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Three elderly people will appear in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges relating to the distribution of child pornography, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Superintendent Phindile Radebe said the three — a couple and their relative — together with another man were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday after an extensive six month investigation.
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/ 9 September 2005
The Cape High Court on Friday set aside the Independent Democrats’ expulsion of its deputy leader Themba Sono, paving the way for him to cross the floor to another party. The ID terminated Sono’s membership in August, saying he had not paid a R10 membership fee and that he ceased to be an ID member when he joined another political party.
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/ 9 September 2005
International Cycling Union (UCI) chief Hein Verbruggen said on Friday no action would be taken against Lance Armstrong following the recent allegations of doping against the American cyclist. Armstrong, who retired after his seventh consecutive Tour de France victory in July, had been accused of using banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) by French sports daily L’Equipe.
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/ 9 September 2005
New Orleans police were on Friday preparing to begin the first forcible removals of the estimated 10 000 residents still refusing to leave the city. A final sweep for voluntary refugees was under way on Thursday night, but some locals were already being taken away by force.
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/ 9 September 2005
A man fired for insubordination and intimidation shot his manager and then himself in a cargo section of Johannesburg International airport on Friday, police said. After a disciplinary hearing, the man produced a firearm and shot his manager, a 57-year-old man, in the head and chest.
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/ 9 September 2005
Listed clothing manufacturer and retailer Rex Trueform Clothing Company has reported a jump in headline earnings per share for the year to the end of June 2005 to 62,5 cents from a restated 19,3 cents a year earlier. The board declared a dividend of 25 cents per share for the year, up from 20 cents in 2004.
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/ 9 September 2005
Lebogang Lance Nawa is a poet whose relevance did not fade with the dawn of freedom. The issues he has dealt with in <i>Through the Eye of a Needle</i> are very contemporary, writes Sabata-mpho Mokae.
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/ 9 September 2005
The book <i>Place of Reeds</i> is not the normal "expatriate in Africa" memoir. It transcends this genre in its depth of concern for Botswana, writes Sheldon Weeks.
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/ 9 September 2005
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> At a time when most horror movies seem to be gorefests, clichéfests or send-ups, a movie such as <i>Dark Water</i> shows that they can still be original and fresh, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 9 September 2005
Two exhibitions of South Africa’s greatest documentary photographer, David Goldblatt’s photographs show his different sides, writes Shaun de Waal.