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A woman who tried to enrol at a nursing school by impersonating the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was on Thursday sentenced to 420 hours of community service by a Harare court. Rosemary Chakacha (24) phoned a matron at a Harare hospital on September 13 last year, saying she was Grace Mugabe and that she was sending two girls to be enrolled immediately.
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/ 1 September 2005
Mittal Steel is to ask the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Friday for an order interdicting members of labour union Solidarity from going on a pay strike. Documents to this effect were filed with the court on Wednesday, said the company’s spokesperson Tami Didiza. Arguments are to be heard on Friday.
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The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has rejected a proposed commission of inquiry into claims of a plot against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”The commission of inquiry on its own can’t resolve the underlying political problems we face,” Cosatu President Willie Madisha said on Thursday.
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/ 1 September 2005
The South African government has not been informed of the apparent rejection of its mediation role by Côte d’Ivoire rebels, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday. ”We have heard nothing, except through the media,” spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said.
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/ 1 September 2005
Illegal fishing off Somalia’s coast has reached proportions of about -million annually, a United Nations official said on Thursday in Nairobi. ”It is mostly foreign vessels but we don’t know who they are,” said Ghanim Alnajjar, the UN’s independent expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia.
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/ 1 September 2005
Cinderella may have been down on her luck, but no one expected her to show up in the red light district. Least of all the descendants of Sergei Prokofiev. They are so incensed at a Latvian production of the Russian composer’s ballet that they have forced the show to close by refusing rights to use the music.
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/ 1 September 2005
United States authorities stepped up efforts to empty the hurricane-stricken city of New Orleans on Thursday, sending in thousands of troops to confront rampaging looters. President George Bush vowed ”zero tolerance” for armed gangs and other profiteers from the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.
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/ 1 September 2005
The Vodacom Group has announced that the new tariff structure, of R2,99 per minute for all pre-paid calls made during peak times, has been approved by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa). The new tariff structure represents a reduction of up to 17% the company said.
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The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has not succeeded in negotiations with their staff over a wage dispute. According to a statement on Wednesday, the Commission Staff Association is preparing to poll its membership on whether to strike, following the deadlock in salary negotiations.
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Former Springbok rugby player, Howard Watt, who died earlier this week at the Amberfield Frail Care home in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, was the last surviving member of the 1937 tour to Australia and New Zealand, and the last surviving pre-World War II Springbok.