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/ 15 September 2006

Spoof letters baffle and befuddle leaders

No one is safe from the ever curious Mr Morello who needs British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Arsenal Football Club and The School of Taxidermy to explain to him the mysteries of British life. Armed with an endless list of quandaries to resolve, the bewildered Italian immigrant living in a London suburb badgers The Chief Druid, The Guild of Professional English Butlers and The Old English Goat Society.

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/ 15 September 2006

Els, Woods fall at first hurdle

Tiger Woods was sensationally knocked out of the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth on Thursday by fellow American Shaun Micheel 4 and 3. It brought to an end Woods’s run of five tournament wins, which encompassed two Majors, but Woods was a shadow of the player who has dominated golf recently, not least on the greens where he barely holed a putt.

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/ 15 September 2006

Mbeki arrives in Havana for NAM summit

President Thabo Mbeki and Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma arrived in Cuba late on Thursday night for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit meeting of heads of state and government. Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said the president’s visit to Cuba was ”to effectively position NAM to play a meaningful role in global affairs”.

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/ 15 September 2006

Jilted girlfriend seeks out hit man

A jilted girlfriend tried to hire a hit man to kill her boyfriend’s new love in Arizona after spotting her rival’s picture on his <i>MySpace</i> social networking web page, police said on Thursday. Heather Kane (22) was arrested after giving a $400 down payment to an undercover officer posing as a contract killer, according to Detective Jerry Gissel of the Mesa Police Department.

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/ 15 September 2006

Lower commodity prices knock JSE

The JSE was weaker in noon trade on Friday, after lower commodity prices knocked heavyweight resources stocks. Volumes were extremely light, however, ahead of the release of United States consumer price index data. By 12.08pm the all-share index slipped 0,51%. Industrials dipped 0,07%, financials were flat (+0,01%) and the banks index eased 0,2%.

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/ 15 September 2006

Killer TB: Government was warned

”We were very excited when the antiretroviral [ARV] drugs came at last,”’ said Tony Moll, chief medical officer at the Church of Scotland hospital near Tugela Ferry, KwaZulu-Natal. ”We witnessed dramatic turnarounds in the health of patients with HIV. Then we had a small group who responded magnificently to the ARVs — their immune systems were bouncing back — while they kept on getting sicker.”

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/ 15 September 2006

Econet to launch 3G in Zimbabwe

Econet Wireless — Zimbabwe’s largest mobile network operator — will early next year introduce 3G for the first time in that country, initially targeting the capital city Harare, the company said in a statement on Friday. Zimbabwe will join South Africa and Mauritius as the only African countries to roll-out 3G services.