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/ 8 September 2005
South African Rugby’s MD has been ordered to go on leave following an allegation of sexual harassment against him, the Daily Dispatch reported on Thursday. SA Rugby deputy president Mike Stofile issued the order on Johan Prinsloo on Wednesday night.
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/ 7 September 2005
United States Senator Hillary Clinton fuelled the political debate over Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, insisting on an independent inquiry into the federal response and sharply rejecting President George Bush’s bid to lead the probe himself. ”I don’t think the government should be investigating itself,” Clinton said.
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/ 7 September 2005
Egyptians voted on Wednesday in the country’s first contested presidential election, with veteran leader Hosni Mubarak all but certain to head off all challengers amid reports of widespread irregularities. The electoral commission described turnout as ”remarkable”, but confusion marked Egypt’s democratic experiment.
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/ 7 September 2005
British-based aid agency Oxfam criticised rich countries on Thursday for failing to heed warnings of a Niger-like food crisis that could affect 10-million people in Southern Africa. ”Niger was forecast six months in advance, yet rich countries did almost nothing until the eleventh hour,” said Oxfam’s regional coordinator for Southern Africa.
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/ 7 September 2005
Police corruption can be nipped in the bud if the public stop offering officers bribes, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said on Wednesday, responding to a television exposé of police taking bribes to release illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the television footage is, on its own, ”insufficient” to secure the officers’ prosecution, Gauteng police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo said.
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/ 7 September 2005
Mittal Steel has welcomed an interdict issued by the Labour Court in Johannesburg preventing members of trade union Solidarity from striking. The dispute between Mittal Steel South Africa and Solidarity is over the union’s demand for more money for the working hours of 134 of its day-shift members.
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/ 7 September 2005
No one is quite sure when it happened. One day there was no Google. The next day there was, and everyone was using it. Somewhere between September 1998 and December of the same year, it crept into our consciousness and went from being a garage-based start-up to one of PC Magazine‘s top 100 websites of the year.
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/ 7 September 2005
It seems that even if police officers are shown on national television accepting bribes, they can keep their jobs. After the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Special Assignment showed officers accepting bribes from alleged illegal immigrants, the seven officers in question were still on the beat on Wednesday.