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/ 13 December 2005
Quinton Fortune’s Manchester United future could be in doubt after the South Africa international was referred to a specialist in a bid to discover why a knee injury is not healing. Fortune (28) has not played since he came on as a substitute for John O’Shea in the FA Cup final defeat by Arsenal at the end of last season.
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/ 13 December 2005
The South African government says an investment climate survey — a joint Department of Trade and Industry and World Bank initiative — has provided encouraging information as well as challenges as the country prepares to embark on accelerated growth.
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/ 13 December 2005
A call for members of the public not to panic over fuel shortages was made by Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks in the National Assembly on Tuesday morning. In Gauteng, the problem has been exacerbated by panic buying among motorists who do not even need to fill up with fuel, she said.
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/ 13 December 2005
South Africa is set to ban the age-old Zulu custom of virginity testing on young girls, even though traditionalists have vowed to disregard the new measure. The tradition, which involves the inspection of girls’ genitalia, has drawn an outcry from human rights advocates who say it is an invasion of privacy and degrading towards women.
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/ 13 December 2005
Indian filmmaker and writer Ramanand Sagar, whose television series portraying Hindu gods battling demons captivated tens of millions and drew crowds of people who couldn’t afford TVs around shop windows on Sunday nights, has died, his family said. He was 87.
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/ 13 December 2005
Ethiopia on Tuesday accused arch-rival Eritrea of deliberately ratcheting up tension along their border and said it will take deterrent measures to dissuade Asmara from starting a new conflict. ”The Eritrean government is making efforts to worsen the situation around the border,” Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told lawmakers.
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/ 13 December 2005
High-flying internet company Google and 11 other companies were added on Monday to the Nasdaq 100, the Nasdaq Stock Market’s index of the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on the market. The Nasdaq 100 is a widely used benchmark for a variety of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
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/ 13 December 2005
A pullback in precious-metals prices knocked the JSE on Tuesday, leaving the overall index in the red in late-morning trade. Banks bucked the weaker trend as some of the money from resources found its way into the sector. By 11.46am, the all-share index shed 0,7%.
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/ 13 December 2005
United States authorities on Tuesday executed Stanley ”Tookie” Williams, a convicted killer who was at the centre of one of biggest anti-death-penalty campaigns in the US in decades, a spokesperson for San Quentin prison said. Williams, executed by lethal injection, was declared dead at 12.35am local time.
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/ 13 December 2005
With hat in hand on the eve of his departure, a German prosecutor on Monday delivered more evidence of Syria’s role in slaying a Lebanese political figure and charged that some documentation had been burned and destroyed in Syria. Detlev Mehlis charges that Syria still has not cooperated fully with the United Nations investigation.