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/ 12 September 2005
Two police officers accused of corruption were refused bail in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes Court on Monday. ”Bail was not granted for the two men and they remain in custody,” said Superintendent Andy Pieke, of the East Rand police. Pieke said the case was postponed for further investigation.
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/ 12 September 2005
An outbreak of trypanosomiasis, the ”sleeping sickness” transmitted to humans by the bite of a tsetse fly, has reached epidemic proportions in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to statistics released by health authorities, about 1Â 650 people have been infected with the disease.
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/ 12 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s police on Monday warned they will arrest private bus operators who have hiked fares following a doubling of fuel prices amid triple-digit inflation and a lingering transport crisis. Police spokesperson Inspector Loveless Rupere said ”commuter operators should revert to old fares or risk being arrested”.
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/ 12 September 2005
United States President George Bush faced an uncertain welcome on Monday as he prepared for his first close-up view of storm-wrecked New Orleans, two weeks to the day after Hurricane Katrina turned one of the country’s proudest cities into a swamped horror.
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/ 12 September 2005
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) has complied with the demand by Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile that he be provided with a report outlining the way forward for rugby in South Africa. A ministry spokesperson confirmed on Monday that it had received a two-page fax from Saru.
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/ 12 September 2005
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees urged the international community on Friday to take measures to stop desperate people being smuggled out of Somalia to Yemen by unscrupulous traders. At least 150 people have died in dangerous boat journeys across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia during the past three weeks.
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/ 12 September 2005
Hundreds of people stripped off in Lyon, France, on Sunday to pose naked for United States photographer Spencer Tunick, who has made a name for himself by organising mass nude photo shoots around the world. Men and women of all ages turned up in the early hours to obey Tunick’s orders.
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/ 12 September 2005
Britons have spent billions of pounds on household gadgets such as sandwich toasters and bathroom scales that they ended up never or rarely using, a study said on Monday. An online home-insurance firm Esure estimated Britons have collectively spent £9,4-billion (R109,7-billion) during their lifetime on gadgets.
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/ 12 September 2005
Proceedings in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court against two travel agents implicated in Parliament’s travel scam were stopped on Monday, when their lawyers successfully argued that another postponement would prejudice their right to a speedy trial. The matter has been referred to the Cape High Court.
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/ 12 September 2005
The case of a 39-year-old teacher who is still working after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl is ”deeply concerning”, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union said on Monday. The story of the statutory rape was published in The Star newspaper on Monday.