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/ 26 November 2005
Fixed-line telecommunications company Telkom has a lot of catching up to do with mobile telephone services, according to market-research company Synovate’s latest findings. Telkom showed the most marked decline in customer-satisfaction ratings, said spokesperson Jon Salters.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa trounced India by 10 wickets on Friday in their fourth limited-overs international in Kolkota on Friday. Proteas captain Graeme Smith led the charge with a smashing 134 not out at the jam-packed Eden Gardens. South Africa now leads 2-1 in the five-match series with the final match to be played Monday.
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/ 25 November 2005
A group of Zimbabwe national team cricketers who met after the resignation of captain Tatenda Taibu are to consider their own positions over the weekend. They are scheduled to meet again on Monday after making up their own minds whether to stay with the Zimbabwe team or seek new careers — inside or outside the game.
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/ 25 November 2005
The United States ran a detention centre in Kosovo that resembled ”a smaller version of Guantánamo”, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner charged on Friday in an interview with France’s Le Monde newspaper. Alvaro Gil-Robles said he had inspected the centre in 2002 and he conditions there ”shocked” him.
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/ 25 November 2005
Residents of Merafong who want their municipality to remain a part of Gauteng shouted down speakers who wanted incorporation into the North West province at a public hearing in Carletonville on Friday, convened to hear views on a demarcation crisis in the area.
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/ 25 November 2005
Actor Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73. Morita died on Thursday at his home in Las Vegas of natural causes, said his wife of 12 years, Evelyn.
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/ 25 November 2005
An urgent application by arms maker Denel seeking relief from paying a guarantee of R25-million to the State Bank of India was struck off the roll by the Johannesburg High Court, media reports said on Friday. The guarantee is part of a multimillion-rand arms deal between Denel and the Indian government.
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/ 25 November 2005
Daylight saving time (DST) is a reality in more than 70 countries worldwide — but not in South Africa. Budget airline kulula.com, which started its ”Fight for Light” DST campaign on September 1 this year, now claims President Thabo Mbeki has asked one of his ministers to investigate whether South Africa can adopt DST.
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/ 25 November 2005
New Bafana Bafana interim coach Ted Dumitru is a rather confident man, but he failed to put his head on the block on Friday about his team’s chances of winning the African Cup of Nations. Dumitru will commence his duties from December 1 and his contract with the South African Football Association will run until the end of February.
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/ 25 November 2005
Shaun Pollock and Andrew Hall grabbed three wickets each to help South Africa bowl out India for 188 in the fourth one-dayer at the jam-packed Eden Gardens in Kolkota on Friday. Pollock struck thrice in his first four overs as India, sent in to bat on a seamer-friendly wicket, collapsed to 23-3 and later 71-5.