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/ 26 January 2007
Members of the Football League’s board have held meetings with the Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Scudamore, to seek a fairer distribution of the Premiership’s booming TV money which, following the £625-million secured last week for overseas rights, will total £2,7-billion over three years from next season.
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/ 26 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s striking doctors on Thursday threatened to quit and leave the country en masse if the government did not urgently move to end a six-week strike that has paralysed state hospitals. Hospital Doctors Association president Kudakwashe Nyamutukwa said that locally trained doctors were in demand in neighbouring countries.
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/ 26 January 2007
Norway stepped up its battle with Apple Computer’s iTunes on Thursday when its consumer ombudsman said the software giant must open access to its music download system by October 1 or face legal action. Last June, Norway’s powerful ombudsman said iTunes violated Norwegian law by forcing consumers to play their downloaded music on Apple’s iPod music player.
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/ 26 January 2007
How do I know the new Hyundai Santa Fé is going to be a success? Simple. When I arrived at a recent family gathering in the Santa Fé, I was asked by a group of male relatives: "Is this the new Lexus SUV?" Before I could answer, one of the guys said: "No, it’s the new Audi SUV."
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/ 26 January 2007
Last week came the announcement that the United States government had asked the United Nations Security Council to list two South African citizens, Farhad Ahmed Dockrat and Junaid Ismail Dockrat, on its ”terrorist” watch list. Both were accused of having links with al-Qaeda, fundraising for its activities and recruiting South Africans as its operatives.
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/ 26 January 2007
A niece and a nephew of mine started school this year. The inevitable conversations about uniforms and school bags, alongside blanket coverage of schools’ opening day, drove home several unpleasant realities about our education system. I am glad that Warona and Sinesipo wake up to schools that are better resourced than the one I first enrolled in at the beginning of 1978, writes Pumla Dineo Gqola.
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/ 26 January 2007
The safety of Russia’s vast nuclear arsenal was called into question on Thursday after Georgia said it had arrested a man trying to sell weapons-grade uranium hidden under his jacket. Officials in Tiblisi said Oleg Khintsagov had been captured after smuggling the uranium into the country.
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/ 26 January 2007
"Are You Experienced?" asked Jimi Hendrix on his 1967 breakthrough album. Four decades on, were he still alive, the man who transformed rock and roll would most likely ask: "Are you thirsty?" Thirty six years after his death, the title of Jimi Hendrix’s first album is being used for a soft drink.
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/ 26 January 2007
More than 2Â 000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers at the Modikwa Platinum mine in Limpopo started striking at 6am on Friday to demand an end to racism at the mine. ”Working conditions for whites here are made to be much better than their black counterparts,” said spokesperson Onis Serothwane.
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/ 26 January 2007
South Africa’s Tongaat-Hulett group intends investing another R1,3-billion in sugar production in Mozambique, said Mozambican news agency AIM on Thursday. Tongaat-Hulett is a shareholder in two Mozambican sugar companies, at Xinavane in Maputo province and Mafambisse in Sofala.