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/ 14 September 2005
Western Cape police are investigating cases of murder, assault, arson and public violence after a crowd turned violent in St Helena Bay on Tuesday evening. The violence followed a gathering by about 300 people in Laingville, St Helena Bay, at about 6pm, Inspector Bernadine Steyn said.
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/ 14 September 2005
So, a freelance cameraman films a National Women’s Day address by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. He captures people protesting in favour of her predecessor, Jacob Zuma. South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) news fails to broadcast the incident.
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/ 14 September 2005
Crime levels in South Africa are decreasing but negative perceptions on crime have doubled since 1994, a conference on prison overcrowding heard on Wednesday. ”Crime in general has come down between 1994 and 2004. The public perception is contrary to that,” said Anton du Plessis, head of the crime and justice programme at the Institute for Security Studies.
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/ 14 September 2005
South Africa’s state-owned oil and gas entity, PetroSA, has posted a pre-tax profit of R1,8-billion for the financial year ended March 31 2005, a substantial improvement on the R240-million recorded in 2004, on the back of record high international oil prices, a firmer rand and strict cost containment.
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/ 14 September 2005
Border rugby’s reluctance to support a motion that South African Rugby Union (Saru) president Brian van Rooyen stand down has elicited fierce condemnation from Saru vice-president Mike Stofile. Stofile has accused Border Rugby Football Union president Monwabisi Yako of deliberately acting in his own interests.
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/ 14 September 2005
Hurricane Ophelia edged toward North Carolina early on Wednesday, but many in the storm’s path shrugged at the threat of flooding rain and wind even as officials urged them to evacuate. The National Hurricane Centre upgraded the storm’s status from a tropical storm to a category-one hurricane on Tuesday.
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/ 14 September 2005
At least 87 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday as 10 suicide bombings left a trail of carnage after Iraqi leaders finally completed a draft constitution in a new milestone in the political transition. United States and Iraqi officials said nearly 200 people were also wounded in the bombings.
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/ 14 September 2005
Hamas militants blew a gaping hole on Wednesday in a concrete barrier on the Gaza Strip’s southern border, enabling Palestinians to continue surging into Egypt despite pledges to restore order. Under pressure from Israel, Egyptian authorities set a new deadline for all Palestinians to return to the Gaza side.
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/ 14 September 2005
Big Sheep is challenging Big Brother as a viewing favourite for Croatians. Artist Sinisa Labrovic’s sheep are living, eating and sleeping — and even have writers reading them their works — in a ruined factory building in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, as part of an arts festival.
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/ 14 September 2005
The latest bizarre controversy to engulf South African soccer — whether spectators will be allowed to watch the eagerly awaited Premier Soccer League (PSL) game between Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns at the FNB Stadium on Sunday — on Tuesday became, in the words of author Lewis Carroll, curiouser and curiouser.