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/ 20 February 2005
If you didn’t take a Sho’t Left last year, the good news is there’s a chance for redemption with the launch last week of South African Tourism’s new R20-million campaign, Sho’t Left 2. Billed as bigger and better, the campaign aims to encourage an emerging market of more than six million South Africans to holiday in Msanzi more often by promoting affordable packages and organised tours.
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/ 20 February 2005
It is noon in Cullinan, near Pretoria, and the Whispering Oaks restaurant is bustling in preparation for the arrival of a bus-load of international tourists. Cullinan locals like to boast that the famous Big Hole is smaller than the 100-year-old crater of its Premier Diamond Mine. Cullinan’s appeal lies in the glitter of its multi-faceted past.
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/ 19 February 2005
Diego Forlan is a rare breed. The striker, signed in January 2002 amid much fanfare by Manchester United for £7,5-million from Independiente, who famously took 18 matches to score his first goal for the club, is making a success of his career after leaving Old Trafford. As Paul Ince, Andy Cole and others will tell you, that is not easy.
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/ 19 February 2005
An outgoing lawmaker and senior official in President Robert Mugabe’s party charged with spying for neighbouring South Africa has been freed by the High Court. Phillip Chiyangwa is alleged to have led a spy ring with five others, including Zanu-PF party security officials, diplomats, and a banker.
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/ 19 February 2005
It is the type of retirement package that even those leaders most wedded to their jobs might be seduced by. When outgoing Namibian President Sam Nujoma hands over power to his successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba, on March 21, he will continue receiving the same monthly salary as the new leader of the country.
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/ 19 February 2005
A rare form of plague has killed at least 61 people around a diamond mine in the remote wilds in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and authorities fear hundreds more who fled into the forests to escape the contagion are infected and dying, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
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/ 19 February 2005
The first evidence of human-produced global warming in the oceans has been found, thanks to computer analysis of seven million temperature readings taken over 40 years to depths of 700m. Tim Barnett, of the Scripps Institution in San Diego, said he was ”stunned” by the findings.
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/ 19 February 2005
Three prominent Zimbabwean journalists who wrote for the international press have left the country after several days of police questioning and threats of prosecution. The action against the journalists comes only six weeks before the March 31 parliamentary poll.
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/ 19 February 2005
Suicide bombers turned the eve of a Shia holy day into a bloodbath on Friday when they infiltrated mosques in Baghdad and detonated explosives, killing and maiming dozens of people. Explosions at three mosques, a religious procession and an army checkpoint targeted Shias on the eve of their holiest day in an apparent attempt by insurgents to provoke a sectarian backlash.
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/ 19 February 2005
A travel agent facing fraud and theft charges in the parliamentary travel scam was released on R100Â 000 bail in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Soraya Beukes, former owner of the travel agency Business and Executive Travel, was granted bail last year, but it was withdrawn after an allegation that she had misled the court.