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/ 13 October 2005
Osama bin Laden’s deputy has sent a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the militant leader in Iraq, setting out a blueprint for taking control of the country when American troops leave, according to United States intelligence officials. The plans are set out in a 6 000-word letter dated July 9 this year.
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/ 13 October 2005
South African resources companies Anglo American and Kumba Resources on Thursday announced a major black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction that will result in the establishment of the country’s largest black-owned, -controlled and -managed company with an enterprise value of about R16-billion.
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/ 13 October 2005
Have children? Feel like a quiet weekend? Why not rent your kids out to complete (and paying) strangers for the weekend, to get some peace and quiet? Yes, you read it right — instead of lying around the house in some enforced phase of extended stupidity known as "childhood", your children could be earning you big money, every weekend!
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/ 13 October 2005
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany on Wednesday announced he is bowing out of public life and said he will not serve in a ”grand coalition” under Angela Merkel, despite earlier speculation he might stay on as foreign minister. ”I will not belong to the next government, definitely not,” said an emotional Schröder.
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/ 12 October 2005
A groundbreaking gender equality training course for local government officials has wrapped up in Johannesburg. ”The course was the first of its kind in South Africa and the region involving gender and local government,” said Colleen Lowe Morna, director of Gender Links, the NGO headquartered in Johannesburg that organised the training.
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/ 12 October 2005
Publisher Deon du Plessis likes to see newspapers as pure business. I first heard him warm to the theme more than 10 years back. It was a workshop debating ”the role of the media in the new South Africa”. His take, seemingly crass at the time, was very simple. The role was nothing more than to make money.
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/ 12 October 2005
Ten-year-old Liam Aspeling, who was kidnapped on Tuesday morning, arrived home to a hero’s welcome in a police car at his Ennerdale, Johannesburg, home on Wednesday evening. Still in his school uniform, he was lifted on to the shoulders of an adult and waved at well-wishers in the street.
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/ 12 October 2005
Zimbabwe’s main opposition on Wednesday announced it will boycott next month’s polls to a newly created Upper House of Parliament, saying elections in the country are a farce and breed ”illegitimate outcomes”. Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said democracy in Zimbabwe is still a farce.
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/ 12 October 2005
The African National Congress was dismayed by an incident in Durban on Tuesday in which supporters of axed deputy president Jacob Zuma burned T-shirts bearing the face of President Thabo Mbeki. Zuma was greeted by hundreds of supporters outside the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.