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/ 28 September 2004
Banking group Absa on Monday moved to allay employees’ fears of retrenchments following discussions with England’s Barclays Bank about them buying a controlling stake in Absa. ”This transaction, if it happens, is about growth and leadership, not retrenchment,” said Absa group executive Steve Booysen in an open letter to staff and customers.
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/ 28 September 2004
A mentally disturbed woman allegedly killed an 81-year-old woman in Cresta shopping centre in Johannesburg on Monday, police said. Captain Schalk Bornman said the pensioner’s throat was slit with a knife. The woman escaped from the custody of her father while they were sitting at a restaurant, and allegedly slit the pensioner’s throat before walking away, he said.
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/ 28 September 2004
Ali al-Shaer was delivered in separate ambulances to the mob awaiting his arrival with a mixture of fury and obscene fascination at the Nasser hospital. First came what remained of his charred torso after an Israeli rocket slammed into his car as it worked its way through the cluttered streets of Gaza’s Khan Yunis refugee camp on Monday.
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/ 28 September 2004
Gideon Nieuwoudt fully disclosed his role in the 1989 Motherwell bombing, his counsel said in closing arguments of his amnesty application in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Monday. The former security policeman’s actions were politically motivated, and the orders to kill had been in the interests of national security, his lawyer said.
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/ 28 September 2004
A newly discovered short story by Ernest Hemingway indicates that part of the writer’s ultra-macho image had its origin in a scene of knockabout farce in a Spanish bullring in his youth. Hemingway himself sent up the incident, one of the few occasions when he is known to have been less than earnest about a sport he came to view as semi-mystical.
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/ 28 September 2004
A South African woman whose arrest in July raised concerns about whether terrorists could easily enter the United States by way of Mexico pleaded guilty on Monday to immigration violations. Federal officials declined to say whether the woman had ties to any terrorist groups.
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/ 28 September 2004
French police protested on Monday after Hannibal, the son of the Libyan leader, Moammar Gadaffi, was allowed to go free after being clocked at more than 139kph on the Champs-Elysées. ”This is a genuine scandal,” said Frédéric Lagache of the biggest police union, Alliance, when it emerged that Gadaffi (28) had not been charged after he presented his diplomatic passport.
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/ 28 September 2004
British contractors in the Basra area of Iraq are following the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley with concern and sympathy, but have questioned the wisdom of living and working in Baghdad without security or personal protection. Many who watched Bigley’s impassioned plea for mercy on oversized television screens last week say that it would not have happened to them.
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/ 28 September 2004
Under a nearly full moon, rebel fighters leapt on to the sand from the back of their battle-wagon; a Toyota pick-up truck with a machine gun on its cab and an anti-tank missile launcher slung from the wing mirror. The moonlight picked out every rock, bush and dune for miles, but these men had no fear of being seen or heard.
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/ 28 September 2004
Malcolm Pringle followed up his 800m golden world record with a silver medal in the 400m and seasoned swimmer Scott Field bowed out with three silvers and a bronze in the 50m freestyle when Athens Paralympic action came to an end on Monday night.