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MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Ray is a likely contender for an Oscar this year — firstly, because the Academy can never resist a portrayal of a disabled person, and also because it adores a tale of truimph over adversity. And a worthy contender it is, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 11 February 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has accepted Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson’s request to retire from the Bench. Delivering his State of the Nation address to a joint sitting of Parliament on Friday — attended by Chaskalson — Mbeki paid tribute to the Chief Justice, calling him a giant among South Africans.
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/ 11 February 2005
Hundreds of rioting convicts in the city of Cordoba are holding a prison warden and 75 people hostage, threatening to throw some of them off the roof, while two inmates and a police officer were killed in a jail-break attempt, officials said early on Friday. Armed inmates atop the prison roof threatened to throw some prison guards to the pavement below.
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/ 11 February 2005
More than 400 people are still missing in a remote area of south-western Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, a provincial official said on Friday. At least 35 people have been confirmed dead, and more than 1Â 200 villagers have been pulled alive from the waters.
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/ 11 February 2005
The United Nations Security Council has started working on a resolution to establish a peacekeeping operation in Sudan to support the peace process, said the Council’s President, Ambassador Joel Adechi of Benin. The council discussed the implementation of the Sudanese peace agreement and a number of issues related to the western Sudanese region of Darfur.
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/ 11 February 2005
A large cache of weapons and ammunition was found by the police’s national intervention unit in Mqanduli, Transkei on Thursday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Sipho Sizani said the bust followed information about a 34-year-old ex-soldier, who was training people to use firearms.
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President Robert Mugabe’s government has earmarked 12-billion Zimbabwe dollars to buy food aid for needy Zimbabweans who are going to the polls next month, the state-run daily The Herald said on Friday. About 1,5-million Zimbabweans are in need of food aid ahead of the next main harvest due in April.
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The Competition Commission recommended conditional approval on Friday of the merger between mining groups Harmony and Gold Fields. Due to the hostile nature of the proposed takeover, the commission found it difficult to assess the effect of a merger on jobs, and therefore attached the retrenchment conditions to its approval.
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The Pretoria High Court dismissed an appeal on Friday by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman against their fraud convictions. Moolman sought leave to approach the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to challenge his 58 fraud convictions and four-year prison sentence, and Madikizela-Mandela wanted to appeal her suspended sentence on 43 counts.
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Peace is possible in Colombia despite its four decades of civil war, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Thursday, pointing to harmony achieved in South Africa after decades of racial strife under apartheid. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate gave the optimistic outlook during a speech at a peace symposium in the south-western city of Cali.