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/ 25 October 2006
Trade union Solidarity on Wednesday called for military style training for cash-in-transit security guards in response to the rising number of heists. ”We’re not saying that they don’t receive good training, but we believe that they don’t receive the type of training required to handle these situations,” union spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said
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/ 25 October 2006
While details of the government’s planned spending on the 2010 Soccer World Cup met with acclaim in the National Assembly on Wednesday, some other aspects of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s mini-budget drew criticism. Almost R15-billion over the next three years will go to major capital projects around the 2010 event.
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/ 25 October 2006
Four people accused of killing a suspected thief on a farm in South Africa, who died after being tied to a tree and beaten, walked free from court on Wednesday after murder charges were dropped. After a magistrate ordered that charges of murder be downgraded, the four all pleaded guilty to assault and were each fined R10Â 000 .
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/ 25 October 2006
Four gorillas are leaving Pretoria and heading home to Cameroon in time for Christmas. The International Fund for Animal Welfare said the gorillas, known as the Taiping Four, would probably leave for the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Douala, Cameroon, on December 7.
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/ 25 October 2006
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has insisted his team can still win this season’s Premiership title despite currently being 11 points behind leaders Manchester United. Gerrard, so often Liverpool’s saviour, was well-policed during United’s victory at Old Trafford on Sunday, which meant the Merseysiders have still to win away from Anfield in the league this season.
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/ 25 October 2006
Secrecy is fundamental to the initiation custom, the public hearing on initiation schools heard on Wednesday. The South African Human Rights Commission’s Free State office manager, Mothusi Lepheana, who spoke in his personal capacity, said secrecy is needed to preserve the ”copyright” of the initiation process.
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/ 25 October 2006
The Russian Federation is worried Georgia may try to resolve its problems with two separatist regions by resorting to force and is determined to prevent it doing so, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. The Kremlin leader, answering viewers’ questions on live television, said Moscow had no intention of taking in Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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/ 25 October 2006
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki distanced himself on Wednesday from a United States-announced ”timeline” to end sectarian violence and criticised a raid on a Shi’ite militia stronghold aimed at a death squad leader. Al-Maliki, himself a Shi’ite Muslim, spoke a day after the top US civilian and military officials in Iraq said his government had agreed to a series of steps to end the bloodshed.
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/ 25 October 2006
Now you can make money while you look for a job. A new South African social-networking website, <i><a href="http://www.employmint.co.za/" target="_blank" class="standardtext">Employmint.co.za</a></i>, was launched this week and will be turning the recruitment business on its head.
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/ 25 October 2006
Economists, the ruling party and the official opposition have reacted to the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement tabled in Parliament on Wednesday by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. ”There was nothing really there that was too unexpected,” said George Glynos, market analyst at ETM.