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/ 6 September 2005
Nigerian trade unions and activists said on Monday they will hold a series of rallies to protest against a steep rise in fuel prices, but will not call a nationwide strike as they had earlier threatened. Nigeria has ordered price hikes of up to 40% on fuels such as gas and diesel.
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/ 6 September 2005
A housing developer in Britain is offering a live pig as a pet to anyone who purchases a property from him, a spokesperson said on Monday, adding that the unusual offer has already attracted two buyers. The rare Gloucester Old Spot pig will be fully house-trained before it is delivered to its new family.
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/ 6 September 2005
Four South Africans are still missing after Hurricane Katrina struck the United States city of New Orleans last week, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The South African embassy in Washington is in constant touch with the US State Department about citizens in the affected area.
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/ 6 September 2005
South African Rugby vice-president Mike Stofile claimed on Monday the appointment of Andre Bester as spokesperson for rugby boss Brian van Rooyen had been irregular. ”Bester is being paid R300 000 a year and he was never properly appointed by SA Rugby. I lodged a complaint in December about Bester,” said Stofile.
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/ 6 September 2005
Police have dropped their case against two men suspected of breaking into the Sandton home of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, The Star newspaper reported on Monday. Charges were dropped for lack of evidence, but the two will be tried for other burglaries committed in Sandton.
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/ 6 September 2005
The top half of a pedestrian’s body was found in Slovoville on the West Rand a day after his legs were discovered 30km away on the Golden Highway offramp, Johannesburg metro police said on Monday. Spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the man had been run over on the offramp from the N1 on Saturday.
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/ 6 September 2005
An army court martial on Monday heard the first graphic account of how seven British soldiers allegedly carried out a ”brutal” and ”unprovoked” attack on a group of Iraqi civilians that led to the death of an unarmed teenager from severe head injuries. Two women who tried to intervene were ”hit and hurt”, the court martial heard.
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/ 6 September 2005
Nine German tourists, including six children, were killed on Monday when a helicopter dropped a concrete block on a cable-car line they were travelling on at a popular Austrian ski resort. The helicopter was ferrying building materials to a construction site atop a nearby mountain when the 750kg block tumbled free.
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/ 6 September 2005
A fire that began when an actor knocked over a candle on the set of a play ripped through a crowded theatre in the central Egyptian city of Beni Suef late on Monday, sparking a stampede of audience members and killing at least 29 people, survivors and officials said. The fire spread quickly across the set, which was made entirely of paper.
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/ 6 September 2005
Primeserv has recorded a turnaround for the year ended June, delivering an operating profit of R2,2-million compared with an operating loss of R3,5-million for the previous year. This resulted in a net profit for the year of R3-million compared with a loss of R8,54-million previously.