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Chris Gayle smashed 133 not out to power holders West Indies into their third Champions Trophy final with a six-wicket victory over South Africa on Thursday. The 27-year-old Jamaican stroked his third hundred of the tournament after a 154-run opening partnership with fellow left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul to guide West Indies to 262-4 in 44 overs in reply to South Africa’s 258-8.
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/ 2 November 2006
The nine provinces have vastly improved their spending patterns in the first six months of 2006/07, the National Treasury said on Thursday. They spent on average 45,2% or R82,7-billion of their combined budgets of R183-billion. ”This represents a spending increase year-on-year of 11,4% or R8,4-billion higher than for the same period last year,” the Treasury said in a statement.
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/ 2 November 2006
The Karoo Array Telescope (Kat) will focus on leading-edge astronomic discoveries and help boost South Africa’s Nobel prize hopes in physics, Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena said on Thursday. ”The Kat will focus on such leading-edge discoveries and push our understanding of the space frontier even further.
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/ 2 November 2006
PW Botha will be remembered with ”hatred and disgust” as a brutal dictator who presided over a system that denied the majority all their basic human rights, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday. ”His hands were stained with the blood of hundreds who were murdered …,” Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said.
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/ 2 November 2006
The British population rose by 500 people a day in 2005 as the number of new immigrants dwarfed the total leaving the country, official figures showed on Thursday. The Office for National Statistics said the net migration total for last year was 185Â 000, down from 223Â 000 in 2004.
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/ 2 November 2006
Over 8Â 000 health practitioners have been struck off the roll after failing to pay their annual fees, the Health Professionals’ Council of South Africa (HPSCA) said on Thursday. ”A total of 8Â 593 health professionals have been struck off the roll after failing to meet the deadline,” said HPCSA spokesperson Tendai Dhliwayo.
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/ 2 November 2006
Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula and several Cabinet colleagues in his cluster will meet with the Big Business Working Group on Friday to discuss their joint programme to fight crime. The meeting in Johannesburg comes only weeks after the two groups agreed on ways to fight crime.
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/ 2 November 2006
The Sunday Times has a ”revolutionary plan” to start a free daily newspaper, to be launched by March next year, media analyst Anton Harber says on his blog. The paper will apparently be delivered for free to Sunday Times subscribers — a unique way of launching a free newspaper.
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/ 2 November 2006
Renaming the Union Buildings — the seat of government in Pretoria — could take years, said the Ministry of Arts and Culture on Thursday. ”That could, as in the case of the OR Tambo [International airport] name change, take up to three years,” said ministry spokesperson Sandile Memela.
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Europe is facing an obesity epidemic by the end of the decade, which will increase health costs and hamper economic development, health experts said on Thursday. Up to 23% of men and as many as 36% of women in Europe are obese, and one third of children are overweight.