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Ethiopian officials announced on Tuesday that tests are under way at a southern poultry farm after thousands of chickens died of a ”bird-flu-like” disease. The fear is that the disease will turn out to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus that has killed more than 90 people, mostly in Asia, since 2003.
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Heavy rains in Thabazimbi, Limpopo, have caused several houses and shops in the town to be flooded, resulting in thousands of rands in damages, a municipal spokesperson said on Tuesday. Segale Pilane said a municipal task team was on its way to the affected areas to assess the extent of the damage.
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Free State rugby boss Harold Verster remains mum on reports that ousted South African Rugby Union president Brian van Rooyen had allegedly tried to bribe him, media reports said on Tuesday. Van Rooyen reportedly offered Verster R3-million and a Test match if his union switched allegiance to Van Rooyen before the presidential election.
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/ 28 February 2006
The European Union announced on Monday that it will pay €138,6-million in emergency aid to the Palestinian Authority, which is on the verge of financial collapse. Brussels insisted that only a small part of the money (€17,4-million) will go directly to the caretaker Palestinian government.
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China declared its first victory in a centuries-old war against the desert on Monday after a campaign to plant 12-billion trees in five years finally made a small green dent in an ocean of sand dunes and dustbowls. Every March, government leaders join three million people who take up shovels on tree-planting day.
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The head of the world’s nuclear watchdog declared on Monday night that he cannot give Iran’s nuclear programme a clean bill of health, blaming Tehran for frustrating almost three years of inspections and detective work by experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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The rural community of Ndwedwe, north of Durban, has no electricity, running water and tarred roads, says an area headman. The community, which mainly lives in mud rondavels, often enquires about the slow pace of delivery, but they are told there is no money. ”Tell me one reason why I should vote,” says the headman.
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Feeling abandoned by the party they helped bring into power and angered by conditions in townships, the Northern Cape’s Independent Party is ”praying” for the African National Congress to lose Wednesday’s local government election. ”I pray that the ANC will lose,” one of the party’s two candidates said on Monday.
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/ 28 February 2006
There will again be rolling blackouts in the Western Cape on Tuesday, Eskom announced in a news release. This was necessitated by multiple line faults that occurred at 2.13am that interrupted power to the province. Metrorail appealed to commuters to find alternative forms of transport as power outages disrupted train services.
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The South African Revenue Service has submitted a claim of R183-million against the estate of slain tycoon Brett Kebble, media reports said on Tuesday. Kebble, who was gunned down in Johannesburg in September last year, left his entire estate — estimated by his executors to be worth about R40-million — to his wife.