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/ 12 September 2005
High-ranking Free State African National Congress politicians, including Premier Beatrice Marshoff, recently told embattled officials of the Matjhabeng municipality in the northern Free State to ”pull up their socks”. The municipality, has been plagued by financial mismanagement and corruption since it was established three years ago.
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/ 12 September 2005
Iraqi and and United States troops seized control of an insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq on Sunday after militants fled leaving dozens dead and hundreds wounded. Infantry backed by aircraft and tanks encountered little resistance when they entered the city of Tal Afar after a two-day offensive, although troops found entire districts had been abandoned by the civilian population in advance.
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/ 12 September 2005
Robert Mugabe has indicated for the first time that he will retire as president of Zimbabwe in 2008, when his current term expires. He will be 84 and ”will want some rest”, he told Britain’s Five News, but said he will remain active in his ruling party, Zanu-PF, which will choose his successor.
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/ 12 September 2005
Subaru has a reputation for building quick cars that are fun to drive, while looking very ordinary. All of their offerings are fitted with horizontally opposed four or six-cylinder engines to provide a low centre of gravity, and all deliver power to all four wheels. Until a year or two back the cars were somewhat marred by relatively low luxury specifications.
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/ 12 September 2005
The communist heirs of Mao Zedong and the capitalist successors of Walt Disney will share the stage in Hong Kong today with a near ,8-billion monument to globalisation: China’s first Disneyland. The meeting of the world’s biggest communist party and the planet’s best-known entertainment corporation would have been unthinkable to their founders.
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/ 12 September 2005
Oil prices were steady in Asian trade on Monday as the market braced for an expected decline in United States petroleum stocks when the Department of Energy releases its weekly report this week, dealers said. "People are positioning ahead of the US [petroleum] report and they are expecting a big drop, I suspect," said commodities analyst Mark Pervan.
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/ 12 September 2005
The Israeli military lowered the national flag over its headquarters in the Gaza Strip for the last time on Sunday as the government declared an end to 38 years of military occupation and Israel handed over demolished Jewish settlements to the Palestinians.
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/ 12 September 2005
The National Development Agency (NDA) chief financial officer Pule Zwane has quit the organisation after the agency spent more than R1-million investigating him and paying him for sitting at home for two years. Zwane was suspended in October 2003 along with CEO Delani Mthembu for alleged corruption and mismanagement.
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/ 12 September 2005
Publisher of the <i>Daily Sun</i> Deon du Plessis is to launch a new South African daily newspaper on Monday, September 19th. To be called <i>Nova</i>, the paper will appear in a “compact” shape — the first of its kind in the country — and target Gauteng’s “young and aspiring professionals” between the ages of 25 and 40.
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/ 12 September 2005
At the dusk of a century and the twilight of his life in 1998, Tanzania’s former leader Julius Nyerere met with top-level staff at the World Bank in Washington, DC. "Why have you failed?" the World Bank experts asked. Nyerere answered: "The British empire left us a country with 85% illiteracy, two engineers and 12 doctors."