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/ 19 September 2005
A senior state prosecutor told the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Monday that the state is working non-stop in the murder investigation of senior Free State official Noby Ngombane. Ngombane, a senior official in Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff’s office, was murdered at his Hillsboro home on March 22.
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/ 19 September 2005
Lesotho and South Africa will sign an agreement for the feasibility study of the second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project at the Mohale Dam this week. The feasibility study of the second phase is expected to start in October 2005 and will take two years.
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/ 19 September 2005
A jobless, homesick man from Taiwan gouged out his own eyes, surrounded by families celebrating the mid-autumn festival, a newspaper said on Monday. Chiu Hsin-chih (40) lives in Taoyuan County with his mother, wife and two toddler-age children but has been out of work for a long time, the Apple Daily reported.
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/ 19 September 2005
The South African Football Association (Safa) are in debt to the tune of R78-million said a report in Johannesburg’s Sunday Sun newspaper over the weekend. The figure, it is alleged, reflects the situation after the 2004/5 financial year. Neither Danny Jordaan, who was CEO of Safa during this period, nor current Safa CEO Raymond Hack were immediately available for comment on Sunday.
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/ 19 September 2005
A billion dollars has been plundered from the coffers of Iraq’s defence ministry, seriously affecting the government’s ability to combat the insurgency, London’s Independent newspaper reported on Monday, citing the Iraqi finance minister.
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/ 19 September 2005
North Korea promised on Monday to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for pledges of aid and security, the first major breakthrough in more than two years of deadlock over the high-stakes crisis. The unexpected agreement also says the United States will respect the North’s sovereignty and will not attack.
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/ 19 September 2005
Pre-trial detention conditions in South Africa do not meet international guarantees, a United Nations working group reported on Monday. ”Harsh” prison sentences, police brutality and the unjust treatment of asylum seekers were also raised as issues of concern following a two-week study by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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/ 19 September 2005
Nigerian Islamic judges have ordered that a teenager from Niger have his hand cut off after he confessed to stealing a motorbike, court officials said on Monday. This is thought to be the first time that a foreign national has been sentenced to amputation since northern Nigeria began to reintroduce sharia in 1999.
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/ 19 September 2005
Since gaining independence in 1963, Kenya has held four elections. But, perhaps the most decisive ballot of all has been cast by citizens who voted with their feet — leaving Kenya for countries that seemed more promising. Concerns about corruption, economic decline and insecurity have prompted an exodus of professionals.
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/ 19 September 2005
United States weather monitors issued a hurricane watch for Florida’s western islands on Sunday as Tropical Storm Rita brewed in the western Atlantic. ”Rita is getting much better organised and strengthening as it nears the south-eastern Bahamas,” the National Hurricane Centre said on Sunday evening.