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Three men are expected to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday after traveller’s cheques worth about R1-million were stolen while cargo was loaded at Johannesburg International airport. The theft does not appear to be linked to previous cargo robberies at the airport.
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/ 10 January 2005
Sudanese leaders signed a peace deal on Sunday that, if implemented, will end Africa’s longest-running conflict and transform politics in a nation which has spent 40 of the last 50 years at war with itself. Turning the incredibly detailed agreement into reality, though, may prove more difficult than the eight years of talks required to draft it.
‘New dawn’ for Sudan
Darfur foes support temporary ceasefire
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/ 10 January 2005
United Kingdom banking group Barclays confirmed on Monday that it was still awaiting regulatory approval to acquire a controlling stake in South Africa’s biggest retail bank, Absa. Regulatory approval is only expected to be forthcoming later this month or even next month due to the December holiday break.
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/ 10 January 2005
The global effort to bring relief to countries devastated by the tsunami is under threat from the re-emergence of insurgencies in both Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Indonesia’s army stepped up security on Sunday in Aceh following gunfire at the weekend in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, close to the United Nations’s main compound.
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/ 10 January 2005
Hundreds of people have been left homeless after a fire destroyed at least 100 shacks in the Kaya Mandi informal settlement near Stellenbosch on Sunday, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Monday. The blaze started when a paraffin stove toppled over in the evening. The fire was fanned by the strong wind and it took firefighters about three hours to bring it under control.
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/ 10 January 2005
South African supermarket chain Shoprite’s turnover has improved by 14,1% to R15,2-billion for the six months to January 2 2005, comprising 27 weeks, compared with the corresponding six months or 26 weeks in 2003, the group said on Monday. If the additional week of the current reporting period is disregarded, turnover growth was 10,3%.
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/ 10 January 2005
United States fans voted Fahrenheit 911 their favourite move of 2004 in
the 31st Annual People’s Choice Awards, picking politics over the animation and fantasy flicks also nominated. Accepting the award at a glittering ceremony near Los Angeles on Sunday, the winning film’s controversial director Michael Moore dedicated it to United States parents who have children serving in Iraq.
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/ 10 January 2005
Amani Karume, President of Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island state of Zanzibar, on Sunday inaugurated the isle’s new flag nearly four decades after it entered into union with the mainland state. The inauguration ceremony was marked by a 21-gun salute and singing of the island’s national anthem. The flag, a symbol of national unity in the island, is made up of green, gold, blue and black colours.
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/ 10 January 2005
When Hollywood’s most glamorous couple announced their separation over the weekend, they appealed to the media for ”kindness and sensitivity” in the coming months. The request seemed hopelessly optimistic. He was, after all, voted sexiest man alive and she starred in Friends, the United States’s best-loved sitcom of the past decade.
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The Mugrabi family, who have paid dearly for the Palestinian uprising, reflected the divisions in Palestinian society over Sunday’s presidential election. Mohammed, the only one of five sons neither dead nor in jail, voted: his father, Yusuf, refused to take part.