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/ 23 September 2005
It is clear many South Africans, including some in the African National Congress, appear to think their new democracy gives them the freedom to engage in corrupt practices, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He said the party, government and people are deeply concerned about the incidence of corruption in South Africa.
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/ 23 September 2005
Thank goodness I’m too old to join the humiliating queue of black actors looking for work these days. I no longer have to fret about black Yankees being cast in roles that African actors can fulfil with ease, grace and, dare one say it, the whiff of authenticity. I’m at peace, way beyond the petty debate.
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/ 23 September 2005
The typhoid outbreak in the Mpumalanga town of Delmas is the result of the African National Congress’s failure to heed warnings the area was facing a major public health risk, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. ”What is happening in Delmas is also happening in ANC-controlled municipalities across the country,” he said in his weekly newsletter.
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/ 23 September 2005
Journalists and spectators were banned from soccer ace Benedict Vilakazi’s rape trial on Friday because his alleged victim, a 15-year-old girl, testified in camera. The girl, who is eight months pregnant, looked demure in a black and white dress and white cardigan before her cross-examination by Vilakazi’s new lawyer.
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/ 23 September 2005
A 20-year-old Indonesian maid has been jailed for four years for injecting liquid soap into the feeding tube of a bedridden 85-year-old woman under her care. Dewi Supriyatin, who was sentenced on Thursday in a Singapore district court, committed the offence in February this year as she was unhappy and tired of looking after her employer’s mother-in-law.
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/ 23 September 2005
The South African Post Office made a R135-million profit from trading operations for the financial year ended March 2005 — an improvement of R108-million on last year. It was the Post Office’s second year of profitability. Cash generated from operations amounted to R371-million.
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/ 23 September 2005
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital has been given priority in the government’s hospital revitalisation programme after Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said she would hesitate to seek treatment there. On a tour of the hospital on Thursday, Tshabalala-Msimang saw how patients at the Soweto hospital had no bed linen and were given ragged blankets.
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/ 23 September 2005
South Africa’s wine drinkers will soon have the choice of imbibing their favourite wines out of a can for the first time, as Australian group Barokes introduces its patented canned-wine technology to the country. The group is currently in negotiations with several major wineries and wine regions in South Africa.
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/ 23 September 2005
He was whisked away from his newsroom, bundled into a police van and detained for four years before being released without charge. Years later, Levison Lifikiro still isn’t sure of his crime. Instead he lives with the pain of losing his job and family as a constant reminder of those wasted years.
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/ 23 September 2005
Can’t seem to navigate China’s mammoth city of Shanghai? Check your map, it’s probably counterfeit. An increasing number of drivers in Shanghai are having trouble getting to their destinations when they rely on their car’s global positioning system because many electronic maps installed are fake.