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/ 22 January 2004
Roger Federer says his breakthrough Wimbledon triumph last year has made him hungry for more Grand Slam titles and he wants to realise that at the Australian Open. The Swiss world number two had few concerns in reaching the third round in a straight sets victory over United States qualifier Jeff Morrison on Thursday.
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/ 22 January 2004
Australian prosecutors filed manslaughter charges on Thursday against a pub bouncer, Zdravco Micevic (21), who allegedly landed the fatal punch that killed cricketing legend David Hookes. Micevic, a former champion amateur boxer, has been receiving death threats since Hookes’s death on Monday.
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/ 22 January 2004
The Mail & Guardian has tended to dismiss the Hefer Commission of Inquiry into the spy allegations against National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka as a sideshow. For us the real issue was whether Deputy President Jacob Zuma, his financial adviser Schabir Shaik and former transport minister Mac Maharaj are guilty of corruption.
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/ 21 January 2004
Former transport minister Mac Maharaj and ex-African National Congress intelligence operative Mo Shaik have welcomed the release and content of the Hefer Commission of Inquiry’s report regarding allegations that national prosecutions head Bulelani Ngcuka might have been an apartheid spy.
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/ 21 January 2004
A first-ever summit of African defence ministers cleared the way in Addis Ababa on Wednesday for an African peacekeeping force to prevent conflicts and help deliver aid to war-ravaged countries. African leaders will give final approval for the force at an African Union summit in Libya next month.
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/ 21 January 2004
Black professionals are leaving the country to compete with the overseas qualifications of many returned exiles, a recruitment company said on Wednesday. There is a perception that ”employers give preference to people with international experience”, said Brian Khumalo, a recruitment executive.
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/ 21 January 2004
Chronic unemployment and the fact that less than 25% of last year’s matric class will find employment in the formal sector are reasons why 50Â 000 school leavers are expected to try to falsify their matric certificates. Employers who fall for the ”modified” certificates have little recourse.
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/ 21 January 2004
Zimbabwean police on Wednesday complied with a court order and finally left the printing works of independent newspaper the <i>Daily News</i> for the first time since it was shut down in September, said the newspaper’s legal adviser, Gugulethu Moyo. "We hope to get a paper on the streets tomorrow," said Moyo.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=29943">Cops must stop dogging Daily News</a>
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/ 21 January 2004
Nigeria’s top labour leader, Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday announced the suspension of a 12-hour-old nationwide general strike over fuel tax after a meeting with senior union officials. Hundreds of thousands of Nigerian workers stayed at home on Wednesday despite a court order banning the planned protest.
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/ 21 January 2004
South African telecommunications, multimedia and IT group company Altech and the Econet Wireless Group, an international company with global telecommunications interests, are to join forces to establish a new South African-based telecommunications company valued at approximately R1-billion.