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/ 20 January 2005
"What one wants in the CEO of South Africa’s public broadcaster is easy to identify, but hard to find: a commitment to the belief that broadcasting can be a force to improve society…and a resolute political independence that puts the Constitution and Bill of Rights, rather than the government and the ruling party, at the centre of the frame".
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/ 20 January 2005
Andy Roddick won the battle of the power-servers with an impressive four-set victory over Greg Rusedski to book a place in the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday. The American second seed dismantled the British world number 48’s serve-volley game to move confidently into the next round.
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/ 20 January 2005
From Senzeleni Nxumalo — a prison warder who has been fired for participating in a Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union protest deemed unlawful — and Mark Thatcher’s wonga to a new broadcasting venture between Zimbabwe and Iran, Krisjan Lemmer talks the talk.
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/ 20 January 2005
The former Zimbabwean consul-general to South Africa, Godfrey Dzvairo, was the ringleader of a network of Zimbabwean spies that has been selling confidential Zanu-PF documents, including minutes of the party’s supreme organ — the Politburo — to the South African government.
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/ 19 January 2005
Scientists in Nigeria have discounted warnings that the West African coastline risks a tsunami but stress the need to plan for other extreme events. Yevgeny Dolginov, a professor of geological studies at the Russian University for People’s Friendship said that African countries including Cameroon, Gabon and Nigeria were at risk.
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/ 19 January 2005
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency on Wednesday inspected a nuclear reactor in northern Nigeria that officials said was designed for research on peaceful uses of atomic energy. Foreign analysts have expressed concern that Nigeria, a nation of more than 126-million people, is angling to become the world’s latest nuclear power.
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/ 19 January 2005
Two of South Africa’s most promising young cyclists were among the five men who died in a plane crash in the Free State on Tuesday, the manager of South Africa’s national cycling team said on Wednesday. Cyclists Jaco de Witt and Jaco Odendaal, along with three others, were on board an Aerostar light aircraft on their way to Harrismith.
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/ 19 January 2005
A San Bushman appealed to Botswana’s High Court on Wednesday to overturn an eviction order and allow him to live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, describing it as the land of his great grandparents. Matsipane Mosetlhanyane was testifying in a watershed land-claim case in Botswana.
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/ 19 January 2005
A Magaliesburg farmer was arrested on Wednesday after police found his greenhouse full of dagga plants guarded by a snake in a glass cage. West Rand police spokesperson Captain Paula Nothnagel said the 37-year-old farmer did not have a permit for his snake. Nothnagel said the dagga was farmed and dried in greenhouses on the farm.