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/ 27 September 2005
Trade unions on Tuesday urged southern African governments to protect the clothing, textile and footwear industries threatened by a flood of cheap Chinese imports. The trade unions met recently in Cape Town to reflect on the state of the clothing, textile and footwear industry in southern Africa.
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/ 27 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank on Tuesday said its surprise -million loan payback to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) came from ”free funds” and export earnings. Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono said that Zimbabwe had not rejected loan assistance from South Africa, part of which would be used to pay back the IMF loan.
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/ 27 September 2005
Fires that have killed two people and ravaged large areas of land have largely been contained, but now the provinces are starting to count the costs. Crews from the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Free State, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo have been fighting fires since September 23.
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/ 27 September 2005
Religion and science clashed in a drab Pennsylvania courtroom on Monday over a test case that could decide how evolution is taught in America’s state schools. The civil trial, triggered last year by a classroom battle, marks the beginning of the first major legal assault on evolution science in 18 years.
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/ 27 September 2005
Almost 50 people have been killed in a village in eastern Chad during an attack by an armed group from neighbouring Sudan and subsequent clashes with Chadian forces, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. The attack took place in the eastern Wadai region on Monday morning, Hurmaji Musa Dumgor said in a statement.
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/ 27 September 2005
A current cholera epidemic spreading across West Africa is more serious than other recent outbreaks because of the fast spread of the disease in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. ”Is it worse than in previous years? Yes, because of the big outbreaks it is worse,” said WHO’s cholera chief Claire-Lise Chaignat.
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/ 27 September 2005
After admitting having had sex with a 15-year-old girl he is accused of raping, soccer star Benedict Vilakazi told her uncle he was ”sorry” and he ”knew it was wrong”, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday. The girl’s uncle said he had never discussed his niece’s age with Vilakazi until the incident had happened.
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/ 27 September 2005
Jacques Kallis and Makhaya Ntini were both honoured for a record-equalling fourth time at the launch of the 2005 Mutual & Federal South African Cricket Annual in Gauteng on Monday. Kallis and Ntini were among the five Mutual & Federal annual cricketers of the year named at the function.
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/ 27 September 2005
A massive brain drain is depriving Zimbabwe of health professionals, teachers, accountants, scientists and engineers, according to a government report quoted in a newspaper on Tuesday. Half a million Zimbabweans, mainly professionals in the health and education sector, have migrated, according to the study by the Scientific and Industrial Research Centre.
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/ 27 September 2005
More than one million children, mostly from poor homes, are to be affected by cuts in the Eastern Cape’s school-feeding scheme, the Herald Online reported on Tuesday. The programme will be scaled down from five to three days a week because the education department does not have money to run the scheme every day.