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/ 14 January 2005
As the new school year gets under way next week, Western Cape health authorities warned on Friday of a measles epidemic in Cape Town if children are not immunised against the highly infectious disease. A measles outbreak was detected in Cape Town’s Fish Hoek and Sun Valley, with Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal already experiencing epidemics.
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/ 14 January 2005
The people of Africa are making it clear that they are no longer willing to be robbed of their right to peace, democracy and development, writes President Thabo Mbeki in his weekly letter. Meanwhile, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon wrote in his letter on Friday that the Middle East seems a more hopeful place than when he last visited in 2002.
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/ 14 January 2005
The West Indies wilted in the face of intense pressure from world champions Australia, collapsing 116 runs short of victory in their opening Tri-series one-day cricket international in Melbourne on Friday. After being dismissed off just 46,2 overs, the tourists mustered a paltry 185 runs in reply to Australia’s 301 for four.
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/ 14 January 2005
Nearly three weeks after the disaster, even the most persistent are giving up their search for the thousands of people who disappeared during the Boxing Day tsunami, especially in hard-hit countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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/ 14 January 2005
Mamelodi Sundowns hope to register their first win under new coach Angel Cappa against Ajax Cape Town at Loftus Stadium on Saturday night, despite being without two trusted players. ”We have a big pool of players who will do the job for us on Saturday. Ajax are in serious trouble,” warned marketing and communications manager Alax Shakoane.
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/ 14 January 2005
The Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell has ended the latest crisis to disrupt oil production in Nigeria’s unruly Niger Delta, the firm said on Friday, reopening facilities closed down by community protests. At the height of the crisis, 114 000 barrels per day of Shell’s production were shut in.
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/ 14 January 2005
Police in southern France on Friday reported the first suicide from the Millau viaduct, the world’s tallest bridge, after finding the body of a man at the base of one of its seven pillars. The man, who was not immediately identified, apparently abandoned his car on the bridge before climbing over the side rail and jumping to his death.
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/ 14 January 2005
An enormous white zeppelin described as the world’s largest successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday in Japan. The German-made, 75m-long airship wafted into blue skies above the western port city of Kobe on Friday morning for half an hour before embarking on a five-hour flight to Nagoya in central Japan.
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/ 14 January 2005
The director and two curators of the South African National Museum of Military History were arrested on Thursday night for stockpiling working weapons and military vehicles, the museum said. ”Police … have accused us of stockpiling weapons as if we were preparing for a war,” said acting museum director Sandy Mckenzie.
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/ 14 January 2005
Any staff found to have been involved in cheating in last year’s Mpumalanga matric examinations will be punished appropriately, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Friday. ”Minister Pandor is committed to ensuring that where criminal conduct and fraud is committed, the full might of the law is applied,” her ministry said.