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/ 2 September 2004
A man shot dead his girlfriend, a 31-year-old schoolteacher, before committing suicide at the Newlands East Secondary School in Durban on Thursday. Police said the 35-year-old man went to the teacher’s classroom on Thursday morning, called her outside and shot her in the head before turning the gun on himself.
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/ 2 September 2004
A special initiative to rid Africa of vast stockpiles of poisonous, obsolete chemical pesticides posing serious health risks has been launched by the African Stockpiles Programme (ASP). ASP plans to get rid of an estimated 50 000 tons of toxic pesticides and waste, as well as tens of thousands of tons of contaminated soil.
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/ 2 September 2004
Spanish women are the longest living group of people in Europe, according to figures from the EU’s Eurostat department. They live to an average age of 83,7, three years longer than women in Britain, whose average is 80,7 years. Men in Britain live to 76,2 years on average.
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/ 2 September 2004
It looks like 2004 is going to be a bumper year for the South African motor industry — reflecting the strength of consumer and business spending at the moment, which is likely to continue. The motor industry produced another excellent sales month in August, exceeding sales during the same month last year by 18,8%.
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/ 2 September 2004
Google employees and other insiders will be free to sell an additional 4,67-million shares of the company’s stock on Thursday, providing another test of the online search engine’s popularity with investors. The Google shares eligible to begin trading on Thursday represent the first in several waves of insider stock that could pour into the market during the next few months.
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/ 2 September 2004
Charles Jenkins (64) an American soldier accused of defecting to North Korea nearly 40 years ago, said on Wednesday he would soon give himself up to United States military authorities. ”I will soon voluntarily face the charges that have been filed against me by the US army,” he said in a statement from Japan, where he now lives with his Japanese wife and two daughters.
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/ 2 September 2004
Africa’s story should be told by African journalists, not by foreigners who have a tendency to set their own agendas, Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said on Wednesday. He said the current situation ”where the world relied on foreign news agencies for stories about the region was not conducive as there was the risk of distortion”.
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/ 2 September 2004
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that was discovered last week in Zambia’s Southern Province has spread to various parts of the country, threatening beef exports, an official said on Thursday. The disease, which usually kills cattle, is spreading quickly in the Southern African country because of a lack of vaccines.
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/ 2 September 2004
A 25-year-old construction worker was killed when the roof of Centurion Mall in Pretoria collapsed on Wednesday night, Pretoria police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola said the man’s body was discovered in the rubble at about 10pm on Wednesday and retrieved at 1.30am.
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/ 2 September 2004
Twenty dams will be built over the next 20 years at the cost of R21-billion, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in Cape Town on Wednesday. Addressing the media at a post-Cabinet briefing, Sonjica said the Cabinet had approved South Africa’s first national water resource strategy, which would ensure that ”we use our nation’s limited water resources to achieve a better life for all South Africans”.