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/ 25 January 2005
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change is caught in a catch-22 situation in deciding whether to participate in Zimbabwe’s upcoming general elections, party leader Morgan Tsvangirai said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. ”We are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t,” he told participants in a seminar on opposition parties and democracy in Africa.
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/ 25 January 2005
Roger Federer sent out a chilling warning to his title rivals with a straight-sets demolition of Andre Agassi to charge into the semifinals of the Australian Open on Tuesday. The world number one stretched his unbeaten match streak to 26 as he put the four-times winner and eighth seed to the sword, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 39 minutes.
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/ 25 January 2005
The Treatment Action Campaign has criticised the Catholic Bishops’ Conference in Southern Africa for saying the government should promote abstinence and not condoms in the fight against Aids because condoms are ”clearly not working”. ”It’s a sorry situation to find a person of such influence preaching such a message,” a TAC spokesperson said.
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/ 25 January 2005
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union accused the Department of Education on Tuesday of taking the credit when pupils from disadvantaged schools do well, while downplaying the bad conditions under which they learn. Tuesday was the last day of the Access to Learning Material Conference in Parktown, Johannesburg.
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/ 25 January 2005
Fans of literary boy wizard Harry Potter have been beating a path to the tomb of a 19-year-old British soldier who is buried in a cemetery close to Tel Aviv, the <i>Maariv</i> daily reported. Corporal Harry Potter, a member of the Royal Worcestershire regiment, was killed 66 years ago during fighting in the West Bank town of Hebron.
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/ 25 January 2005
British police spent £10 000 (R111 000) to catch and prosecute a woman driver for eating an apple while behind the wheel, reports said on Tuesday. Sarah McCaffrey, a 23-year-old nursery nurse, was fined £60 (R660) on Monday and ordered to pay £100 (R1 100) in legal fees.
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/ 25 January 2005
A security guard was too far from where Nelson Chisale was being assaulted to save him, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court — trying three men accused of feeding Chisale to lions — heard on Tuesday. He also had no phone to call for help, Forget Tsaku Ndlovu testified.
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/ 25 January 2005
There was a crush at the door of Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Tuesday as spectators jostled for seats in the public gallery for the second day in the trial of three men accused of feeding a former colleague to lions. People queued outside from early on Tuesday morning to be assured of a place inside.
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/ 25 January 2005
Springbok flank Schalk Burger has vehemently denied reports that he was involved in an incident of road rage in Stellenbosch a fortnight ago. According to the Cape Times, Burger allegedly left an unidentified Parow man with a broken jaw after he drove into Burger’s car in Stellenbosch on January 10.
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/ 25 January 2005
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa on Tuesday declared a dispute at the Volkswagen South Africa manufacturing plant in Uitenhage over an incentive scheme and what it calls unilateral outsourcing of the packing department at the parts-distribution division at Roodekop in Gauteng.