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/ 24 October 2006
South Africa swept the boards at the eighth World Masters Squash Championships in Cape Town when the South African players won five gold, five silver and 12 bronze medals. England finished second with six gold, six silver and six bronze while Australia’s tally was five gold, two silver and two bronze.
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/ 24 October 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s disciplinary process against SAfm journalist John Perlman should be called off immediately, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday. Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said Perlman should be praised rather than disciplined.
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/ 24 October 2006
Rwanda on Tuesday opened public hearings into an alleged French role in the 1994 genocide that left at least 800Â 000 people dead in the Central African nation. A former senior Rwandan official testified that Paris had indeed supported the perpetrators of the genocide in order to protect a French-speaking nation from rebels backed by an English-speaking country.
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/ 24 October 2006
The wage strike at leisure and hotels group Sun International entered its fourth week on Monday amid calls by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to boycott the group. On Tuesday, Cosatu said that it was urging South African music promoters to dump Sun International’s Carnival City as a venue for music concerts on October 29 and 31.
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/ 24 October 2006
Given the current legislative environment that negatively impacts on the Pension Funds Adjudicator’s ability to carry out his duties, combined with chronic under-funding, current incumbent Vuyani Ngalwana will not be renewing his contract, which expires in March.
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/ 24 October 2006
Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour has tabled in Parliament the full executive summary of the final Jali Commission of Inquiry into fraud and corruption in prisons. However, the names of allegedly corrupt officials are omitted.
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/ 24 October 2006
In a new satire on Britain’s royal family, they are banished to a rundown housing estate to eke out tawdry lives in a republican land that has spurned them. Best-selling author Sue Townsend, poking gentle fun at a dysfunctionally chaotic House of Windsor, has Queen Elizabeth and her rowdy brood living in exile in a specially fenced off exclusion zone for social misfits.
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/ 24 October 2006
Night of 1Â 000 Drawings, taking place in Johannesburg in November, is based on a concept first implemented in New York. It is a one-night-only exhibition for which anyone, famous or not so famous, can donate drawings. These will be sold to the public for R100 each, with proceeds going to an organisation taking care of the city’s homeless.
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/ 24 October 2006
South Africa’s information technology industry (IT) will need 115 000 professionals ahead of the World Cup in 2010 with Microsoft Certified System Engineers (MCSE) in critical short supply, local IT group said on Tuesday. IT Intellect’s Cape Town branch manager, Shaun Quin, said the mindset that the IT industry was flooded with MCSE’s was wrong as many of them had never been re-skilled on new software.
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/ 24 October 2006
Johannesburg’s public transport system received a boost on Tuesday when Daimler Chrysler handed 38 new buses to Metrobus. Daimler Chrysler president Wolfgang Biez said the buses would form part of the World-Class Public Transport Programme, which would play a vital role during the 2010 Soccer World Cup.