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/ 14 September 2004
You do the math: can 1 000 firefighters pump 104 000 liters of water from one alpine lake over an 800m-high mountain into another lake 24km away? Helmut Auerbach isn’t sure, either — but he and other organisers of the stunt hope to pull it off and secure a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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/ 14 September 2004
Another victim of the September 1 blast at Sasol’s Secunda plant has died, bringing the death toll to nine, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday. The man died in hospital earlier in the day after two weeks in intensive care, Johan van Rheede said. His name will be withheld until his family had been informed.
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/ 14 September 2004
Strikes of public-service employees will go ahead on Thursday, unions have said. Meanwhile, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has proposed to extend the strike to include Monday and Tuesday next week, and police officers, traffic officials and correctional services officials will join Thursday’s strike.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=122151&t=1">Govt works to avoid massive strike</a>
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/ 14 September 2004
The United States appears headed for a showdown with Iran over the Islamic republic’s alleged nuclear weapons programme, with both sides taking hardline positions on Tuesday at the United Nations atomic agency. Iran has said it will not agree to an unlimited suspension of uranium enrichment.
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/ 14 September 2004
Twenty-nine trees considered rare or facing over-exploitation have been added to a national list of protected species, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Tuesday. ”The new list of protected tree species heralds a milestone in the history of tree protection in this country,” the department said.
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/ 14 September 2004
Three trade unions at Telkom maintained on Tuesday that there is no reason for job cuts at the telecommunications monopoly. A union negotiator told reporters in Johannesburg the unions signed an agreement with Telkom on Monday so they can have some control over the retrenchment process.
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/ 14 September 2004
Security measures at Buckingham Palace need improving, a minister said on Tuesday, a day after a protester dressed as Batman slipped past police and scaled the royal residence’s facade. But people shouldn’t be prevented from coming close to Britain’s main palaces and monuments, Home Secretary David Blunkett added.
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/ 14 September 2004
An Australian man climbed into a lion enclosure at the Melbourne Zoo and attempted to pat the big cats before being captured and taken to a hospital mental ward, police said on Tuesday. A police spokesperson said the man scaled a wire fence around the enclosure at feeding time.
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/ 14 September 2004
The government, led by Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, is set to carry on negotiations with public-sector unions on Tuesday evening, following a failure to reach agreement over Thursday’s threatened public-sector strike. The minister said the government is doing everything in its power to avert a strike.