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/ 2 February 2005
There was an impromptu strike at AngloGold Ashanti’s Tautona mine in Carletonville on Tuesday evening, due to problems with a shift boss and the manner in which mine workers’ grievances against him had been handled, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Wednesday.
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/ 2 February 2005
The total number of liquidations recorded for 2004 was 3Â 510, a 14,1% decline on the 2003 total of 4Â 086, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. The 14,1% decline was due to a decrease of 34,2% (from 857 to 564) in compulsory liquidations and a drop of 8,8% (from 3Â 229 to 2Â 946) in voluntary liquidations.
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/ 2 February 2005
South Africa have it all to do in the second Standard Bank one-day international at Goodyear Park on Wednesday, following their two-one defeat in the Castle Lager/MTN Test series against England, and their 26 run defeat in the first match at the Wanderers on Sunday.
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/ 2 February 2005
Riding through a Nigerian forest on motorbikes, four white Zimbabwean farmers are checking out the land they’ll soon settle on, hoping to start a new life here after being chased off their farms. Since 2000, some of the thousands of farmers forced off their land have moved to neighbouring Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia.
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/ 2 February 2005
Scientists have made them walk and talk. There are even robots that can run. But a South Korean professor is poised to take their development several steps further, and give cybersex new meaning. Kim Jong-Hwan, the director of the ITRC- Intelligent Robot Research Centre, has developed a series of artificial chromosomes that, he says, will allow robots to feel lusty.
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/ 2 February 2005
The Sudanese government could be hit by targeted United Nations sanctions after the publication on Tuesday of a 244-page investigation into the Darfur crisis which detailed horrific and widespread crimes against humanity, including the systematic use of rape as a weapon of terror.
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/ 2 February 2005
A woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling on eBay three nonexistent cases of Duff brand beer — the favourite of cartoon character Homer Simpson. Tara Edith Woodford (28) pleaded guilty in the Mackay Magistrates Court in northern Queensland state to three charges of dishonestly gaining money by false pretences.
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/ 2 February 2005
Britain will warn the United States this weekend that the fight against terror will be hampered by poverty in Africa as the government launches a concerted diplomatic effort to secure President George Bush’s support for more generous debt relief and a doubling of aid.
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/ 2 February 2005
The leader of a powerful Shi’ite coalition claimed ”a sweeping victory” in Sunday’s elections in Iraq but pledged to include minority groups, including Sunni Arabs, in the running of the country. Election officials were starting the second stage of a long vote-counting process on Tuesday and an official result is not expected for at least a week.
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/ 2 February 2005
In 1990, which is almost unimaginably long ago in internet years, the notion that computer scientists might one day create an artificial replacement for human memory was the stuff of science fiction. This notion gave birth to the idea that would come to change, at a fundamental level, the way we think. Its most feverish point was reached yesterday, with the launch of MSN Search, Microsoft’s long-awaited rival to Google.