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/ 13 October 2004
Log leaders Orlando Pirates are planning to show Bloemfontein Celtic the stars during their Castle Premiership match at Ellis Park on Wednesday night. According to Pirates striker Gift Leremi, the youthful Free State side should brace themselves for one of their worst defeats since the start of the season.
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/ 12 October 2004
A 17-year-old high-school student from North Carolina in the United States faces a possible 30 days in jail after school resource officers arrested him for using foul language with a teacher. Ashley High School student Glenn Gattis said he used bad language after he got in trouble with the teacher for being late to class on August 25.
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/ 12 October 2004
Cameroon’s main opposition parties called on Tuesday for the Central African country’s presidential election — which veteran leader Paul Biya has been widely tipped to win — to be annulled, saying it was marred by rampant fraud. One opposition presidential candidate called the vote ”a masquerade, with overt fraud throughout the country”.
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/ 12 October 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has welcomed the election of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as Somalia’s transitional president and pledged that the world body will fully support efforts to restore stability in the war-torn Horn of Africa country. The election was held on Sunday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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/ 12 October 2004
The Noupoort Christian Care Centre (NCCC), the controversial drug rehabilitation facility, is to ask the High Court to review a decision by Director General of Social Development Vusi Madonsela to close it down. The NCCC’s attorney said the NCCC has been treated unfairly by the department and will oppose its closure ”all the way”.
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/ 12 October 2004
South Africa’s most famous township, Soweto, synonymous with the struggle against apartheid, kicked off centenary celebrations on Tuesday with a tree-planting ceremony symbolising a new era of freedom and growth. An African pine tree was planted as organisers geared up for weeks of celebrations to mark the founding of Soweto.
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/ 12 October 2004
A Soweto man was woken up from a nap on Tuesday by the sound of a bulldozer crashing through his house, Johannesburg emergency services said. The bulldozer had been carrying out roadworks in Doornkop, on the western border of Soweto, when the driver experienced brake failure, spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said.
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/ 12 October 2004
After months of fund-raising, Norwegian activists on Tuesday paid for United States newspaper advertisements telling President George Bush he was wrong to invade Iraq and should pull out his troops. The activists are bound largely by a website that uses Norway’s two-letter internet code "no" as part of its message: <i>Tellhim.no</i>.
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/ 12 October 2004
The judge in the Schabir Shaik corruption trial on Tuesday turned down an application by e.tv to televise proceedings, but left the door open for broadcast of the closing stages of the case. E.tv said it will study the judgement and consider whether to launch a Constitutional Court challenge.