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/ 13 January 2005

Correctional Services threatens more dismissals

More prison workers could be fired following threats of legal action by the South African Prisoners Human Rights Organisation (Sapohr), National Correctional Services Commissioner Linda Mti warned on Thursday. Sapohr has served papers on the Department of Correctional Services after the dismissal of prison staff in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.

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/ 13 January 2005

England go to lunch on 77 for one

It was honours even at lunch on the first day of the fourth Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test at the Wanderers on Thursday. England, who won the toss and chose to bat, went to lunch on 77 for the loss of one wicket. South Africa made two changes to the team that won the third Test.

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/ 13 January 2005

Tsunami-hit rebels urge ceasefire

Rebels in Indonesia’s tsunami-hit Aceh on called Thursday for ceasefire talks to help the aid effort as new restrictions on foreign relief workers in the province prompted the United States to demand clarification from Jakarta.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177895">Tsunami toll tops 163 000</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=177893">SA tsunami death toll rises to 11</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177840">Govt restricts foreigners in Aceh</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=177841">Trickling back to a city’s only school</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=177830">’Something we’ve never seen before'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/content/l3_fl2.asp?cg=tsunami%20disaster&o=194303"><b>Tsunami disaster special report</b></a>

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/ 13 January 2005

Cheating husband has to pay up

An errant husband who agreed to give his wife (R72) for every hour he stayed out past midnight has been ordered by a court to pay her hundreds of dollars, a news report said on Thursday. The couple in Chongqing, central China, struck the agreement to give her peace of mind after she caught him cheating.

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/ 13 January 2005

Jonathan Moyo barred from March polls

Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has ”now been officially barred” from contesting the March legislative elections as a candidate of the ruling party. State media said that Moyo ”will not stand on a Zanu-PF ticket in the forthcoming parliamentary elections after the seat was reserved for women candidates to punish those who took part” in an unsanctioned secret succession meeting last year.

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/ 13 January 2005

Technology blues

This hasn’t been a good year for technology. Well, not for me, anyway. And that doesn’t augur well — we still have 50 weeks to go. Among other mishaps, since I sat down to write this column, my laptop has hung and my ADSL connection keeps coming and going. But the biggest catastrophe of the year has been my hard drive being whacked, becoming a rather expensive, 80GB paperweight. But help is on hand in the online chat rooms …

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/ 13 January 2005

No comment as Mbeki leaves DRC

South African President Thabo Mbeki left the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late on Wednesday after eight hours of high-level talks on the post-war transition process in the vast Central African country. On arrival earlier on Wednesday, Mbeki went straight into talks with President Joseph Kabila.

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/ 13 January 2005

The Big Easy and the Big Wiesy

Ernie Els has played before the largest galleries this week at the Sony Open, in part because he is trying to become the first player in its 40-year history to win three straight times — and because the Big Easy has been hanging around the Big Wiesy. In the first full-field event, 15-year-old Michelle Wie remains the star attraction.