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/ 28 January 2005
Ahead of Saturday’s highly charged FA Cup clash with the club he left two months ago, Southampton manager Harry Redknapp tells Donald McRae about the pain of his new job. Despite Southampton’s welcome 2-0 defeat of a woeful Liverpool last Saturday, the struggle has merely intensified.
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/ 28 January 2005
”Blacks don’t have an identity in South African rugby because of the complexities of what constitutes black. Black is not coloured and coloured is not black. While this debate continues, the white conservatives sit back and play the role of puppeteer.” Former Springbok communications manager Mark Keohane writes for the Mail & Guardian.
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/ 28 January 2005
A long-awaited retrospective of the art of Dumile Feni launches this weekend, at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. It is a maniacal visualisation of what the word "struggle" meant to him, writes Brenton Maart.
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/ 28 January 2005
Postal workers in the south-eastern French city of Saint Etienne refused to do their rounds on Thursday after they were denied extra pay to cope with the biting winter cold, employees and management said. About 70 of the workers did not deliver mail to homes and businesses.
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/ 28 January 2005
As criminal proceedings hang over 40 MPs linked to Travelgate, Parliament’s multimillion-rand travel voucher scam, liquidation hearings that could implicate a further 70 parliamentarians are stuck in the Cape High Court. The 40 MPs currently involved in plea bargaining negotiations with the Scorpions were clients of two travel agencies that have been liquidated.
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/ 28 January 2005
Nick McDonald, a former policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theatre after President John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died on Thursday. He was 76. McDonald arrived at Dallas’s Dealey Plaza moments after Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963.
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/ 28 January 2005
World number six gold miner Harmony Gold on Thursday announced that it has elected to waive the minimum acceptance condition — that it secure 50,1% of Gold Fields stock — in terms of its subsequent offer to Gold Fields shareholders. "As a consequence, the subsequent offer has been declared unconditional as to acceptances," Harmony said.
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/ 28 January 2005
South Africa’s petrol price for all grades will decline by two cents a litre from midnight on Tuesday February 2, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel 0,3% sulphur will decrease by eight cents per litre and that of diesel 0,05% sulphur by seven cents per litre.
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/ 28 January 2005
Red on the faces of officials and politicians in the departments of defence and arts and culture! And this time, the total onslaught is one of sheer ignorance and incompetence, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 28 January 2005
An isolated community of endangered gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is managing to hold its own and may even be growing despite the constant threat from poachers and civil war, a United States-based conservation organisation said on Thursday.