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/ 10 October 2005
For some reason or the other, I found myself down at the Aardklop Festival last weekend. Aardklop is a celebration of serious Afrikanerness that takes over the centre of the seemingly enlightened city of Potchefstroom at this time each year. Why the festival is there, and what aard it is busy klopping, is anyone’s guess.
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/ 10 October 2005
Fat-cat salaries are crowding out socio-economic delivery in many of South Africa’s municipalities, official figures show. The salaries of municipal councillors and officials outstrip spending on services by nearly R10Â -billion — 10% of the total municipal budget. The figures must be seen against the backdrop of the municipal protests that have exploded across South Africa in the past six months.
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/ 10 October 2005
The official death toll from massive floods ravaging Central America and Mexico has surged to 770 as hundreds more were feared dead in Guatemala on Monday, following last week’s mudslide that swallowed two small towns in the west of the country. Only 71 bodies have been recovered in the mudslide-hit area so far.
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/ 10 October 2005
Aircraft rushed in supplies from abroad and Washington pledged -million in aid on Monday as hungry families displaced in Pakistan’s worst earthquake huddled in tents and shopkeepers clashed with looters. Death-toll estimates ranged from 20 000 to 40 000.
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/ 10 October 2005
Health officials are monitoring 151 people for symptoms of the deadly Congo fever virus, which claimed the life of an unnamed farm labourer at Groote Schuur hospital on Monday. Confident the disease will not spread, officials on Monday discharged seven people, including the dead man’s wife and son, from the Riversdale hospital.
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/ 10 October 2005
Contrasting arguments on the future of the Scorpions were submitted by a police union and the Democratic Alliance at the Khampepe commission in Pretoria on Monday. The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union told the commission: ”The need for the Scorpions no longer exists.”
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/ 10 October 2005
The leading sponsors of South African rugby announced on Monday the appointment of former cricket supremo Dr Ali Bacher to represent their joint interests on the board of SA Rugby. The president of SA Rugby, Brian van Rooyen, welcomed Bacher.
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/ 10 October 2005
Workers marching for an end to unemployment and job losses warned the ruling African National Congress on Monday to ignore them at its peril. ”We cannot simply be election fodder,” Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha told protesters who converged at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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/ 10 October 2005
A court in Zimbabwe on Monday provisionally barred the eviction of about 400 squatters from a suburb in the capital, Harare, a human rights lawyer said. Zvikomborero Chadambuka, of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, said the High Court in Harare ordered that his clients should not be evicted from Mbare suburb.