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/ 26 November 2005
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni remained defiant in the face of pressure from British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the first day of the Commonwealth conference on Friday over the arrest of the country’s opposition leader. Museveni made it clear he was not going to take any lectures from Blair.
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/ 26 November 2005
The government will only consider bringing in the defence force to tackle cash-in-transit gunmen and mall robbers if the situation is ”out of control”, the Department of Safety and Security said on Friday. ”If things turn out of control, I am sure the necessary steps can and will be considered,” a departmental spokesperson said.
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/ 26 November 2005
Power was restored all parts of the Western Cape on Friday after a controlled blackout earlier in the day, but Eskom has appealed for people to use electricity sparingly. The outages followed a shutdown of Koeberg nuclear power station, which supplies the bulk of the Western Cape’s electricity.
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/ 26 November 2005
South Africans have a growing appetite for newspapers, but the vast menu of magazines is not as palatable, according to the newly released Amps 2005 readership figures. However, the print industry, ”as well as its brothers and cousins in neighbouring media, is alive and well”, Starcom MD Gordon Patterson said on Friday.
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/ 26 November 2005
Election observers have predicted a low turnout in Zimbabwe on Saturday for a Senate vote amid apathy, a split within the opposition and concern the poverty-stricken country cannot afford the new Upper House of Parliament. The government estimates annual costs of the Upper House at about Z-billion (-million).
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/ 26 November 2005
In South Africa’s picturesque but Aids-ravaged Zulu heartland, the pandemic is rarely discussed and victims suffer in silence due to a mixture of ignorance, denial and fear. Nokuthula (54), who has been living with the disease for several years, says: ”If I tell the other people, they will be frightened and they will think I am going to die.”
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/ 26 November 2005
At least 14 died, hundreds more were injured and thousands of houses collapsed when an earthquake measuring 5,7 on the Richter scale hit near a popular tourist spot in east China on Saturday, officials said. The epicentre was near the city of Jiujiang, home to 500 000 people and a scenic spot for centuries.
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/ 26 November 2005
Fixed-line telecommunications company Telkom has a lot of catching up to do with mobile telephone services, according to market-research company Synovate’s latest findings. Telkom showed the most marked decline in customer-satisfaction ratings, said spokesperson Jon Salters.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa trounced India by 10 wickets on Friday in their fourth limited-overs international in Kolkota on Friday. Proteas captain Graeme Smith led the charge with a smashing 134 not out at the jam-packed Eden Gardens. South Africa now leads 2-1 in the five-match series with the final match to be played Monday.
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/ 25 November 2005
A group of Zimbabwe national team cricketers who met after the resignation of captain Tatenda Taibu are to consider their own positions over the weekend. They are scheduled to meet again on Monday after making up their own minds whether to stay with the Zimbabwe team or seek new careers — inside or outside the game.