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/ 15 February 2005
The Cabinet reshuffle by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in response to a recent outcry over corruption is ”completely unsatisfactory”, the countrys leading anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday. ”It makes a mockery of Kenyans concerns [over corruption],” said Gladwell Otieno, head of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International.
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/ 15 February 2005
Diversified mining group African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is confident that gold-miner Harmony Gold, in which it has a 16,2% stake, will take control of Gold Fields, ARM executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe — who is also chairperson of Harmony — said on Tuesday. ARM continues to support the bid as it has been presented, he added.
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/ 15 February 2005
Dagga and a knife were found hidden in a grade eight classroom at a Diepsloot school on Tuesday in a raid by more than 100 police officers using sniffer dogs. Four youths were also arrested, but not in class. They were caught smoking dagga at a shebeen about 500m from Itirele-Senzele High School, said a Pretoria police spokesperson.
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/ 15 February 2005
The local and international community should take action against Swaziland’s King Mswati III’s ”insensitive expenditure”, the Swaziland Solidarity Network said on Tuesday. This comes after the monarch spent R5-million on 10 BMWs for his wives and R6-million on a Chrysler Maybach for himself.
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/ 15 February 2005
The tender for Cape Town’s multibillion-rand N2 Gateway Project, involving the building of high-density, low cost housing units in informal settlements adjacent to the national road on the outskirts of the city, has been won by the Sobambisana Consortium.
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/ 15 February 2005
Iraq’s Arab Sunnis will do a U-turn and join the political process despite their lack of representation in the newly elected national assembly, Sunni leaders said on Monday. Many Sunnis protested that the election was flawed and unfair, but in the wake of Sunday’s results, their political parties want to lobby for a share of power.
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/ 15 February 2005
A committee has been appointed to investigate allegations of racism in the Cape High Court, Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson said on Monday. He said he had requested the committee to give urgent attention to the matter and report back to the heads of the court as soon as possible.
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/ 15 February 2005
Nearly 60 people perished and more than 200 others suffered burns on Monday when a fire swept through a Tehran mosque crammed with worshippers, police said. Media reports said the fire was probably caused by a heater, brought into the mosque to protect worshippers from the bitter cold.
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/ 15 February 2005
South African shipping group Grindrod has invested nearly R2-billion in a major expansion of its shipping fleet in recent weeks. The company bought a geared container ship of 605 twenty-foot equivalent units for $7-million and has ordered four new 12Â 800 deadweight ton (dwt) oil/chemical tankers.
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/ 15 February 2005
A Johannesburg high school will be searched for guns and drugs on Tuesday morning, metro police said. ”We have received numerous complaints from the principal [of Intereleng Secondary School in Diepsloot] that learners go to school with illegal firearms,” said metro police spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.