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/ 30 January 2006
All licensed and registered cyclists are welcome to ride in the Nashua Tshwane Capital Classic on Sunday without fear of facing a ban or being fined. This assurance was given on Monday by Hannes le Roux, chairperson of Gauteng North Cycling. Le Roux gave this assurance after a ”misunderstanding” about the event.
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/ 30 January 2006
The <a target="_blank" class=’standardtext’ href="http://www.go-opensource.com/">Go Open Source</a> campaign on Monday announced a R3-million investment into skills aimed at creating a formal channel for Linux and open-source software in South Africa.
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/ 30 January 2006
Repairs at the Koeberg nuclear power station could take — in "a worst-case scenario" — nine months to carry out, says Eskom’s acting chief executive, Jacob Maroga. Cape Town has been hit by four outages in the past three months and is dependent on Koeberg, especially during peak demand times.
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/ 30 January 2006
Laetitia Rispel, former head of the Gauteng health department, has been appointed as the head of the Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) HIV/Aids research programme. She succeeds Olive Shisana, who took over as president and CEO of the HSRC in August 2005.
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/ 30 January 2006
The 200-plus demonstrators from the student group Concerned Muslims who had gathered in light drizzle at one of central Jakarta’s main roundabouts had a simple message for passing motorists. ”Reject Playboy! Reject Playboy!” they shouted. ”Don’t publish that filth here. Keep the Indonesian nation clean.”
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/ 30 January 2006
Crude oil prices fell on Monday ahead of a closely watched Opec meeting, despite persistent supply fears tied to Iran’s diplomatic stand-off with the West over its nuclear ambitions and militant attacks in Nigeria. Light, sweet crude for March delivery fell 14 cents to ,62 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe.
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/ 30 January 2006
Within a few years, girls will be vaccinated against cancer. Not every cancer — at least, not yet. But the cervical cancer jab is well on its way. A couple of shots in the arm, perhaps, and young women may never have to think about it again. Simple coughs and colds can trigger everyÂthing from childhood leukaemia to cervical cancer.
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/ 30 January 2006
The African National Congress’s controversial parliamentary chief whip, Mbulelo Goniwe, has been accused of using a march over land restitution in the Eastern Cape as a weapon in his battle with local party activists in Cradock. This follows a statement by six ANC branches in Cradock, Goniwe’s hometown, demanding his expulsion from the party.
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/ 30 January 2006
About 3Â 000 members of the South African Police Service who could previously not read and write have completed literacy training. Ben Smit, managing director of Secudac, a private company which provided the training, said on Monday that the officers also acquired life skills during the six months Adult-Based Education and Training programme.
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/ 30 January 2006
The South Darfur police chief said on Sunday that 18 rebels had been killed and more than 50 wounded while two government troops died and nine others were wounded in a recent attack by rebels on Shiairyah town in South Darfur state. There was no independent confirmation of the statement by police chief, Major General Abdin al-Tahir, who was quoted by the state-run Sudanese Media Centre.