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/ 14 October 2005
The government was confident of meeting its objective to raise economic growth levels, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. ”There is a sense of confidence in government about the target we are setting ourselves with regards to… raising growth, that they are realistic,” he told foreign diplomats.
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/ 14 October 2005
The most pointlessly complex Currie Cup system of all time has finally produced exactly the same semifinal match-ups as last year. The main difference is that a year ago, when eight teams contested the Currie Cup, it was a reversion to strength against strength and, what with the Springboks winning the Tri-Nations and all, it was considered something of a vintage season.
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/ 14 October 2005
Cricketers are neither linguists nor mathematicians, so perhaps one could forgive the Australians their blabbermouthed foolishness of the past week. First it was Matthew Hayden, scrambling to the summit of sports jargon idiocy by declaring himself to be ”a billion percent” behind Ricky Ponting, perhaps in the hope that some of those tens of millions of percents would rub off on the selectors when they cast their eyes over Hayden’s wretched form this year.
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/ 14 October 2005
The United States government is spending more than -million a day to house people affected by Hurricane Katrina in hotels. The hotel bill has grown as officials struggle to meet a deadline imposed by US President George Bush to move all evacuees out of emergency shelters by the middle of October.
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/ 14 October 2005
Cricket technology intervened to give the World XI two crucial Australian wickets on a history-making opening day of the Super Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. Michael Clarke became the first batsman given out in Test cricket by the video umpire Darrell Hair midway through the afternoon session to a bat-pad catch off spinner Daniel Vettori for 39.
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/ 14 October 2005
Fashion designer Nkhensani Nkosi is first up in the <i>Stars at Play</i> compilation series, which aims to provide an audio glimpse into what public figures listen to in the privacy of their lounges, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 14 October 2005
John Singleton’s new family drama, <i>Four Brothers</i>, questions whether blood is thicker than water, writes Renaye D Menassey.
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/ 14 October 2005
Saddam Hussein’s family have chosen one of Britain’s best-known barristers to defend the former Iraqi dictator at his trial for mass murder which is due to start in Baghdad next week. Anthony Scrivener QC, a former chairperson of the Bar Council, has been asked to go to Iraq to head the defence in what will be one of the most closely watched trials of recent times.
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/ 14 October 2005
Russian security forces killed a group of eight armed rebels and freed five hostages after storming a police station in the southern city of Nalchik early on Friday where the gunmen were holed up following a deadly rampage, a local official said, according to the Interfax news agency.
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/ 14 October 2005
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell has been caught trespassing in Harare, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Friday. It said security forces found him entering a restricted security zone in the National Botanical Gardens in Harare.