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Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister and two-time president known for his brutal repression that led to the deaths of 500 000 people, died on Monday at a South African hospital, officials said. The Ugandan People’s Congress said Obote (80) died on Monday afternoon after being hospitalised for several weeks.
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/ 11 October 2005
The ex-wife of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Dirk du Toit is traumatised by strange things happening in her Bloemfontein flat, News24 reported on Tuesday. It said she has reported several ”scary” experiences to the police, such as having her eyebrows and hair shaved while she slept at night.
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/ 11 October 2005
Serious flaws have emerged in a September 2005 English additional language (higher grade) test paper in KwaZulu-Natal, the Witness website reported on Tuesday. It said the first section of the question paper contained at least 60 errors. The test was reportedly designed for grade-11 pupils across KwaZulu-Natal.
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The future of rugby in the Eastern Province hangs in the balance in an uphill battle against inherited administrative problems, the Herald Online reported on Tuesday. Eastern Province Rugby Union deputy president Aldy Meyer said players’ contracts for 2006 have not been renewed because of financial difficulties.
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Scientists have called for a more balanced approach in distributing the billions of dollars available for controlling tropical diseases. In a paper published on Tuesday, they said a focus on the big three tropical diseases — HIV, malaria and tuberculosis — has left millions of Africa’s poorest people without treatment for a range of illnesses.
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/ 11 October 2005
Thousands of soldiers and police were deployed in Iraq on Monday to prepare for a nationwide security clampdown in the run-up to Saturday’s referendum on a new Constitution. Extra patrols and checkpoints appeared in Baghdad, Mosul and Basra, as efforts began to ban movement between provinces and close foreign borders before polling day.
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A ban on the import of live poultry and feathers from Turkey was imposed by the European Commission on Monday after 1 870 birds died of avian flu last week. Amid fears that migrating birds are carrying a deadly strain of the virus from east Asia, the restrictions were rushed into place on Monday night.
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The Parliamentary Press Gallery Association (PGA) has demanded the urgent reinstatement of its telephone services and a further meeting with Parliament’s institutional support divisional manager. On Monday, the PGA held a special meeting to discuss the proposed relocation of offices for parliamentary-based journalists.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning on two corruption charges. Security was stepped up on Monday evening when a large crowd of Zuma’s supporters held an all-night vigil in front of the court building. Police have warned that only those with accreditation will be able to enter the court for the proceedings.
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/ 11 October 2005
United States millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen and a two-man, Russian-American crew returned from the International Space Station to Earth early on Tuesday in a lightning-swift, bone-jarring descent. The Russian Soyuz space capsule touched down on the cold, wind-swept steppes of northern Kazakhstan.