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In his defence, Malema told the court the firearm was not his and that he had fired the shots to rouse the crowd, the publication added.

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In Lenox’s 15th outing, the detective, painfully aware he’s now 50, must rouse himself from lingering fatigue and physical pain from a stab wound sustained while in America.

Colbert had already gotten a rousing standing ovation Sunday when he presented the first award of the evening.

He received rousing applause when he told the crowd: “This is not a battle of right versus left, this is a battle of good versus evil.”

However, he seemed to have succeeded at the 2009 Labour Party conference when Mandelson delivered a rousing speech to despondent delegates, telling them: "If I can come back, we can come back."

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