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/ 10 September 2005
Michael Brown, the head of the Bush administration’s disaster relief effort, was relieved on Friday of his role coordinating the response to Hurricane Katrina, after allegations that he had embroidered his professional record and had no emergency management experience. Meanwhile, hopes are rising that Katrina’s human cost might not be as high as some local officials had first feared.
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/ 9 September 2005
The deputy leader of the Independent Democrats, Themba Sono, crossed the floor to a fledgling party just hours after the Cape High Court reversed his expulsion from the ID on Friday. The ID had feared that Sono would defect. ”I have joined the Alliance of Free Democrats,” said Sono in a media statement.
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/ 9 September 2005
The president of the South African Rugby Union, Brian van Rooyen, survived an eight-hour president’s council meeting on Friday, and remains at the helm of rugby in South Africa. Van Rooyen confirmed that the council agreed unanimously to accept the recommendations of the Brandt-Heunis report on the affairs of rugby.
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/ 9 September 2005
They are on the cusp of a dream final at the United States Open, but first Roger Federer must confirm his domination over Lleyton Hewitt and then Andre Agassi needs to put down the challenge of upstart Robby Ginepri. A Federer-Agassi final under the lights on Sunday would potentially be the tennis match of the year.
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/ 9 September 2005
The number of confirmed typhoid cases in Delmas, Mpumalanga, rose to 100 on Friday, but the situation is gradually being brought under control, health officials said. Up to 700 people are now suffering from diarrhoea, but proper management and precautions should see the outbreak in Delmas brought under control.
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/ 9 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, was in Washington on Friday lobbying members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board not to recommend the expulsion of Zimbabwe, state radio reported. Gono met eight members of the IMF board to make a case for Zimbabwe’s continued membership.
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The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) on Friday said it will appeal a Johannesburg High Court judgement that found that it unlawfully obtained and executed search warrants. Meanwhile, a magistrate is trying to force the state to act on criminal charges he instituted against former head of the NDPP Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 9 September 2005
The Express Air Services manager shot by a disgruntled employee at the Johannesburg International airport on Friday morning has died, Milpark hospital confirmed. The man was shot in the head and chest by a 27-year-old man who had been fired after a disciplinary hearing for insubordination and intimidation of a manager.
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/ 9 September 2005
If anyone in South Africa deserved the sobriquet ”Mr Softball”, it was Phillipus ”Phillip” Petrus Kahts, who died recently in Cape Town at the age of 62. The past 46 years of Kahts’s life were devoted to the game. Among other achievements, he successfully bid for the men’s fast-pitch Softball World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2000.
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/ 9 September 2005
Pre-race practice for the Belgian Grand Prix was wiped out on Friday when heavy rain limited running and caused havoc at the forested Ardennes circuit. Teams chose to stay in the garages for most of the day rather than venture out on track after blue skies and sunshine on Thursday turned to overcast clouds and rain overnight.