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/ 15 February 2005
Pretoria advocate pair Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo, accused of an array of sex crimes, appear to have had e-mail correspondence with websites dealing in child sex and bestiality, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday. Two apparent child-pornography pictures were also found on their computer’s hard drive.
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/ 15 February 2005
”Hey waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” These are words the Tourism Grading Council of South Africa hopes not to hear again. The country’s restaurant sector now has its first-ever grading system specifically designed for the industry. The grading is voluntary, and intends to assure quality in the food and beverage sector.
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/ 15 February 2005
South Korean intelligence officials said on Tuesday that while North Korea may have manufactured nuclear bombs as claimed, it lacked the technology to deliver them by missile. The state intelligence service, however, said the communist state might still be capable of striking targets by placing the bombs on aircraft.
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/ 15 February 2005
Against the backdrop of increased unemployment in the past 10 years in South Africa, the country needs a "green revolution" in which the government plays a key role in branding and promoting South African produce and products, says Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He was speaking in the debate on Tuesday on Friday’s State of the Nation address by President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 15 February 2005
Ireland’s major airport pledged on Tuesday not to clamp any more ambulances — after one was disabled while trying to ferry a seriously injured passenger to a Dublin hospital. Saturday’s clamping of the ambulance at Dublin International airport fanned public anger at clampers in Ireland’s capital, where the practice was introduced in 1997.
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/ 15 February 2005
The Zimbabwe cricket team arrived at the Johannesburg International airport on Tuesday morning for their tour of South Africa, eager to put their ordinary tour to Bangladesh behind them. Zimbabwe play three one-day internationals against South Africa, starting at the Wanderers on February 25, and two Tests, in Cape Town and Centurion.
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/ 15 February 2005
At least 203 workers were killed after a gas explosion at a coal mine in north-east China in the worst mining disaster in the country’s recent history, mining officials and state media said on Tuesday. China’s coal industry, the most dangerous in the world, saw 6 027 workers die in accidents in 2004, official figures show.
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/ 15 February 2005
For long, it epitomised the brutality of the apartheid state but Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent much of his life in prison, is now a lovers’ rendezvous. Fifteen couples from South Africa, Germany, Britain and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday said their ”I dos” in a church on the island.
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/ 15 February 2005
The gates to Tshwane University of Technology’s Ga-Rankuwa campus were blockaded on Tuesday morning by about 1Â 000 students who used burning tyres to keep out lecturers. They were protesting against a recently announced 6% fee increase imposed on them to bring the campus into line with the university’s other six campuses.
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/ 15 February 2005
A three-year-old boy with an intelligence quotient of 137 has become the youngest current member of the British chapter of Mensa, the international society for highly intelligent people, Mensa said on Monday. Mikhail Ali, from the northern English city of Leeds, was admitted to Mensa after undergoing tests at the University of York.