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/ 5 February 2004
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has condemned the government’s threat to fire doctors who take part in a protest march after the opening of Parliament on Friday. Holomisa said the government was displaying a complete disregard for the doctors’ democratic rights.
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/ 5 February 2004
While the search for three-year-old Karabo Gwala who fell into an open sewerage manhole in Soweto on Monday continues, preliminary investigations by the Department of Labour have established that the company conducting maintenance work before the accident violated health and safety regulations.
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/ 5 February 2004
TelkomInternet, a division of partially privatised South African telecommunications giant Telkom, has quarantined more than 500 000 virus-infected e-mail messages mostly infected with the MyDoom virus, the telecommunications company announced on Thursday.
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/ 5 February 2004
Two river ferries collided head-on in southern Bangladesh early on Thursday and survivors said at least 30 people drowned. About 150 people were missing after the accident in Meghna River in Barisal district, 120km south of national capital Dhaka, according to the survivors.
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/ 5 February 2004
”In the name of the African renaissance, trust, but not too much,” announces Irvin Khoza’s cellphone voicemail message. The message aptly describes the Orlando Pirates and Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairperson’s involvement in the game after his return from self-imposed football exile to take the helm of Pirates in 1989.
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/ 5 February 2004
Why would two highly respected men — one a professor of medicine, the other a government inspector — travel halfway round the world to dig up plants in a foreign country and risk spending three years in jail? The answer is that they were in the grip of ”orchidelirium”, an obsession with orchids.
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/ 5 February 2004
Heavy storms hit parts of Indonesia’s Java and Bali islands, killing at least four people and severely damaging hundreds of houses, news report said on Thursday. The severe storms triggered landslides when rivers in the crowded East and Central Java provinces overflowed their banks.
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/ 5 February 2004
A virile South African rand on Wednesday shrugged off the news that the government had repaid almost R5-billion in January as it repaid $750-million six months ahead of its scheduled redemption on July 30 2004. This followed the July 2003 redemption of $750-million, which had been the first early redemption of a foreign loan.
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/ 5 February 2004
Johannesburg International airport’s new, R44-million transfer corridor will be operational in early April, the Airports Company South Africa said on Thursday. The airport expects an increase of three million commuters within the near future from the current 13-million passengers a year.
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/ 5 February 2004
Strive Masiyiwa, the founder of one of Africa’s top communications operators, Econet, on Tuesday survived a bizarre attack by President Robert Mugabe’s government to try to shut down his profitable Zimbabwean operation on the grounds that it was ”subversive”.