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/ 31 October 2005
Cyclists from all over the world are gearing up for Tour d’Afrique, the world’s toughest bicycle tour, which stretches from Cairo to Cape Town and covers 10 African countries and a distance of 12 000km. On January 14 next year, participants will start their 120-day journey from the ancient pyramids in Egypt.
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/ 24 October 2005
A new black economic empowerment (BEE) share scheme at Nedbank, called Eyethu, will most likely be tested in the Equality Court after a complaint by one of its members, said labour union Solidarity on Sunday. A "white" member of Solidarity was turned away twice from Nedbank last week, the union said.
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/ 20 October 2005
Only a small number of Gauteng motorists on Thursday appeared to have heeded the government’s call to participate in Car-Free Day. Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe was walking and taking taxis in the Pretoria city centre on Thursday, raising awareness of Car-Free Day.
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/ 12 October 2005
Hackers can bring a cellular network to a standstill by flooding it with SMSs equivalent to spam, say computer researchers in the United States. However, a local mobile messaging expert told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> that such messages would only congest the network for a "couple of seconds".
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/ 10 October 2005
”The first thought that came to my mind was that someone is bulldozing our house,” wrote a blogger from Islamabad, Pakistan, close to the epicentre of Saturday’s massive South Asian earthquake that killed up to 40 000 people. Read what other bloggers from Pakistan experienced in the disaster.
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/ 10 October 2005
South Africa is dispatching doctors, medicines and food to earthquake-ravaged Pakistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The department told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Monday that it does not know of any South Africans who died or were injured in the quake.
Comedian Marc Lottering plans to become a walking, talking condom dispenser, to ”encourage all Capetonians to protect themselves and to survive”, he said in a statement announcing the launch of an innovative nationwide HIV/Aids pledge campaign this weekend. Pledges will be not for money, but rather for action.
"Clean-shaven, straight teeth and a friendly smile … in a word, handsome. After a week of vigorous SMSing and long phone conversations, "handsome" and I decide to meet. Eager to see each other in real life, we meet in a parking lot — and as I walk towards him, my excitement is replaced with anger almost immediately," writes Reesha Chibba.
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/ 29 September 2005
”The Independent Democrats in Gauteng have lost their engine room,” the Democratic Alliance’s provincial leader in Gauteng, Ian Davidson, claimed on Thursday. According to a statement released by the DA, 11 leading ID office-bearers — including provincial chairperson Peter Batchelor — are joining the DA.
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/ 28 September 2005
”If a plumber doesn’t join a pipe correctly, you have a leak; if an electrician doesn’t do it properly, the light doesn’t work. If [metro police officers] make the wrong decision, people get denied their freedoms, or they die if we make the wrong decisions.” Police chief Robert McBride believes his officers have serious authority, and with it should come stricter codes of conduct.