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/ 31 January 2006
Fresh interest by the Democratic Alliance (DA) in a report on the affairs of the Moqhaka municipality was ”unfortunate”, Free State premier Beatrice Marshoff said on Tuesday. DA leader Tony Leon has called on the premier to release the Majavu commission of inquiry’s findings on alleged corruption and maladministration in Moqhaka.
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/ 31 January 2006
Zimbabwe’s national cricket manager, Mohammed Meman, was fired on Tuesday after 15 years in the job. Meman immediately went to see his lawyer after being given three months’ notice — a move he described as ”an absolute disgrace”. Meman has been in charge of almost all Zimbabwe’s Test and one-day international teams since 1991.
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/ 31 January 2006
The IT Lynx Consortium, and not controversial oil dealer Sandi Majali, is suing Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya for R149-million, the company said on Tuesday. The consortium accused the Sunday Times on Tuesday of being ”inaccurate, misleading and mischievous”.
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/ 31 January 2006
The panel probing fuel shortages experienced late last year will soon call for public input into its inquiry, chairperson Marumo Moerane said on Tuesday. Moerane met the SA Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia) board of governors on Tuesday to outline the process that would be followed during the investigation.
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/ 31 January 2006
Denmark’s largest selling broadsheet newspaper on Monday night issued an apology to the ”honourable citizens of the Muslim world” after publishing a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that provoked protests across the Middle East.
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/ 31 January 2006
The disputed Palestinian film Paradise Now, the tale of two childhood friends who volunteer to be suicide bombers, was nominated on Tuesday for a best foreign language Oscar. The film, by director Hanny Abu-Assad, is competing against, among others, the South African crime drama Tsotsi, by Gavin Hood.
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/ 31 January 2006
Transnet workers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State ended their second day of strikes on Tuesday with unions claiming success. ”No matter which way you try and spin it, there’s no doubt the strike has been effective,” the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union’s (Satawu) Randall Howard said.
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/ 31 January 2006
Sri Lanka’s batting went from sizzle to fizzle as South Africa all but ended their hopes of playing in the limited-overs triangular series finals with a five-wicket win at the Waca ground on Tuesday. After an opening partnership of 94 off 97 balls between Sanath Jayasuriya and Jehan Mubarak, Sri Lanka lost their last eight wickets for 85 runs.
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/ 31 January 2006
Parliament’s axed chief financial officer, Harry Charlton, is to approach the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration for his reinstatement. The man who helped expose Parliament’s Travelgate scam is also planning to sue for defamation, saying ”that his good name, standing and reputation have been called into question”.
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/ 31 January 2006
A mysterious skin-worm sickness has hit several villages around Mafikeng in the North West, health officials said on Tuesday. ”People come to clinics complaining that their body is itching. Within three days small sores develop. A yellow spot then develops from each sore as it gets ripe. Once the sore is expressed a worm comes out of it,” said provincial health spokesperson Tebogo Lekgethwane.