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/ 20 January 2005
South African professional golf has received another major boost with the announcement that leading cellular network provider Vodacom will sponsor the R2-million Vodacom Tour Championship on the summer leg of the Sunshine Tour next month. The championship will be played in Johannesburg from February 24 to 27.
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/ 20 January 2005
The Bush administration has blocked the reappointment of the United Nations’s Palestinian refugee agency chief, Peter Hansen, after a campaign by conservative and Jewish groups in the United States, and the government in Jerusalem which accused him of being an ”Israel hater”.
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/ 20 January 2005
Limpopo police have opened an inquest docket following the death of a 26-year-old border police officer who killed himself just minutes before he was to be arrested for corruption. The officer had been under investigation for allegedly accepting a R100 bribe from a Zimbabwean illegal immigrant.
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/ 20 January 2005
German toy boy Makoko the Gorilla appealed on Thursday to Jo’burgers to dig deep into their pockets to assist him with paying lobola for Max the Gorilla’s widow, Lisa. Makoko (19) moved from Munster Zoo in Germany last November to be with the 33-year-old Lisa, who has been single since the death of the crime-busting Max last May.
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/ 20 January 2005
Award-winning author and television scriptwriter K Sello Duiker was found hanged in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. Before his death, Duiker had been working as a commissioning editor for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. His first novel, <i>Thirteen Cents</i>, attracted considerable publicity and won a 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
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/ 20 January 2005
The 62 fraud charges against the mining magnate were thrown out of Johannesburg Regional Court on Wednesday by Magistrate Vivien Hawkins, who agreed with the defence that Kebble’s constitutional right to a speedy trial had been infringed by repeated postponements since his November 2002 arrest.
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/ 20 January 2005
Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats go into their party congress this weekend still trading punches with their former Western Cape leader Lennit Max, but increasingly confident that they can see off his court challenge without major damage. Max, has taken the party to court over the suspension of his membership.
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/ 20 January 2005
An official Sudanese committee of inquiry has determined that serious human rights abuses have been committed in the troubled Darfur region but rejected claims of ethnic cleansing and systematic rape. The committee report, unveiled on Wednesday, said: ”What had happened in Darfur … did not constitute a genocide crime.”
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/ 20 January 2005
Protesting prison warders taking part in a protest march in Pretoria on Thursday were urged not to sing about Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour’s mother’s genitals or accuse him of being full of shit. ”We are marching to protest against the reduction of warders on duty in prisons over the weekends,” said a Police and Civil Rights Union spokesperson.
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/ 20 January 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) outgoing CEO Peter Matlare has been appointed to Vodacom South Africa in the capacity of executive director: commercial, with effect from April 1, the group announced on Thursday.
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