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/ 24 January 2005
Minister of Education Naledi Pandor officially launched the South African Education internet portal while visiting schools in George, her department said on Monday. The bright green site is easy to access and registration is simple. But the search for online information seems a bit more complicated, the Mail & Guardian Online found.
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/ 24 January 2005
Lleyton Hewitt and Alicia Molik gave home fans something to savour for the first time in 17 years on Monday after sweeping into the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. World number three Hewitt reached the last eight after a thrilling five-set duel with unseeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
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/ 24 January 2005
Rival parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will begin new talks next week to work out a timetable for elections, a senior member of Parliament said on Monday in a new indication that the polls may be put off. The announcement came as South African President Thabo Mbeki put off a mediation visit planned for Tuesday.
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/ 24 January 2005
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder condemned on Monday a far-right party whose members refused to observe a minute’s silence for the victims of the Nazis, marring Auschwitz anniversary commemorations. ”This attitude hurts us and is not the image of Germany we want to project,” he said.
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/ 24 January 2005
A government spokesperson said on Monday that Iran will be ready to talk to the United States about its nuclear programme but without preconditions, Isna students’ news agency reported. The US has accused Iran of developing weapons of mass destruction and of trying to undermine its efforts in Iraq.
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/ 24 January 2005
A former Cuban spy living in South Africa could be sent to the United States for trial after his application to prevent his extradition was dismissed in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. In April 2003, the Randburg Magistrate’s Court ruled and ordered that on the evidence before the court, Nelson Yester Garrido be extradited to the US.
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/ 24 January 2005
President Thabo Mbeki paid a surprise visit to the troubled Moqhaka municipality in the Free State on Monday. Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff told journalists the meeting was part of the president’s unannounced visits to municipalities to check on service delivery. Marshoff said the Free State was privileged to be the first visited by the president.
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/ 24 January 2005
Kimi Raikkonen is confident the new McLaren car will be able to challenge Ferrari’s formula-one supremacy. McLaren launched the MP4-20 at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, hoping to avoid the mistakes that led to a terrible start to 2004. The car is an update of the MP4-19B, which was used for the second half of 2004.
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/ 24 January 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki is due in Kinshasa on Tuesday to push the fragile peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but few believe elections will take place in June as scheduled. The country is struggling to reach the objectives of the December 2002 peace accord, which ended five years of war in the huge country.