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/ 13 January 2005
It’s been a while since Lemmer straddled a desk at the Dorsbult Christelike Sekondêre Skool vir Moedswillige Seuns, but he can still remember the pleasure of opening brand-new textbooks: Die Bantu Hordes was a favourite of the district inspector, who translated it into English as Die, Bantu Hordes! It saddens him, therefore, to read a report from News24 that new South African textbooks while skimping on coverage of disabled people.
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/ 13 January 2005
A tsunami of human solidarity is sweeping across the surface of the globe in response to the physical tsunami that has ravaged many shores of the Indian Ocean. Every day brings a staggering upward estimate of deaths — and of aid donations. At a season of religious festivals, the rich peoples of the world indulge in a benign competition to do good.
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/ 13 January 2005
It is Baghdad on a winter morning chilled by yet another power cut and parents are dropping off their children for school. A vast generator rumbles so loudly in the street that it shakes the pink swings and blue roundabouts in the small grass playground outside.
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It has lured racers for a quarter of a century, serving up bone-jarring adventure through the Sahara desert in one of the most harrowing motor racing competitions on the planet. Sandstorms, land mines, armed bandits and sand dunes so steep they can hurl cars upside down are all part of the perilous history of the Dakar Rally.
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/ 13 January 2005
The injury bug that bit Andre Agassi in Melbourne appeared to travel about 900km to the Sydney Olympic tennis complex on Thursday. While Agassi’s hip injury forced him out of the Kooyong Classic exhibition tournament in Melbourne, five players, including top-seeded Lindsay Davenport, pulled out of matches at the Sydney International.
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/ 13 January 2005
Adrian Mutu, sacked by Chelsea for using cocaine, has signed a five-year contract with Juventus, a source at the Italian Serie A club reported on Wednesday. The Romanian international striker was released by the Premiership leaders in October after testing positive for the recreational drug.
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/ 13 January 2005
South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers won the 12th stage of the Dakar Rally as the gruelling off-road race crossed from Mauritania to Mali on Wednesday. De Villiers finished the 586km trek from Kiffa, Mauritania, to Mali’s capital, Bamako, in seven hours, 20 minutes and 58 seconds.
The deadly Dakar Rally
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One schoolboy fatally stabbed another while running with a 10cm-long knife in northern Vietnam, a local police officer said on Thursday. Nguyen Van Tuyen (13) was running downstairs holding the knife used for pencil sharpening. He then collided with Dinh Van Son (14), who was running upstairs.
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/ 13 January 2005
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunamis that devastated Indian Ocean coastlines last month rose to 163 338 on Thursday as Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka reported new deaths. Indonesia was hardest-hit by the December 26 quake and tsunamis, with 110 229 confirmed deaths by Thursday.
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