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/ 30 March 2005

New prison plan to create thousands of jobs

Massive restructuring in South African prisons will result in the abolition of weekend overtime for warders, and the creation of 8 311 new jobs, the minister of correctional services said on Wednesday. The department will be phasing in a seven-day working week, which will save millions of rands in overtime payouts each year.

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/ 30 March 2005

Reds looking to break opponents’ stranglehold

Reds flyer Drew Mitchell believes carefully concocted offensive tactics will help Queensland break the Highlanders’ Super 12 defensive stranglehold on Friday night. Mitchell Wednesday revealed Queensland’s coaching staff have pinpointed several weaknesses in their opponents defensive structure that permitted only six tries in five games.

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/ 30 March 2005

Mona Lisa has left the building

The tourists streaming through the Louvre in quest of the Mona Lisa will look in vain this coming Monday in the pink room, where she has traditionally been housed. Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait, also known as La Giaconda, has a new home in the renovated Salle des Etats, about 150m away in the famous Paris museum.

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/ 30 March 2005

Hunting around Kruger National Park suspended

The Limpopo provincial government has placed a moratorium on hunting in the private nature reserves that border the Kruger National Park (KNP). The moratorium concerns private reserves that are not separated from the KNP by a fence. However, the chairperson of the Timbavati Association has called the moratorium ”totally illegal”.

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/ 30 March 2005

Reward offered in Free State murder case

The police have offered a reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the killers of a senior Free State government official. ”No arrests had yet been made in the investigation into the murder of [Noby] Ngombane,” police spokesperson Superintendent Annelie Wrench said on Wednesday.

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/ 30 March 2005

Order-driven JSE ticks higher

The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) recouped early losses to trade slightly higher just after midday on Wednesday in a primarily order-driven market. Dealers said that a slight weakening in the rand from levels seen earlier in the morning was also helping.