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/ 23 September 2005
Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla met Moutse residents on Thursday in an attempt to address their concerns over demarcation into Limpopo. Mpumalanga government spokesperson Lebona Mosia said Makwetla’s visit to the town followed protests and violence over the integration of the town into the Limpopo province.
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/ 23 September 2005
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) on Friday welcomed the government’s view of a single police force in South Africa. On Wednesday, Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula said the African National Congress is considering forming a single police force under one command.
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/ 23 September 2005
Earthlife Africa expressed concern on Friday over the exclusion of its nominees to a team conducting a health study at the country’s nuclear facility in Pelindaba. ”We now have no hope that the Necsa [Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa] study will be independent. It looks like a whitewash,” said spokesperson Mashile Phalane.
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/ 23 September 2005
Four of Harare’s top police officers have been sent on leave and replaced by war veterans, the state-controlled Herald reported on Friday. Nomutsa Chideya, the town clerk, said that four senior managers in the municipal police department had been sent on ”indefinite” forced leave starting on Thursday.
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/ 23 September 2005
The roll-out of the taxi recapitalisation project has entered "a critical stage" and the Transport Department has targeted the scrapping of "at least" 10 000 old taxi vehicles from December 2005 to December 2006, says Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe.
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/ 23 September 2005
World oil prices eased on Friday, even as Hurricane Rita approached the coast of Texas, on hopes that the weakening storm might cause less damage to oil installations than first feared, dealers said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, gave up 70 cents to $65,80 per barrel in electronic trading.
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/ 23 September 2005
”Kaizer Chiefs have lived up to their billing as pioneers and innovators of local football, albeit in ways that they would not be proud of,” writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya. ”If the Premier Soccer League has its way, Chiefs will also be the first local side to be forced to play in an empty stadium.”
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/ 23 September 2005
A friend of mine has a theory about the Champions League. It goes: ”My Brazilians are better than your Brazilians” — and it has substance. As Europe’s elite competition got under way this month, there was yet more evidence of results being defined by sons of South America.
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/ 23 September 2005
The best club team in the world, if international players’ organisation Fifpro is to be believed, is AC Milan. Yes, the Italian side beaten on penalties by Liverpool in last season’s European Cup final in Istanbul, the outfit incapable of holding on to a 3-0 half-time lead, managed to get no fewer than five players into the world’s best side.
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/ 23 September 2005
Nothing in domestic soccer shows the problems that beset the game better than the South African Football Association (Safa) national executive committee elections held every four years. This is an occasion when regional representatives should decide who can develop and channel the game in the right direction for another term.