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/ 12 October 2005
The African National Congress was dismayed by an incident in Durban on Tuesday in which supporters of axed deputy president Jacob Zuma burned T-shirts bearing the face of President Thabo Mbeki. Zuma was greeted by hundreds of supporters outside the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
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/ 12 October 2005
A giant pumpkin weighing more than half a tonne has snatched top place in a world championship competition of giant vegetables held in California, organisers said on Tuesday. A retired firefighter won Monday’s World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off for the second year running with his humongous 557,47kg entry.
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/ 12 October 2005
Ever mindful of its image, British luxury goods firm Burberry has threatened legal action against a company making garments in its trademark check pattern — for ferrets. Burberry’s lawyers have sent letters to Ferret World, the country’s only outlet for clothes made especially for the rodents, a popular pet.
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/ 12 October 2005
Yahoo! said on Wednesday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older. The internet portal also will pre-screen the names of all user-created chat rooms if and when it restores the ability to create them.
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/ 12 October 2005
The theft of several University of South Africa (Unisa) exam papers from the University of Namibia (Unam) will affect about 13Â 500 Unisa students worldwide, officials from Unisa said on Wednesday. The Namibian reported that the police in Namibia are probing the theft of several Unisa exam papers from Unam.
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/ 12 October 2005
Hackers can bring a cellular network to a standstill by flooding it with SMSs equivalent to spam, say computer researchers in the United States. However, a local mobile messaging expert told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> that such messages would only congest the network for a "couple of seconds".
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/ 12 October 2005
Relief teams raced food and supplies into earthquake-hit areas of northern Pakistan on Wednesday as desperate survivors readied for a fifth straight night of cold and hunger. A child, a mother-of-three and an elderly man came out of different areas of devastated Pakistani-held Kashmir alive after being buried by the quake.
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/ 12 October 2005
Anastasia Aspeling, mother of 10-year-old Liam who was found on Wednesday after his kidnapping in Ennerdale south of Johannesburg on Tuesday, said she is not someone who seeks revenge. ”I just want my son back. The law can deal with the people who took him [if they are arrested] as it sees fit,” she said.
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has promised to reveal the reasons for his implication in corruption charges after his court battle that starts next year, but his remarks could test the tempers of African National Congress seniors who have ordered leaders to put up a united front.
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/ 12 October 2005
Iraq’s top leaders formally announced on Wednesday a last-ditch political deal aimed at securing the adoption of a post-Saddam Hussein Constitution in a national referendum just three days away. Despite the political accord, violence continued on the ground.