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/ 30 October 2004
Mamelodi Sundowns played to a goalless draw against Wits University in a Castle Premiership game played at the Bidvest Stadium in Johannesburg on Friday night. The game was delayed for 15 minutes owing to a capacity crowd outside the stadium trying to gain access.
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/ 30 October 2004
Referee Daniel Bennett spoiled what could have been an enthralling derby between life-long Soweto rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs at the FNB Stadium on Saturday. Pirates beat Chiefs 2-1. The school teacher’s inconsistency and his dubious decisions prompted thousands of fans from both clubs to throw missiles.
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/ 29 October 2004
An 11-year-old pupil died and four others were injured when the wall of a classroom under construction collapsed on them at a school near Hartenbos in the southern Cape on Friday. Aubrey Peterson, who was in grade five at Brandwacht Primary School, and his school mates had been playing on the site.
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/ 29 October 2004
South African Airways (SAA) will soon be a separate entity reporting directly to the Department of Public Enterprises, Transnet chief executive Maria Ramos said on Friday. Addressing the Cape Town Press Club, Ramos said she has received permission from the Cabinet to begin the process of taking SAA out of the Transnet group.
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/ 29 October 2004
Frail Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was admitted on Friday to a French military hospital near Paris for urgent treatment for what is said to be a potentially fatal blood disorder. It is the first time in three years that Arafat, symbol of the Palestinian struggle for statehood, has left his West Bank base, a sign of the gravity of his condition.
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/ 29 October 2004
A total of 199 people have been diagnosed with cholera — a deadly but preventable disease that is generally contracted from polluted water supplies — and two have died in the West African state of Senegal, health officials said on Friday. Forty-eight new cases were reported between Thursday and Friday.
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/ 29 October 2004
Parrots in Sydney’s Royal Botanical Gardens are getting drunk on tree nectar that has fermented in the spring sunshine, it was reported on Friday. The Sydney Morning Herald said rainbow lorikeets in the central Sydney reserve were staggering around tipsy after eating nectar from the Schotia brachypetala tree.
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/ 29 October 2004
Actress Helen Mirren. who has starred in the Prime Suspect television series for more than a decade, was named naturist of the year on Friday by Britain’s main nudist group. British Naturism said Mirren was selected from among ”a number of well-known celebrities who have made their love of a naturist lifestyle public”.
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/ 29 October 2004
”Feeling great” and accepting his award on behalf of all New Zealanders who fought apartheid, was how Trevor Richards expressed himself after receiving the Order of OR Tambo on Friday in Pretoria. Amid much pomp and ceremony, President Thabo Mbeki bestowed national orders on 30 recipients at the Union Buildings.
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/ 29 October 2004
Zambia has halted a dodgy deal in which former senior government officials connived to defraud the government of ,1-million. Marck Chona, chairperson of the task force on corruption, said in a statement on Thursday that some officials who served in a previous government had tried to pocket money by inflating state debts.