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/ 19 October 2005
Thierry Henry insists his record-breaking double strike that helped Arsenal to a 2-0 Champions League win at Sparta Prague has underlined his commitment to the Gunners. But the France star again side-stepped questions over his long-term future.
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/ 19 October 2005
Zambia on Wednesday began a three-month trial of traditional medicines on 25 HIV patients to test claims that they could cure the deadly virus. Health Minister Sylvia Masebo said the government would use World Health Organisation guidelines in the clinical trials of three traditional drugs made by traditional medical practitioners.
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/ 19 October 2005
Thousands of angry Somalis took to the streets of bullet-scarred Mogadishu on Wednesday to protest the arrest this week in Sweden of the capital’s police chief on suspicion of genocide. ”I don’t know who assigned Sweden to be the judge in the Somali conflict,” said Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, the minister of national security in Somalia’s deeply split transitional government.
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/ 19 October 2005
Where will they lead youth? As we approach our national Youth Day, the calibre of our youth leaders needs to be scrutinised. The breathtaking display of political imbecility by Fikile Mbalula of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Buti Manamela of the Young Communist League (YCL) in response to Judge Hillary Squires’s findings […]
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/ 19 October 2005
Research commissioned by Visa and First National Bank (FNB) indicates that South Africans use a debit or credit card to make more than 50% of their payments — a number that Galia Durbach, CEO of FNB Core Banking Solutions, believes should increase. She says the popularity of card-based transactional products is increasing.
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/ 19 October 2005
Almost one in three people bitten by deadly saltwater crocodiles in Australia had been drinking alcohol before the animal attacked, new research has found. An Australian review of unprovoked crocodile attacks on humans between 1971 and 2004 found that 29% of the 62 attacks had involved some alcohol consumption by the victim.
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/ 19 October 2005
Zimbabwe’s police chief says the authorities are ”dangerously underfunding” the police force, which does not have enough money to pay decent wages or buy new uniforms. Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri told a parliamentary committee in Harare on Tuesday that as a result morale in the police force was low and law enforcers are tempted to take bribes, the private Daily Mirror reported.
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/ 19 October 2005
South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Pravin Gordhan confirmed on Wednesday that there is "money due" in back taxes from the estate of the late Brett Kebble, but did not put a figure to the amount. <i>Business Day</i> reported recently that Kebble was believed to have died owing up to R100-million in tax to Sars.
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/ 19 October 2005
A defiant Saddam Hussein, proclaiming he was still ”president” of Iraq, on Wednesday refused to give even his name as he appeared in court on the first day of a trial being watched across the globe. He delivered a widely predicted but feisty tirade against the judge and the legitimacy of the court.
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/ 19 October 2005
Education quality-assurance body Umalusi on Wednesday said it has instructed all matric-examination assessment bodies not to use teachers found guilty of examination irregularities to administer matric exams. A total of 61 teachers were implicated in the incident last year.