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/ 9 September 2005
Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla has terminated the contract of the provincial director general advocate Stanley Soko, who has been implicated in a bribery scandal involving a multimillion-rand tender. Lebona Mosia, the provincial government spokesperson, confirmed this week that Makwetla would not renew Soko’s contract when it expires.
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/ 9 September 2005
”Emergency assembly in the control tower!” snapped the manager of Bhisho International airport into the microphone. ”This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not …” He paused, listening. The wind hissed softly across the great concrete steppes of the runway. He sighed, and trudged to the open window of the control tower.
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/ 9 September 2005
A resourceful Breton dairy farmer has come up with a new invention: milk beer. ”Everyone thought I was crazy to try to make a milk-based alcohol,” Marcel Besnard said on Friday in Rennes, adding that low prices and strict quotas had led him to consider other ways of marketing milk.
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/ 9 September 2005
Police have started the process of identifying 40 bodies found rotting at a funeral parlour at Umlazi, near Durban, a spokesperson said on Friday. Director Bala Naidoo said a task team has been appointed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the bodies.
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/ 9 September 2005
Three elderly people will appear in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges relating to the distribution of child pornography, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Superintendent Phindile Radebe said the three — a couple and their relative — together with another man were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday after an extensive six month investigation.
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Both the African National Congress Youth League and the South African Communist Party on Friday asked whether former deputy president Jacob Zuma will have a fair trial, after the Johannesburg High Court granted an urgent application to a former attorney of Zuma’s in connection with a Scorpions’ raid on her house and office.
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/ 9 September 2005
The Cape High Court on Friday set aside the Independent Democrats’ expulsion of its deputy leader Themba Sono, paving the way for him to cross the floor to another party. The ID terminated Sono’s membership in August, saying he had not paid a R10 membership fee and that he ceased to be an ID member when he joined another political party.
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International Cycling Union (UCI) chief Hein Verbruggen said on Friday no action would be taken against Lance Armstrong following the recent allegations of doping against the American cyclist. Armstrong, who retired after his seventh consecutive Tour de France victory in July, had been accused of using banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) by French sports daily L’Equipe.
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/ 9 September 2005
New Orleans police were on Friday preparing to begin the first forcible removals of the estimated 10 000 residents still refusing to leave the city. A final sweep for voluntary refugees was under way on Thursday night, but some locals were already being taken away by force.
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/ 9 September 2005
A man fired for insubordination and intimidation shot his manager and then himself in a cargo section of Johannesburg International airport on Friday, police said. After a disciplinary hearing, the man produced a firearm and shot his manager, a 57-year-old man, in the head and chest.