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/ 14 October 2005
Culling, it seemed, was the only viable option. The pesky brutes didn’t react well to sterilisation, and relocating them was out of the question. No, wholesale slaughter it would have to be. They simply used up too much land — one really couldn’t expect to roam expansive territories nowadays — and besides they were hugely destructive to the environment.
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/ 13 October 2005
Owners of bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) in Soweto are struggling to make a living because most tourists prefer to stay in their Sandton hotels. Mail & Guardian Online journalist Elvira van Noort spends a night at a Soweto B&B and investigates why tourists still steer clear of these hospitable establishments.
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/ 13 October 2005
The South African Communist Party does not believe that South Africa has two economies, Blade Ndzimande said at the Black Management Forum national conference in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”It is a single economy which, like all capitalist economies, has dualistic poles, the rich and the poor,” he said.
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/ 13 October 2005
Police have not echoed the willingness shown by the Scorpions to work together and create mechanisms to do so, it emerged on the final day of public hearings at the Khampepe Commission in Pretoria. ”We believe no number of committees can solve the problems until the institutional and constitutional problems have been solved,” said advocate Philip Jacobs for the South African Police Service.
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/ 13 October 2005
Murder convict William Nkuna on Thursday said politicians had influenced the judgement which found him guilty of missing Constable Frances Rasuge’s murder. Nkuna was pronounced guilty by Judge Ronald Hendricks in the GaRankuwa Circuit Court.
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/ 13 October 2005
Increasing numbers of Turks are rushing to pharmacies to buy the anti-viral drug Tamiflu following an outbreak of bird flu in northwestern Turkey, but there is a shortage on the market, Turkish pharmacists said on Thursday. Tamiflu, produced by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, is considered to be the most effective drug against bird flu.
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/ 13 October 2005
France’s Amelie Mauresmo crashed at the first hurdle in the ,3-million Kremlin Cup on Thursday, going out 6-1, 6-1 in the second round of the WTA event to Italy’s Francesca Schiavone. Mauresmo, the second seed, looked weary after her loss to American Lindsay Davenport in the final of the Grand Prix in Filderstadt, Germany on Sunday.
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/ 13 October 2005
The SA Reserve Bank kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday, but warned of risks posed by rising inflation. ”The deterioration in the inflation outlook cannot be ignored,” the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee said in a statement. ”The increased risk of possible pass-through leading to pronounced second-round effects on CPIX inflation must inform policy going forward.”
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/ 13 October 2005
Botswana’s Foreign Minister Mompati Merafhe on Thursday denied claims by Britain’s Survival International that it had launched an "ethnic cleansing" of San Bushmen from their ancestral land in the Kalahari. "Nothing could be further from the truth than those malicious allegations being marketed around by a one-issue organisation called Survival International," he said in Pretoria.