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/ 8 November 2005
The decision by the deputy director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Lizo Njenje, to resign in exchange for the withdrawal of his court action against Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils — to fight his suspension — was sinister, the Democratic Alliance’s Paul Swart said on Monday.
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/ 8 November 2005
De Beers, the most famous name in diamonds, will on Tuesday unveil the biggest shake-up in its 117-year history when it hands over part of its South African mining arm to black investors. The details will be revealed by De Beers Consolidated Mines’ chairperson, Nicky Oppenheimer, and his MD and younger brother, Jonathan Oppenheimer.
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/ 8 November 2005
Nobody knows how long Deborah ”Bodie” Fisher (85) had been trapped in her home with the corpse of her younger sister, Delia ”Sis” Holloway (82), upstairs and 60cm of flood water downstairs when help finally floated by on September 2. We’ll return for your sister’s body, the rescuers said. Two months on she was still in the house.
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/ 8 November 2005
Australian authorities believe they have foiled a major terrorist attack after arresting 17 people in overnight raids on homes in the country’s two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne. The arrests come less than a week after Prime Minister John Howard said he had received intelligence about a ”terrorist threat” to Australia.
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/ 8 November 2005
French Cabinet ministers were to meet on Tuesday to authorise curfews aimed at stopping rioters after the country’s worst civil unrest in decades raged for a 12th night. Rioters in the southern city of Toulouse ordered passengers off a bus and then set it on fire and pelted police with gasoline bombs and rocks. Youths also torched another bus in the north-eastern Paris suburb of Stains.
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/ 8 November 2005
A woman was stung to death by a swarm of bees that attacked her when her car hit an electric substation in Senderwood on Monday afternoon, Johannesburg metro police said. A massive beehive covering the roof of the substation was disturbed when Mariana Carmichael’s car veered off the road and hit the building.
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/ 8 November 2005
Grokster, which came out on the losing end of a Supreme Court decision, has agreed to shut down its internet file-swapping service and pay $50-million to settle music and movie piracy claims. Grokster executives indicated they plan to launch a legal, fee-based "Grokster 3G" service before year’s end under a new parent company.
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/ 8 November 2005
About 60 people were left homeless on Monday after heavy rains flooded their homes in Dunken village in East London, Eastern Cape disaster-management officials said. ”What made it worse was that there was a blocked pipe near the homes,” said disaster management’s Owen Becker.
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/ 8 November 2005
A prison official is in a critical condition after being shot in a failed escape bid from Zonderwater prison on Sunday. Five prisoners took five officials hostage at the prison’s hospital wing on Sunday. The men were serving a variety of lengthy sentences for murder, armed robbery and possession of arms and ammunition.
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The Scorpions will have to return documents taken from former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s Johannesburg home in August, the Witness website reported on Tuesday. It said this was clear from a sworn statement by Scorpions chief advocate Leonard McCarthy that was handed in at the Durban High Court.