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A 46-year-old Swiss lawyer was arrested at a top Sandton hotel on Sunday for sexually exploiting young boys as a ”sex tourist”, Gauteng police said. Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said the high-profile corporate lawyer was caught ”in the act” while having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old Alexandra boy.
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/ 10 October 2005
Drought, depressed commodity prices and a strong rand value have taken their toll on commercial and emerging farmers in South Africa, the Land Bank said on Sunday. In the bank’s 2004/05 report published this week, chairperson Jethro Mbau said South Africa’s agricultural sector is going through ”difficult times”.
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/ 10 October 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Sunday urged its members to vote in great numbers in the coming municipal elections to increase the party’s councillors as well as municipalities to govern. ”The strength of the IFP is in its members,” Zanele Magwaza, the IFP’s national chairperson, told crowds at an IFP rally in Soweto.
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/ 10 October 2005
The condition of a 46-year-old Southern Cape farm labourer hospitalised with Congo fever was deteriorating on Monday morning, said Western Cape health official Dr Keith Cloete. The unnamed man, a farm labourer from the Riversdale area, was admitted to Groote Schuur hospital on October 5.
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/ 10 October 2005
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Centre in the United States have struggled for more than a decade to issue accurate storm reports using broken equipment, an overbooked airplane fleet and tight budgets, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Key forecasting equipment used by the centre has broken down or been unavailable for nearly half of the 45 hurricanes that have struck land since 1992.
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/ 10 October 2005
The JSE was stronger just before midday on Monday, with buyers returning to the market after a three-day sell-off. Gold stocks were a feature after the metal reached its highest level since January 1988. By 11.57am, the all-share index added 0,86%.
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/ 10 October 2005
From the hordes of screaming fans to the flag-lined streets and non-stop parties that have transformed this southern port city, the South Korean movie industry is clearly in the mood to celebrate after a decade of phenomenal growth. The Pusan International Film Festival which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year has plenty of reasons to be cheerful: cinemas are packed, exports are soaring, and the world’s leading film gatherings are paying homage to South Korea.
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/ 10 October 2005
Fifty people arrested on Saturday following protests sparked off by the murder of a six-year-old girl in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg will appear in the Protea Magistrate’s court on Monday, according to the police. Gauteng spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said the 50 were all adults and included both men and women.
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/ 10 October 2005
The percentage of Zimbabweans aged between 15 and 49 infected with HIV has fallen from 24,6% to 20,1%, the country’s Herald Online reported on Monday. It said this made Zimbabwe the second country in Sub-Saharan Africa — after Uganda — to see its HIV infection rate start dropping.
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/ 10 October 2005
Virgin Blue airline recruited younger women in preference to older women in clear defiance of Australia’s anti-discrimination laws, a tribunal sitting in Brisbane found on Monday. The Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal was told that the listed discount carrier only employed one woman over 36 years old in the two years following its launch in 2000.