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/ 28 January 2005
The burgeoning cheese industry in South Africa, which has been around for more than 100 years, is set to benefit when the first plug of formerly disadvantaged cheesemakers goes to France to learn more about the trade. The objective is to offer cheesemakers the opportunity to gain new skills and expertise by doing an intensive, three-week course.
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/ 28 January 2005
England beat South Africa A by six wickets in a day-night match played at the De Beers Diamond Oval in Kimberley on Thursday. Replying to the SA’s 50 overs total of 251/8, England, with 87 not-out from Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen’s aggressive 97 (his last 47 runs coming off only 21 balls) in the end achieved an easy victory.
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/ 28 January 2005
On a blackboard under a baobab tree in the Senegalese town of Peycouk, Samba meticulously spells out a vocabulary lesson for his 20 students, a piece of chalk clenched between the nubby fingers of his leprosy-scarred hand. ”It’s not a hardship, it’s not a punishment — it’s something that can happen to anyone,” he said, keeping his hands in view instead of hiding them in the folds of his robe.
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/ 28 January 2005
An isolated community of endangered gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is managing to hold its own and may even be growing despite the constant threat from poachers and civil war, a United States-based conservation organisation said on Thursday.
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/ 28 January 2005
All but one of the 17 Sasol employees and contractors taken to hospital after a fire at the Sasolburg plant have been discharged, the company announced on Thursday. The person remaining in hospital was being kept for observation and showed no signs of complications.
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/ 28 January 2005
South Africa’s Jewish community joined in the worldwide commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camps in a ceremony at a Johannesburg synagogue on Thursday. Rabbi Yossy Goldman thanked the Allies and the Russian army in particular for freeing Europe’s Jews from the Nazis.
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/ 28 January 2005
Persistent interference by the SABC’s politically mandated board in decisions ranging from programming to branding and technology purchases is threatening the broadcaster’s hard-won financial stability, according to current and former executives. Channel bosses are under intense pressure to run more current affairs and African content during prime time.
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/ 28 January 2005
Mpumalanga’s Economic Empowerment Corporation (Meec) this week backtracked on a public pledge by suppressing a damning forensic report on fraud and corruption at the corporation. Meec chief executive Ernest Khosa, who is being probed in connection with a series of irregular multimillion- rand loans, instead ”questioned” board directors on aspects of the report’s findings.
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/ 28 January 2005
The government plans to use microchipping and special enforcement agents to stamp out ”canned” lion hunting — but there are concerns about the ability of provincial officials to curtail this industry. If regulations published on Friday become law, all large predators kept in captivity will have to be microchipped and recorded in a database.
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/ 28 January 2005
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is suffering a haemorrhage of senior staff — including its gung-ho public face, spokesperson Sipho Ngwema, and Travelgate prosecutor Ben Avenant. Ngwema and Avenant are among a rash of senior NPA members who have resigned in the past three months, or plan to do so soon.