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/ 25 February 2005
Ninety youths have been arrested in Giyani and one boy is dead after 39 houses were torched in what appeared to be a witch-hunt, Limpopo police said. ”The 39 houses were burnt to ashes,” said Superintendent Moatshe Ngoepe. ”Those people lost everything — food, blankets, their children’s school uniforms and school books — everything,” he said.
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/ 25 February 2005
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has warned their rivals not to underestimate the reigning champions. ”No one has fallen asleep over these past months,” Montezemolo said on Friday when the world champions launched what they said is their best car to date, but which will not be raced for the first four grands prix of 2005.
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/ 25 February 2005
Mat Rogers inspired New South Wales to a 25-7 win over Waikato, and Auckland opened the 2005 Super 12 series on Friday with a dominating 30-14 win over the Otago Highlanders in Dunedin. Waratahs fullback Rogers, one of Australia’s best attackers, missed most of the previous Super 12 rugby season with an injured ankle.
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/ 25 February 2005
Zimbabwe’s former captain Heath Streak has signed a contract to rejoin the country’s cricket squad following his axing last year over a row about racial bias in selection, Zimbabwe Cricket said on Friday. Streak is one of the most senior players to return to boost the Southern African nation’s flagging fortunes.
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/ 25 February 2005
A retrial for Dr Wouter Basson could begin within three months from permission being granted, the Constitutional Court heard in Johannesburg on Friday. ”The state believes it will be in a position to commence the trial three months after being given the green light to do so by this court,” Wim Trengove, SC, submitted for the state.
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/ 25 February 2005
A 34-year-old Sebokeng handyman was sentenced to 207 years’ imprisonment on Friday for raping 14 women and attempting to rape another, Free State police said. Lekgaba Molamu used to travel to the Zamdela area of Sasolburg in the Free State where he befriended women between the ages of 14 and 21 under the pretext of offering them jobs.
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It will come as no surprise that Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has targeted car allowances in this Budget. After numerous hints last year from the minister and South African Revenue Service Commissioner Pravin Gordhan, Manuel has taken action to reduce the abuse of car travel allowance.
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/ 25 February 2005
A United Nations team vowed on Friday to be impartial in probing in Lebanon the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, as Lebanon waited for powerful neighbour Syria to begin a promised troop redeployment. Damascus is under international pressure and from Lebanon’s opposition to withdraw from its smaller neighbour.
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/ 25 February 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has paid special tribute to African National Congress stalwart Raymond Mhlaba, who died at the age of 85 last Sunday, calling him one of South Africa’s foremost leaders and ”midwife of our democracy”. Mbeki devoted his weekly column on Friday in the ANC’s online publication, ANC Today, to Mhlaba’s memory.
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/ 25 February 2005
A piece of equipment from a weather balloon caused a stir at the Springs Old Age home when it was mistaken for a bomb on Thursday afternoon, police said. Occupants at the home became suspicious when they heard a ticking noise from a parcel that ended up in the parking lot at about 2.30pm, Superintendent Andy Pieke said.