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/ 17 September 2005
After protracted argument in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday, Judge Mohamed Jajbhay ruled in favour of Kaizer Chiefs and postponed their Premier Soccer League game against Mamelodi Sundowns, which was due to be played at FNB Stadium on Sunday behind locked doors.
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/ 17 September 2005
A firefighter was injured in a blaze that gutted the head office of Caxton Publishing in Craighall, Johannesburg, on Thursday night. The two-storey building was completely destroyed in the blaze, said Johannesburg Fire and Emergency Management Services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley. ”It’s a major fire in terms of the structural damage,” he said.
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/ 17 September 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan joined three African leaders on Friday to welcome a -million commitment by six United States-based foundations to support universities in seven countries, calling it a concrete example of the needs being discussed by world leaders at the UN World Summit in New York.
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/ 17 September 2005
World leaders ended a three-day United Nations summit on Friday by endorsing a watered-down document on UN reform that fell short of their robust calls for increased efforts to combat terrorism and poverty. The summit had brought together more than 170 leaders in New York.
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/ 17 September 2005
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his conservative challenger, Angela Merkel, launch into the final day of the German election campaign on Saturday championing rival visions for the future of Europe’s biggest economy. Polls show Merkel is well on her way to becoming Germany’s first woman chancellor.
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/ 16 September 2005
On Tuesday night, at his home in Hermanus, Chief Rabbi Emeritus Cyril Harris died of cancer of the oesophagus, just six days short of his 69th birthday. Glasgow-born Harris, for 17 years South Africa’s chief rabbi, was, in many ways, a paradox.
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/ 16 September 2005
Extra-parliamentary groups in Zimbabwe have signalled their intention to "fight the expropriation of the Constitution" by the ruling Zanu-PF. In a move seen as showing disillusionment with party politics in the country, more than 500 delegates from 50 civic groups will converge on Harare this weekend under the banner "Deciding Zimbabwe’s Destiny".
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/ 16 September 2005
BMW have signed Nick Heidfeld to drive for their new formula-one team on a three-year contract beginning next year. The 28-year-old German currently races for Williams, who part company with BMW at the end of this season. The German manufacturer has bought the Sauber team, and Heidfeld is the new outfit’s first driver signing.
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/ 16 September 2005
Striking staff of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) will be asked to consider new proposals that emerged from the latest round of pay talks, the staff association’s secretary general said on Friday. ”We will also get feedback from national leadership,” said Lekau Dibakwane.
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/ 16 September 2005
A Pretoria High Court judge on Friday told a self-confessed male prostitute and killer that it is up to him to rehabilitate himself, before jailing him for 14 years.
Acting Judge Kobus van Rooyen sentenced Charles Peter Barker to direct imprisonment for the 2004 murder and robbery of high-school opera teacher Allen Sim.