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/ 20 December 2005
A national lottery ticket worth R10 066 972 expired on Sunday after the winner didn’t claim the prize, said Uthingo spokesperson Shenanda Janse van Rensburg on Tuesday. The Quickpick ticket was bought in Gauteng for the draw that took place on Saturday December 18 last year.
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/ 16 December 2005
”I am relieved, so relieved,” said an exhausted looking Trevor Ncube, the owner and publisher of the Mail & Guardian newspaper, after he landed in Johannesburg on Friday morning, exactly a week after his passport was confiscated by Zimbabwean authorities.
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/ 14 December 2005
Trevor Ncube, owner and publisher of the Mail & Guardian, is effectively under country arrest in Zimbabwe after his passport was confiscated upon his arrival in Bulawayo last week, said the board of M&G Media, which publishes the M&G, on Tuesday. It is a ”sad day for Africa”, said chairperson of the board Professor William Makgoba.
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/ 12 December 2005
Lawyers for Trevor Ncube, owner of the Mail & Guardian, filed an urgent application in the Zimbabwe High Court on Monday against that country’s relevant authorities to explain why his passport was confiscated last week.
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/ 12 December 2005
Lawyers for Trevor Ncube, owner of the Mail & Guardian, will be filing an urgent application in the Zimbabwe High Court on Monday against that country’s relevant authorities to explain why his passport was confiscated last week. ”I don’t see why they would not want to give me back my passport,” Ncube said on Monday morning.
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/ 10 December 2005
For 16 days a year, South Africans are asked to become activists against the abuse of women and children. For Shann Sauls, all it took to escape the cycle of violence was for someone to believe her story. Sauls broke her silence in June this year after nearly a decade of being sexually assaulted by her stepfather.
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/ 2 December 2005
One of South Africa’s most successful opera singers, Deon van der Walt, was found dead on Thursday at his family’s wine estate in northern Paarl after being shot twice in the chest. During his career as tenor, Van der Walt performed in many prestigious opera houses and won several prizes.
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/ 1 December 2005
The funeral industry in South Africa seems to be shrouded in mystery — and now allegations of racism and corruption have surfaced. The industry is, by its nature, a secretive one. What goes on in the morgue stays in the morgue — unless one is caught, such as the police officer who was found sodomising a corpse in the Salt River mortuary in Cape Town.
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/ 28 November 2005
Health officials in the Eastern Cape are still searching for 19 boys believed to be at an illegal initiation school in the bush near Flagstaff, said a spokesperson for the provincial department of health on Monday. Also, one boy died after falling ill at another circumcision school in the area.
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/ 25 November 2005
”If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do,” said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.