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/ 17 October 2005
Trade union Solidarity on Monday welcomed recommendations by the Department of Minerals and Energy that fines be levied against DRDGold following a fatal earth tremor earlier this year. ”In addition, the responsible rock engineer, production manager, mine supervisor and shift boss must face prosecution,” the union said.
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/ 17 October 2005
Retired Vatican finance chief Cardinal Giuseppe Caprio has died, the Vatican said on Monday. He was 90. The Vatican said the Italian cardinal died on Saturday. Pope Benedict XVI on Monday praised his service in a condolence message, saying Caprio served five popes in ”delicate and important” offices.
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/ 17 October 2005
Three violent earthquakes shook western Turkey on Monday, cracking walls, collapsing chimneys and sending 30 people to hospital, including a man who reportedly threw himself from the fifth floor of a building in panic. Turkey’s top seismologist warned of the threat of more earthquakes.
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/ 17 October 2005
Tickets for Saturday’s Currie Cup final between the Blue Bulls and Cheetahs at the 50 000-seater Loftus Versfeld Stadium sold out in less than six hours on Monday. The frenzy for tickets saw people camp overnight outside the stadium to ensure they were not disappointed.
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/ 17 October 2005
Preliminary results released on Monday from Liberia’s vote last week maintained a lead for football hero George Weah but underscored the need for a run-off election for the presidency of the post-war elected government. With more than 90% of 3 070 polling stations reporting, Weah was in front with 28,9%.
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/ 17 October 2005
The international community has been called upon to assist the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in its peace-building initiatives, the office of Botswana President Festus Mogae said on Monday. The call was made by the Botswana/Zimbabwe Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security, Mogae said in a statement.
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/ 17 October 2005
Malawi’s Parliament on Monday opened debate on impeachment procedures, the first concrete step in moves to oust President Bingu wa Mutharika for allegedly violating the Constitution. ”The debate on impeachment procedures is really on,” said Vin Phiri, a spokesperson for Parliament.
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/ 17 October 2005
A rise in interest costs could cause increasing household debt to threaten the stability of South Africa’s financial system, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Monday. Household debt has been trending upward since the beginning of 2003, according to the central bank’s latest financial stability review.
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/ 17 October 2005
Three men appeared in the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with the kidnapping of 10-year-old Liam Aspeling last week, Gauteng police said. The boy was snatched from the front of his mother’s home in Ennerdale on Tuesday. He was reunited with his family on Wednesday.
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/ 17 October 2005
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe denounced United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as ”the two unholy men of our millennium” at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation anniversary meeting in Rome on Monday.