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/ 27 September 2005
Figures released by Statistics South Africa show that "expanded unemployment" stood at 8,1-million people in South Africa by March this year — compared to 6,4-million in September 2000. Things have become much worse on the unemployment front, the Democratic Alliance said in reaction.
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/ 27 September 2005
Typhoon Damrey on Tuesday barrelled into the east coast of Vietnam, where officials evacuated 300 000 people after the storm tore a path of destruction through neighbouring China. The powerful storm, packing winds of more than 100kph, left at least nine people dead in south-west China on Monday.
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/ 27 September 2005
The Kruger National Park wants to shoot up to 6 000 elephants as part of a national culling programme that could start next winter, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has learnt. Thousands of elephants in other state and private reserves around the country will also be culled, if a South African National Parks report on elephant management is endorsed by the public.
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/ 27 September 2005
After 15 years of living in the city, Gcina Mahlatashana says his three months at the new Brickfields residential complex in Newtown has been his best inner-city-living experience yet. "In comparison to the buildings I have experienced living in, this is much better," he says, staring out across the Brickfields car park. The <i>M&G</i> investigates the various options available to those who are keen on inner-city living.
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/ 27 September 2005
Diplomats in the British Foreign Office are working frantically in private on what they refer to as the ”exit ticket” from Iraq. In contrast to the official line that British forces will remain until the job is done, the Foreign Office wants to engineer a set of circumstances in which both Britain and the United States can begin to reduce troops next year. But the speed with which unrest is growing is making this harder.
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/ 27 September 2005
Asians work harder than just about anyone else on Earth, but their societies and economies are being transformed as many nations shift to a five-day working week and citizens discover the weekend. Offices are being abandoned on Saturdays, allowing workers to flock to shopping centres and vacation destinations — triggering profound changes that will continue unfolding for decades, economists say.
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/ 26 September 2005
Iraqi gunmen on Monday murdered five teachers and a driver at a primary school as United States forces released more than 500 prisoners from the notorious Abu Ghraib jail. In the school attack, 10 gunmen dressed as police officers dragged the teachers from their classrooms, took them to an empty classroom and shot them, police said.
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/ 26 September 2005
Wildfires began claiming lives — both human and animal — on Monday as they ran unabated across the hot, dry countryside, fanned by heavy winds. A six-year-old girl, Bonakele Ngema, burnt to death in a house where she was trapped while seeking refuge from a roaring blaze that bore down on her in Mntanenkosi reserve, KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 26 September 2005
Albert ”Caesar” Tocco, a reputed Mob boss who was sentenced to 200 years after his wife took the unusual step of testifying against him, has died in an Indiana prison. He was 77. Tocco allegedly oversaw organised-crime operations in many of Chicago’s southern suburbs.