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/ 6 September 2005
Policemen who allegedly extort money from foreigners arrested for not having the necessary documentation have been exposed at the Booysens police station in southern Johannesburg. The policemen were exposed on SABC 3’s Special Assignment programme on Tuesday night.
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/ 6 September 2005
The devastation set to be revealed by Hurricane Katrina’s receding floodwaters will shock the United States, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin predicted on Tuesday as military engineers plugged one of the biggest gaps in the city’s levee system. ”It’s going to be awful and it’s going to wake the nation up again,” he said, estimating that it would take three weeks to drain the water.
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/ 6 September 2005
Iran could develop nuclear bomb-making capability within five years, but a longer timeframe is more likely, a leading thinktank said on Tuesday. A report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies found that international political opposition to Tehran pushing ahead with its nuclear programme made it probable that a 10-15 year timescale was more realistic.
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/ 6 September 2005
The Democratic Alliance has proposed six measures the government should take to reduce the ever increasing fuel price. ”Government can and should take proactive steps to decrease the price of petrol,” DA MP and minerals and energy spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt told a media briefing at Parliament on Tuesday.
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/ 6 September 2005
Successfully applying for a postponement on Tuesday, arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne suggested in an application before the Cape High Court that Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s sequestration action was ”malicious”. Crawford-Browne said it was ”unreasonable” for an individual, who acted in the public interest, to be punished or sequestrated for legal costs.
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/ 6 September 2005
Talks between the government and business on ways to boost economic growth and reduce unemployment and poverty continued on Tuesday with a presidential Business Unity South Africa (Busa) working group meeting at Tuynhuys in Cape Town.
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/ 6 September 2005
The Medicines Control Council of South Africa has been ordered to probe claims that the industrial solvent, Virodene, is being openly peddled on the internet as a cure for HIV/Aids, the office of Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday.
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/ 6 September 2005
A charming and ruthless British conman who posed as a spy to extort huge sums from a string of victims was jailed for life on Tuesday. He had persuaded his victims to think they were on the run from terrorists. Robert Hendy-Freegard was sentenced at Blackfriars Crown Court in central London after being found guilty of a string of crimes related to deception.
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/ 6 September 2005
Glamorgan seamer Simon Jones has been left rueing an injured right ankle which, after a fitness test, ruled him out of selection for England’s deciding Ashes Test at The Oval on Thursday. Jones was put through his paces at Lord’s on Tuesday morning but his ankle was still painful and he was ruled out immediately.