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/ 17 January 2006
Zimbabwean police have launched a manhunt for High Court Judge Benjamin Paradza who was convicted of corruption last week, that country’s Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. Its website said indications are that the fugitive judge skipped the country to London via South Africa soon after he was convicted last week.
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/ 17 January 2006
South Africa suffered an 8-0 drubbing at the hands of the England men’s hockey team at the Tshwane University of Technology on Monday night. The South African side just couldn’t make an impact on the rampant English, who obliterated any attempt at a South African line of defence.
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/ 17 January 2006
Nominal house growth was 21,9% in 2005, but the rate of growth should slow down to between 10% and 12% in 2006, mainly driven by the combined effect of the affordability of housing and interest rates remaining low over the next 12 months, according to banking group Absa.
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/ 17 January 2006
Feisty Australian pace-bowler Glenn McGrath believes the time has come for his colleagues to start behaving themselves following a spate of citings for bad behaviour on the field. ”I think at the end of the day it is up to the captain [to talk to umpires] and it should be left that way,” McGrath told a Sydney radio station on Tuesday.
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/ 17 January 2006
South Africa won the toss and elected to bowl first in their tri-series one-day cricket match against Sri Lanka at the Brisbane Cricket Ground on Tuesday. The South Africans, already hit by injuries, suffered a further blow when all-rounder Jacques Kallis was ruled out of the match with an elbow injury.
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/ 17 January 2006
Sewage swept into the Vaal River by recent rains have all but destroyed the river’s ecosystem, media reports said on Tuesday. The Eco-Care Trust, an environmental organisation committed to the conservation of fish and rivers, said tonnes of dead fish have been floating downriver since the weekend.
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/ 17 January 2006
The state has attached the property of a fugitive German businessman suspected of sexually assaulting young girls in the Helderberg district, media reports said on Tuesday. Werner Braun’s luxury home in Somerset West and a BMW X5 were seized in terms of legislation on the prevention of organised crime.
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/ 17 January 2006
Former United States vice-president Al Gore launched a withering attack on the White House on Monday for authorising wiretaps without court oversight, and accused President George Bush of repeatedly breaking the law. The speech makes Gore the most prominent political figure in the US to weigh in on the wiretapping scandal.
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/ 17 January 2006
After years of singular devotion to their companies, millions of Japanese workers could soon be given a way out of the prison cells that pass for their workplaces. The very same workaholic ethic credited with dragging Japan out of its post-war funk now has the country flirting with social and economic meltdown.
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/ 17 January 2006
Gay cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain and Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line grabbed top honours on Monday at the Golden Globe awards, giving both a major boost in the coming Oscar race. South African film Tsotsi and South African actress Charlize Theron went home empty-handed, though.