision. About 500 residents of the informal settlement, outside Centurion, marched on Morudi’s house on Tuesday night.