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/ 30 December 2004
This year has been the annus horribilis for Zimbabwe’s financial sector which has suffered its worst crisis that left thousands without access to their salaries and savings in banks forcibly closed by authorities.
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/ 30 December 2004
Examination controlling body Umalusi has agreed to speed up its probe into claims of widespread fraud committed by Mpumalanga matriculants in a bid to hasten the release of pupils’ results, the provincial education department said on Wednesday.
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/ 30 December 2004
About 30 000 to 50 000 people in Somalia are ”in need of immediate relief assistance” after the country was hit by a tsunami wave at the weekend, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. The UN estimates that at least 114 people were killed in Somalia when the tsunami wave struck its coastline.
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/ 30 December 2004
A team of 10 relief workers will leave South Africa for Sumatra this week to help with aid work after the weekend tsunami claimed more than 80 000 lives along the Indian Ocean shorelines. NGO Global Relief says Indonesia has accepted their offer of assistance. The team planned to depart on Friday.
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/ 30 December 2004
As many as 80 000 people may have died in the Indonesian province of Aceh alone. The Red Cross warned the global death toll could reach as high as 100 000. Meanwhile, South African Tsunami survivors sobbed and broke down on Wednesday when they met their families at Johannesburg International airport after arriving on a mercy flight.
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/ 30 December 2004
A brave partnership of 85 for the eighth wicket between Shaun Pollock and AB de Villiers helped South Africa to stave off defeat by England, and South Africa was finally saved by bad light on the fifth day of the second Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test at Kingsmead on Thursday.
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/ 30 December 2004
South African opening batter Herschelle Gibbs was fined 40% of his match fee on Wednesday for ”deliberately attempting to mislead the umpire” on the fourth day of the second Test against England at Kingsmead. Gibbs was reported to match referee Clive Lloyd by umpire Darrell Hair. He pleaded guilty to the charge.
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/ 30 December 2004
Graham Thorpe shared in two century partnerships to reach his 16th century and bat South Africa out of contention on the fourth day of the second Test at Kingsmead on Wednesday. At close of play, South Africa, chasing a target of 378 to win, had 21 for one, after England declared their second innings on 570 for seven.
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/ 29 December 2004
Tsunami survivors sobbed and broke down when they met their families at Johannesburg International airport on Wednesday after arriving on a mercy flight from Phuket, Thailand — and praised two young South Africans who coordinated the rescue effort. Meanwhile, the number of people killed in Sunday’s earthquake and tsunamis neared 81Â 000.
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/ 29 December 2004
Flights packed with ready-made meals, medicines and doctors were on Wednesday arriving in countries ravaged by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean which has left almost 70 000 people, half of them children, dead.