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/ 19 September 2006
The death toll from a diarrhoea epidemic in Ethiopia has climbed to at least 182, with nearly 20Â 000 others infected since the outbreak erupted in June, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN humanitarian agency said the disease had spread to five Ethiopian regions that were ravaged by devastating floods.
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/ 19 September 2006
Congress of South African Trade Unions congress-goers wildly cheered the Treatment Action Campaign’s Zackie Achmat on Tuesday when he called for the removal from office of South African Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Achmat spoke shortly after Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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/ 19 September 2006
Michael Hussey has brushed off talk of wanting to succeed Ricky Ponting as Australian captain, saying he is happy just to be playing in the same side. Hussey took charge of his first game as skipper on Monday in the DLF Cup against the West Indies and led from the front, scoring a maiden one-day century only to see his side beaten by three wickets.
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/ 19 September 2006
Ian Woosnam gave a first hint of his Ryder Cup thinking on Tuesday morning at the K-Club when he sent out his six pairings for the first fourballs practice session. Woosnam teamed up veteran Colin Montgomerie with Englishman David Howell in his first group, allying the Scot’s huge experience in the competition with the Englishman’s fine recent form.
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/ 19 September 2006
A bitter struggle over who will succeed Thabo Mbeki as president has forced the governing African National Congress to confront dissent openly and defend its policies from attacks by its own rank and file. Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has escalated the succession battle by campaigning openly and vigorously to become the next president.
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/ 19 September 2006
Non-executive directors’ annual pay packages increased on average just over 34% in 2005 to R342 072 from R254 744 in 2004, a study published in the <i>Bargaining Monitor</i> distributed at the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) congress has established.
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/ 19 September 2006
The JSE was in positive territory in noon trade on Tuesday, lifted by higher commodity prices. A weaker rand also lent support. By 12.07pm, the all share and all share industrial indices added 0,4% and 0,31% respectively. Resources rose 0,64% and the gold mining index jumped 1,93%, but the platinum mining index surrendered 1,23%.
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/ 19 September 2006
Marion Jones, who was recently cleared of using banned blood-booster EPO, will never be able to repair her image and should retire from athletics, track legend Michael Johnson said on Tuesday. In a column for the London-based Daily Telegraph, Johnson said Jones would be forever blighted by ”a plethora of circumstantial evidence” surrounding alleged doping.
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/ 19 September 2006
Wallaby captain George Gregan announced on Tuesday that he would opt out of Australia’s four-Test tour of Europe in November to concentrate on preparing for next year’s World Cup. Gregan, the world’s most-capped international player with 127 Tests, said his decision to miss the tour was based purely on the opportunity to get ready physically for the World Cup.
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/ 19 September 2006
Hungary’s opposition parties called on Tuesday on Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to quit after thousands of people took to the streets in a night of anti-government riots in which 150 people were injured. The riots, the worst in Hungary since the end of communism, were triggered by the leak of a tape on Sunday in which Gyurcsany said he and his Socialist party had lied for four years about Hungary’s parlous budget.