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/ 11 November 2005
The serving and former MPs facing the music in Travelgate, the parliamentary travel-scam case, on Friday received a provisional indictment that details fraud and alternative theft charges totalling about R24-million. At the same time, a Cape Town magistrate turned up the heat on the Scorpions to finalise their preparation for the case.
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/ 11 November 2005
Communist heavy-hitter Phillip Dexter says he has received repeated death threats after spearheading corruption investigations into senior Mpumalanga provincial politicians as well as trade union and business figures. The investigations launched by Dexter have touched on business interests of top former Mpumalanga bureaucrats and politicians.
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/ 11 November 2005
Spot platinum on Friday touched a fresh 25-year high of $961,50 a troy ounce on continued fund buying of the metal as well as strength in the rest of the commodity complex, traders said. At 1.30pm, platinum was quoted at $959/oz, down $1/oz from its previous close.
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/ 11 November 2005
The Department of Labour has told security guards who marched to its offices in Pretoria on Friday that it will consider their demands on improved working conditions and salary adjustments. The department is preparing to investigate demands made by the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union.
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/ 11 November 2005
Lord Lichfield, a cousin of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and an accomplished professional photographer who took pictures at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, died early on Friday, a spokesperson for his office said. Lichfield had been staying with friends near Oxford when he suffered a stroke on Wednesday.
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/ 11 November 2005
Hundreds of singing protesters from Khutsong and other areas around Carletonville gathered at the township’s stadium on Friday morning to march to the local police station. Their mission was to present a memorandum on the latest events related to protests over provincial demarcation.
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/ 11 November 2005
It’s no secret that cows and pigs stink. The problem is figuring out how bad they stink — and in which direction the smell will spread beyond the pens and yards where the livestock live. Now a University of Nebraska biological-engineering scientist is trying to better predict where the stench from livestock waste will waft.
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/ 11 November 2005
United Nations chief Kofi Annan was headed to Amman on Friday as Jordanians mourned victims of deadly attacks on three luxury hotels claimed by al-Qaeda, which jolted one of Washington’s staunchest Middle East allies. The death toll rose to 57 after a renowned film director died of injuries sustained in one of the blasts.
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/ 11 November 2005
Forensic experts have recovered the remains of 227 victims of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst mass killing since World War II, an official said on Friday. In 1995, Serb troops overran the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica and killed as many as 8 000 Muslim men and boys.
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/ 11 November 2005
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was ”fine” on Friday morning after being rushed to a Cape Town hospital due to a medical emergency, his office said. ”He had a good night’s sleep, and he is doing fine,” ministerial spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi said from Pretoria.