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<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust will be hosting its first official fund-raising event on Friday in Durban to raise money for the former South African deputy president’s legal costs. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reported on Friday last week that the trust was facing a financial crisis and that it was "far behind" in achieving its target.
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/ 9 November 2005
British, French and German soldiers down their rifles and celebrate Christmas between their trenches in a moving French film due for release on Wednesday, two days before the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice. Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) covers a 24-hour festive truce made by three lieutenants who meet in no-man’s-land.
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/ 9 November 2005
England’s Justin Rose and Australian Geoff Ogilvy each took one-up victories over United States foes in Arizona on Tuesday, leading the Internationals past the Americans 2,5-1,5 at the Tommy Bahama Challenge. Rose and Ogilvy each birdied the 18th hole to bring the global ”young guns” victory in the second edition of the event.
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/ 9 November 2005
The withdrawal affliction that hampers Bafana Bafana with regular monotony when it comes to Benni McCarthy struck again on Tuesday when the talented but enigmatic striker was withdrawn from the squad to play Senegal in the Nelson Mandela Cup game at the Port Elizabeth Rugby Stadium on Saturday.
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/ 9 November 2005
The Premier Soccer League never ceases to surprise — and on Tuesday the national professional soccer body took the decision to stage the forthcoming Coca-Cola Cup semifinal between Ajax Cape Town and Supersport United at unfamiliar soccer territory in Kimberley.
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/ 9 November 2005
The African National Congress in the Western Cape has disciplined a member who fired shots in the air at a chaotic branch meeting in September, and accepted his protestations of loyalty to the provincial leadership. A disciplinary committee has sentenced Douglas Ndawonde to expulsion, but suspended the punishment for one year.
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After opening higher, the JSE surrendered its gains and had dipped into the red by noon on Wednesday, dragged down by weaker world markets and a slightly stronger rand. There was also little news to draw buyers into the market and volumes were light. By noon, the all-share index was down a marginal 0,04%.
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The biggest single advance in automotive engineering over the last couple of decades has been in the role that electronic technology plays in managing various functions. It started when electronic ignition systems replaced points and condensers, and simple engine management systems evolved into complex computers that do everything from fine-tuning fuel-injection systems to altering the length of inlet tracts.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will reject any plea bargain offered by the state in his corruption trial, his lawyer, Michael Hulley, said on Wednesday. Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Scorpions special investigating unit had signalled its preparedness to entertain a plea bargain with Zuma.
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The United States and other nations have frozen more than $150-million of "terrorist assets" in the global anti-terrorism fight, a senior US official said on Wednesday. "Key financiers have been detained, over $150-million of terrorist assets have been frozen and millions more blocked in transit or seized at borders," said US State Department counterrorism co-ordinator Henry Crumpton.