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  • Dr Pitman and his colleague Dr John Durban helped a BBC film crew capture their behaviour for the TV documentary series Frozen Planet, to be shown later this month.
  • The last was the 2000 Durban Declaration, which reaffirmed that H.I.V. was the cause of AIDS.
  • Turning Wheels organised two blockades at the Marianhill toll plaza on the N3 near Durban last month to highlight what it called lorry drivers 'exploitation and unfair working conditions. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The raids were timed to coincide with a parallel operation by the South African police service in Durban this morning.
  • Unicef was just one of the international agencies in Durban promising to rectify the slowness of its response.
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  • Durban has the most benign tropical climate in Africa.
  • Addressing businessmen at the Durban Country Club, Mdlalose said in a speech prepared for delivery: "These on-the-ground endeavours have resulted in more than 94000 square metres of lettable factory space being taken up, the creation of over 4680 new job opportunities and an influx of over R176 million in new monies. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • They said a survey in an informal settlement in the Durban metropolitan area had shown that half of the children there had a blood lead concentration of above ten micrograms per decilitre of blood. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Medical staff interested in prescribing antiretrovirals were sent on training courses in Durban.
  • DURBAN, South Africa - Twenty-five crew members were rescued by helicopter from a Taiwanese fishing vessel that ran aground near the South African port of Durban, officials said. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Cartwright admits that some host cities, most notably Durban and Cape Town, have tried to initiate projects, but says in general it has been left too late.
  • Some of Nepad's major projects still in the pipeline include a fibre optic submarine cable on the East Coast to connect Durban and Djibouti and the Inga III project in the Congo.
  • The Kyoto Protocol is a cornerstone of the climate change regime," and a second commitment period "is the central priority for Durban," says Jorge Arguello of Argentina, the chairman of the developing countries' negotiating bloc known as G77 plus China. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Shaik sent a telefax to the head of Thomson France, saying that Zuma was extremely concerned about the conduct of the group in South Africa and requested a meeting in Durban to address these concerns. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • And without some healthy cynicism, these inelegantly protracted negotiations could seriously compromise the prospect of a deal being struck in Durban. Jonathan Wootliff: Good News From Durban
  • Ntshanyase is one of more than 100 women who informally mine kaoline at Ndwedwe, which lies in rolling green hills about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the eastern port of Durban. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Durban offers discreet boutique hotels, good shops, restaurants and beaches patrolled by lifeguards. Times, Sunday Times
  • In short, the idea that Durban will result in real action being put off misconceives what we have just agreed to and the full-out effort required in the here and now. Todd D. Stern: Durban: An Important Step Forward in Combating Global Climate Change
  • I have learned tabla and mridangam from a teacher who had come down to Durban not very long ago.
  • The popular holiday destinations just north of Durban are where most people stay.
  • The earliest record I can find of tuna being caught from the shore is a fish of 77.3 kgs (either a bluefin or a yellowfin, and I suspect the latter) being landed from the South Pier in Durban, South Africa, in 1939.
  • DURBAN, Sept 11 (Reuter) - Two men were shot dead in overnight violence in Bhambayi squatter settlement outside Durban, police said on Sunday. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The purpose was so that Independent newspapers could pitch a long-term discounted print advertising package to Durban-based businesses. Muti
  • The Melody, on a cruise from Durban in South Africa to the Italian port of Genoa, was last night continuing to a scheduled stop at Aqaba on the Jordanian coast.
  • The largest city of South Africa, in the northeast part of the country northwest of Durban.
  • He was one of six trainees aboard the Durban-registered yacht which was on a training cruise when it was hit by five-metre swells and a 60 km/h southwester off Kwelera Point near Gonubie.
  • Durban was then a relatively sleepy town in subtropical surroundings. Aaron Klug - Autobiography
  • Like all U.N. gabfests since the first Earth Summit at Rio in 1992, the conference at Durban was but the formal core of a giant carnival, something like a medieval ice fair in a Bruegel painting.
  • The England captain fractured his right scaphoid, the bone between the thumb and the wrist, in the national team's 2-1 win over South Africa in Durban on Thursday.
  • Durban offers discreet boutique hotels, good shops, restaurants and beaches patrolled by lifeguards. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bottles were transported by a courier company and was destined for Durban via Johannesburg.
  • Durban offers discreet boutique hotels, good shops, restaurants and beaches patrolled by lifeguards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jo'burg's 'outies' are reluctantly having to change their travel plans. Their outlawing by the Durban City Council means that few of these self-styled 'gentlemen of the road' will be making their annual trek to Durban.
  • He gets his fabrics from the district or from Durban, a major fabric manufacturing centre.
  • Even those hardcore Fanatics, camped out at Tent City in Durban, were becoming toey yesterday at the prospect of being upstaged by the Kiwis at the greatest game on turf," said the New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
  • Many will attack the Durban deal for its ambiguities and the vagueness of the legal framework. Times, Sunday Times
  • At 18, after a succession of labouring jobs, he joined the Zulu-language Durban newspaper Ilanga lase Natal. Lewis Nkosi obituary
  • Workers at a ferromanganese smelter near Durban were not checked for signs of overexposure to manganese dust and fumes until 2006, an inquiry heard on Friday. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Both Virgin Atlantic and South African Airways offer flights from London Heathrow to Durban.
  • DURBAN, South Africa - South African Red Cross officials appealed Friday for urgent donations for flood victims around the eastern cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • We travel down from Newcastle and Durban twice a year in order to keep the graves neat and tidy.
  • For those who want to enjoy the attractions of Durban without being trapped in the city, a number of coastal resorts are springing up.
  • My roommate was Charlene Wittstock, the backstroker from Durban. An Autobiography
  • This follows reports in Durban's Daily News this month that motorists were deliberately taking their number plates off or splattering them with mud, cooking spray or clear polish to avoid being caught.
  • The Durban Summit drew more than 5000 ministers, ambassadors and delegates.
  • The ANC congratulated "those members of the police force who displayed sensitivity and acted with restraint at the flashpoints that occurred in cities such as Port Elizabeth and Durban". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Now, the eyes of the world are back on Durban for a conclave on another hard nut to crack: racism.
  • The KwaZulu-Natal health department has denied that there is an outbreak of klebsiella at Durban's Prince Mshiyeni Hospital, the ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The recovery in Durban capped the year, but a non-stop schedule on tour will hamper this team's development
  • In Dublin last night was Arthur Knox, chairman of the Durban Insizwa Mining Company with sole rights to the mining of the mineral in South Africa.
  • Frommel, a young boerbul, was allegedly shot by Durban man Arthur da Silva after he got into an altercation with Da Silva's German Shepherd. IOL: News
  • DURBAN, March 19 (Reuter) - About 120 Zulus on Saturday vowed they would occupy an KwaMashu stadium to prevent the ANC from holding an election rally in the township near Durban. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • That nearly decade-long path forward -- as well as the linguistic jujitsu that led to dropping the term "legally binding" from the Durban agreement -- left some critics decrying the talks as producing too little and increasingly, too late. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • DURBAN - At least 11 blacks were killed when attackers raided an African National Congress aligned section of a black squatter settlement near South Africa's port city of Durban, police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • DURBAN, March 26 (Reuter) - SADF troops moved into Bhambayi squatter settlement south of Durban on Saturday after four people, including two toddlers, were shot dead in ANC-Inkatha clashes overnight, witnesses and police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The entrance doors are huge wooden slabs, engraved in sign language by Durban craftspeople, depicting the 27 themes of the Bill of Rights.
  • Against all odds, we, the drowsy and starving passengers who had to forego refreshment stops along the way to make up for lost time, entered the city of Durban.
  • He was a Christian minister called Laputa, and he was going among the tribes from Durban to the Zambesi as a roving evangelist. Prester John
  • Durban, the last three hundred or so of which we had to make on foot, owing to the frequent presence of the dreadful "tsetse" fly, whose bite is fatal to all animals except donkeys and men. King Solomon's Mines
  • Arrows have proven the nemesis of most teams visiting Durban and have established themselves as a formidable outfit.
  • This hotel manages to be rather grand and informal at the same time and is ten miles north of Durban. Times, Sunday Times
  • And now Nersa is in effect being held to ransom by Transnet, which is seeking a huge tariff increase on its existing Durban-Johannesburg pipeline without which, it says, it cannot finance the new pipeline. AllAfrica News: Latest
  • It was expected that the controlled area, which already included 16 magisterial districts between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, would be significantly expanded and could include hundreds of square kilometres.
  • Because the most crucial lesson in Durban was that this tragedy is preventable.
  • This hotel manages to be rather grand and informal at the same time and is ten miles north of Durban. Times, Sunday Times
  • DURBAN, South Africa, March 9 (Reuter) - Police said on Wednesday they were investigating 64 counts of culpable homicide against the driver of a commuter train that crashed near Durban on ANC Daily News Briefing
  • DURBAN, South Africa - The bodies of at least seven people were found in Bhambayi black township near the port of Durban early, the eve of national safety and security day, police said. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The Delphin, which docked in Cape Town yesterday, will set sail from Port Elizabeth and spend a day here before her onward journey to Durban.
  • The Durban-based yacht was off Kwelera Point near Gonubie, but the swell, whipped up by a 60 km/h southwester, prevented the rescue boat from coming alongside.
  • DURBAN, March 1 (Reuter) - ANC President Nelson Mandela and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi went into a face-to-face meeting on their own in Durban on Tuesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The latest victim was a 44-year-old woman on holiday with her boyfriend at a caravan park south of Durban.
  • Royal Navy veterans in South Africa rolled out the red carpet for a British auxiliary when it paid a visit to the port of Durban.
  • The win will boost the team's morale ahead of the first round of the IRB rugby sevens tournament which kicks off in Durban next week.
  • All traffic through the Free State was of course interrupted, and to reach Natal involved a railway journey of 700 miles by De Aar Junction and Stormberg to Port Elizabeth, and thence by a small mailboat or tug to Durban—four days in all. MY EARLY LIFE
  • The processed kaoline is sold to porcelain factories in Durban. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The home side can insist all they like that Durban was an ‘even’ match, but the fact is that had England managed to win, as they certainly deserved to, it would have represented one of the greatest fightbacks in Test history.
  • Durban can build a new cemetery for 8 million rand ($1.25 million) every week without spending even a twentieth of their budget.

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