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/ 16 September 2005
On Tuesday night, at his home in Hermanus, Chief Rabbi Emeritus Cyril Harris died of cancer of the oesophagus, just six days short of his 69th birthday. Glasgow-born Harris, for 17 years South Africa’s chief rabbi, was, in many ways, a paradox.
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/ 16 September 2005
Extra-parliamentary groups in Zimbabwe have signalled their intention to "fight the expropriation of the Constitution" by the ruling Zanu-PF. In a move seen as showing disillusionment with party politics in the country, more than 500 delegates from 50 civic groups will converge on Harare this weekend under the banner "Deciding Zimbabwe’s Destiny".
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/ 16 September 2005
BMW have signed Nick Heidfeld to drive for their new formula-one team on a three-year contract beginning next year. The 28-year-old German currently races for Williams, who part company with BMW at the end of this season. The German manufacturer has bought the Sauber team, and Heidfeld is the new outfit’s first driver signing.
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/ 16 September 2005
Striking staff of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) will be asked to consider new proposals that emerged from the latest round of pay talks, the staff association’s secretary general said on Friday. ”We will also get feedback from national leadership,” said Lekau Dibakwane.
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/ 16 September 2005
A Pretoria High Court judge on Friday told a self-confessed male prostitute and killer that it is up to him to rehabilitate himself, before jailing him for 14 years.
Acting Judge Kobus van Rooyen sentenced Charles Peter Barker to direct imprisonment for the 2004 murder and robbery of high-school opera teacher Allen Sim.
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/ 16 September 2005
A third person has died of typhoid in Mpumalanga following an outbreak of the disease, the province’s department of health and social services said on Friday. The provincial health minister said the government is doing its utmost to stabilise the impact and prevent further outbreaks of typhoid and diarrhoea in Delmas.
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/ 16 September 2005
A suicide car bomber struck worshippers leaving a Shi’ite mosque in a northern Iraqi city on Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 21 others. Twelve other people were killed as the Sunni-dominated insurgency pressed its ”all-out war” against the government and majority Shi’ite population.
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/ 16 September 2005
Thousands of Palestinians broke through Egyptian and Palestinian Authority lines on the Gaza border on Friday, pouring into Egypt in defiance of government attempts to secure the frontier. It was the second afternoon in a row when crowd power overwhelmed the measures imposed in the morning to restore order on the Gaza-Egypt border.
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/ 16 September 2005
Gabon’s National Communication Council (CNC) has warned the bosses of 22 private newspapers and radio stations to stop doubling up jobs incompatible with their public duties, a CNC statement said. The CNC on Thursday quoted the code that regulates the media in the oil-rich Central African nation.
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/ 16 September 2005
Knowing is one thing, but doing is another, as Aussie Mark Hensby discovered in his World Match Play Championship quarterfinal clash with Retief Goosen in Wentworth on Friday. The 38-year-old had admitted before his 8.30am tee time that he had his work cut out for him against the world number five.