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/ 16 November 2005
Separated by six decades of bitter hostility, residents of the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir lined their heavily militarised frontier on Wednesday to wave and cheer as officials exchanged aid for victims of the massive quake that rocked the region last month.
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/ 16 November 2005
The huge security operation thrown up around an Asia-Pacific summit faced its first test on Wednesday — from a handful of housewives angry at United States President George Bush. Four middle-aged women, who unfurled banners and shouted slogans, were hauled away by riot police.
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/ 16 November 2005
The government acted against the will of the people of Merafong by passing a Bill in Parliament to incorporate the Gauteng town into the North West province, the South African Communist Party said on Wednesday. ”There’s nothing democratic about what is happening in Merafong,” SACP district secretary Nkosiphendule Kolisile said..
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/ 16 November 2005
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday attacked the United States at the opening of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, for monopolising the governance of the internet. Mugabe said the summit is supposed to engender confidence in internet users outside Europe and North America.
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/ 16 November 2005
Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 68 as South Africa overcame a fighting India by five wickets in Hyderabad on Wednesday to grab a 1-0 lead in the five-match limited-overs series. The victory took South Africa’s unbeaten streak to 20 matches and left them just one short of equalling Australia’s world record of 21 consecutive wins in 2003.
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/ 16 November 2005
Mobile-services company Exactmobile on Wednesday became the first to launch video ringtones and voice messaging via multimedia messaging service (MMS) in South Africa. Exactmobile has licensed software that enables it to convert music videos into a mobile format.
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/ 16 November 2005
China on Wednesday reported its first three confirmed human cases of bird flu. The health ministry confirmed two cases in Hunan province in central China and one in Anhui province in the east, the Xinhua news agency said. Meanwhile, Germany wants the ban on live bird imports into the European Union to be extended into next year.
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/ 16 November 2005
The campuses of the University of South Africa (Unisa) will undergo a R600-million revamp in the next five years, principal Barney Pityana announced on Wednesday. ”The student profile of Unisa is changing and we have seen an increase in the number of younger people choosing to study full-time by long distance,” he said.
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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.