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/ 24 January 2007
South Africa is facing a severe shortage of networking skills, amounting to an estimated shortage of 70 500 last year and swelling to 113 900 skilled people by 2009, an IT company director said on Wednesday. Peter Denny, a director of black-empowered IT training company IT Intellect, said a survey has pointed out some "alarming shortages in the networking field".
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/ 24 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s state-run electricity provider is battling a serious financial crunch and a widening supply shortfall which has let to increasing power cuts. The acting chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electicity Supply Authority Christopher Chetsanga said the utility had run up a Z-billion debt which he blamed on low tariffs.
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/ 24 January 2007
A British government committee criticised the spiraling costs of the London 2012 Olympics and called for greater transparency from organisers on finances to ensure continued public support. While accepting costs would rise, the report released on Wednesday said it was ”vital that public confidence” was maintained.
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/ 24 January 2007
Kim Clijsters had another quarterfinal win over Martina Hingis despite a rash of unforced errors, and moved into the Australian Open semifinals against top-seeded Maria Sharapova. Fourth-seeded Clijsters won 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Wednesday, breaking Hingis’ serve in the last game and ending the match with a forehand passing shot.
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/ 24 January 2007
Tsotsi star Presley Chweneyagae faces a charge of fraud after he was arrested for driving with an allegedly fake driver’s licence, Beeld reported on Wednesday. Chweneyagae (22) was arrested in Pretoria on Tuesday and released on bail of R2 000.
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/ 24 January 2007
The two South Africans accused of having links to terror group al-Qaeda will release a statement on Wednesday, their lawyer said on Tuesday night. This follows an evening meeting between the two and lawyer Shaheed Dollie. ”We want to do this instead of causing a media frenzy,” said Dollie.
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/ 24 January 2007
South Africa said on Wednesday it had asked the United Nations to delay placing two South Africans on its list of suspects linked to al-Qaeda. Foreign ministry spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said the request amounted to an objection by the South African government.
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/ 24 January 2007
Food-aid programmes need to be overhauled to strengthen the long-term campaign against world hunger, the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday. Emergency aid has saved millions of lives, but such help provided over longer periods might destabilise markets, the UN said in a report.
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/ 24 January 2007
Activists outraged by the impending hanging of a 21-year-old Nigerian man for drug trafficking planned a hunger strike in protest against the execution, they said on Wednesday. Chee Siok Chin and lawyer M Ravi, both Singaporeans, said their demonstration will start at 7am on Thursday at the city-state’s Speakers’ Corner.
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/ 24 January 2007
A deputy director with the Scorpions at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in Pretoria was fined R8Â 000 for driving under the influence of alcohol, media reports said on Wednesday. David Damerell (48) entered into a plea and sentence agreement with the state at the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court on Tuesday.