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The snail-paced Ophelia, downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, picked up speed and moved out to sea early on Friday after a three-day drenching of North Carolina in the United States that was far less severe than many had anticipated. To the south, the storm’s gusty wind ripped apart businesses and damaged homes.
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/ 16 September 2005
Recent meetings with municipalities to discuss their finances were ”a disaster and a nightmare,” the Free State legislature’s public accounts committee said on Friday. The committee met municipalities during August to consider reports of the auditor general on the financial statements of all municipalities.
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/ 16 September 2005
The United States President, George Bush, on Friday accepted responsibility for his administration’s failure to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina. He also pledged that the government will pay for most of the costs of rebuilding the American Gulf Coast.
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/ 16 September 2005
The burst pipe that flooded Meredale in southern Johannesburg with 80-million litres of water in July was the result of corrosion and a 41-year-old bad weld, Rand Water said on Friday. Rand Water chief executive Simo Lushaba said the pipe that burst developed a leak along a seam that had been welded in 1964.
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/ 16 September 2005
United States experts arrived on Friday to help Indian firefighters battle a major blaze at a burst oil well which was sending smoke and flames shooting into the sky, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents. Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night but failed to put out the blaze near Dikom, 520km east of Assam state’s main city Guwahati.
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/ 16 September 2005
Researchers in Kenya and South Africa are using cellphone technology to gather information on elephants, cheetahs, leopards and other animals. The relatively cheap tracking device includes a no-frills cellphone that is put in a weatherproof case with a GPS receiver, memory card and software to operate the system. The unit, placed on a collar, is then tied around the neck of a wild animal.
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/ 16 September 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Weeks after the release of director Wes Craven’s <i>Cursed</i>, he is back with the highly thrilling <i>Red Eye</i> and it’s hard to believe it’s from the same director, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 16 September 2005
Distell Group, South Africa’s largest listed wine and spirits producer, will be unveiling details of its long-awaited black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction on Wednesday September 21, the company said on Friday. Distell will make an announcement together with its partners on the initiative at its Nederberg cellar in Paarl.
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/ 16 September 2005
On Wednesday, he was just watering the dead bonsai juniper on his desk when his in-box pinged. Dave down in Concentric Redundancies had flagged the e-mail as possessing "Extreme Priority", as he did with all his messages: Mr Maseko upstairs had already had a word with Dave about sending photographs of a brown smudge on various hideous quilts.
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/ 16 September 2005
The South African government-owned State Information Technology Agency’s net profit after tax for the period ended March this year jumped by 69% to R59,303-million from R35,085-million reported previously, Sita CEO Mavuso Msimang said on Friday. Revenue grew by 14,5% to R2,636-billion.