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/ 16 November 2004
South Africa salvaged a draw in their tour opener against the Indian Board President’s XI despite an embarrassing batting collapse on Tuesday that highlighted their potential flaws against spin bowling. South Africa had scored 226 for five declared in their first innings, and the hosts replied with 361 for six.
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/ 15 November 2004
The Free State High Court on Monday reserved judgement in an application by two senior officials to set aside a decision by Premier Beatrice Marshoff to redeploy them. Jerry Rakgoale, head of public works, roads and transport, and Makhosini Msibi, head of local government and housing, filed the urgent application.
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/ 15 November 2004
Colin Powell, a son of Jamaican immigrants, became a United States war hero who soldiered on as the chief US diplomat presenting the case for the Iraq invasion to a sceptical world community. Now the 65th Secretary of State has resigned from President George Bush’s administration.
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/ 15 November 2004
In the olden days, when life became complicated, you would probably have written a poem, ploughed a field or poisoned someone. But ever since the advent of the internet and MTV’s reality shows, watching someone else’s reality seems to have become the most common pastime. If the passive voyeurism of watching cops drive around Los Angeles suburbs wasn’t enough, computer gaming has given us even more interactive options.
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/ 15 November 2004
Uganda is ready to ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) to abandon its investigation in the war-ravaged north of the country if rebels there show a credible commitment to peace. The announcement came a day after President Yoweri Museveni declared a week-long halt to military operations against Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.
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/ 15 November 2004
Beavers found a bag of bills stolen from a casino, tore it open and wove the money into the sticks and brush of their dam on a creek near Baton Rouge. ”They hadn’t torn the bills up. They were still whole,” said Major Michael Martin of the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office.
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/ 15 November 2004
”Which country in South Africa?” asked the American, upon learning the home country of the visitor with the strange accent. ”Oh, yes,” he said, as a light of recognition flickered in his elderly eyes. ”Isn’t that the home base of that delightful Negro person who spent all those years in jail?”
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/ 15 November 2004
Nigerian police on Monday took over a popular bus station in the economic capital, Lagos, to forestall a repeat of last week’s clashes between commercial drivers and traffic officials that left two dead. Drivers clashed with officials of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency for several days last week over the control of the popular CMS bus station.