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/ 7 March 2007

At least 49 dead in Indonesia plane disaster

A Boeing 737-400 passenger jet burst into flames when it landed at Yogyakarta in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and leaving dozens more burnt and wounded, officials said. Witnesses said the front wheel of the Garuda Indonesia plane blew out as it touched down, sending flames shooting into the air and triggering a series of explosions.

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/ 8 January 2004

Everyday visions of faith

A woman living in the Western Cape town of Bellville East believes she has been receiving what she describes as "visions of the Saviour". Betty Deventer, an Absa bank accountant’s widow, has spoken of seeing the face of Jesus in her domestic endeavours, including in the arrangement of her dogs’ blankets and a plate of vegetable curry.

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/ 8 January 2004

‘Old’ National Party to be revived

Interesting new evidence has appeared that seems to confirm rumours that secret plans are underway to re-establish a political party that has long since been declared dead and buried. <i>Not the Mail & Guardian</i> has come into possession of documents that reveal detailed strategies, internal correspondence and part of a “mission statement” behind the re-emergence of what is to be called the Old National Party (ONP).

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/ 8 January 2004

The last outpost

A new Afrikaner resistance group has been founded and is gathering members at a rate described as "frantic". Calling itself the Afrikaner Young Women’s Union (AYWU), the group has its base in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, an area known as home to the more progressive of Afrikaans political thinking. As its name suggests, the AYWU is entirely female in origin and style.