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/ 17 November 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and a leading United States IT expert, Nicholas Negroponte, on Wednesday at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) unveiled the bright green and yellow working prototype of a laptop aimed at millions of schoolchildren in poor countries.
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/ 16 November 2005
Police blocked roads leading to court on Wednesday as crowds gathered ahead of a bail hearing for a top opposition leader charged with treason. A day earlier, at least one person was shot dead in rioting by Kizza Besigye supporters protesting his prosecution on charges of treason as well as concealment of treason and rape.
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/ 16 November 2005
Lamontville Golden Arrows collected maximum points when they beat Ajax Cape Town 2-0 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at King Zwelithini Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. Also, Moroka Swallows beat Jomo Cosmos 2-0 in a fast and entertaining Premier Soccer League game played at the Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto.
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/ 16 November 2005
Teachers spend an average of 3,2 hours a day in front of classes, with the rest of their time taken up by administrative duties and assessments, according to a Human Sciences Research Council report released on Wednesday. ”An average of 16 hours per week is spent teaching — or 3,2 hours a day,” the report says.
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/ 16 November 2005
A power failure that blacked out large areas of Cape Town on Wednesday left MPs attending a National Assembly debate in the dark when Parliament’s back-up generators failed to kick in. Areas affected by the cut included the Cape Town city centre and the towns of Caledon, Hermanus, Kleinmond, Bredasdorp and Cape Agulhas.
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/ 16 November 2005
Former Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter officially vacated his job a poorer man after a four-hour meeting with the South African Football Association (Safa) management committee on Wednesday at the FNB Stadium. Baxter tendered his letter of resignation to Safa CEO Raymond Hack on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 16 November 2005
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is not commenting on its efforts to seize R30-million of the assets of Schabir Shaik now that he has been granted leave to appeal his corruption conviction and sentence. Meanwhile, an application for the return of items seized during raids on premises linked to Jacob Zuma is likely to be heard in court next month.
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/ 16 November 2005
A commission of inquiry should be set up to assess the state of rail transport in Gauteng, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party said on Wednesday. They said such a commission should come up with proposals for overhauling the entire rail system.
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/ 16 November 2005
United States President George Bush arrived on Wednesday in South Korea ahead of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders as a joint statement from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum sought to pressure the European Union into making more concessions on agricultural subsidies.