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/ 14 September 2004
Australian captain Ricky Ponting is backing his four pace bowlers to blast a way through to the ICC Champions Trophy final. Ponting went into the opening group match with the quartet of Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Michael Kasprowicz and Jason Gillespie and was rewarded with the nine-wicket demolition of the United States.
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/ 13 September 2004
A Zambian court has dropped charges against former president Frederick Chiluba for the theft of -million in public funds but the ex-leader was arrested and charged only a few hours later with embezzling one million dollars. A prosecution official said the charges were dropped to re-organise the case.
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/ 13 September 2004
During 2003 and 2004, South Africa received more direct development assistance than any other of 27 African countries supported by the US Agency for International Development or the US government. Since 1994, the US had donated to South Africa to more than R2,2-billion since 1994.
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/ 13 September 2004
The department of health is being taken to court again by Aids pressure group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), which is demanding the department release its detailed anti-retroviral rollout programme. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has already filed notice of her intention to oppose it.
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/ 13 September 2004
Thursday’s public sector strike could cost the economy between R200-million and R1-billion, said Dawie Roodt, the chief economist of the Efficient Group. ”The country’s economy generates about R4-billion a day. The state comprises about a quarter of that. The public servants, however, are not exactly wealth producers, more like facilitators and so this should lessen the negative impact,” said Roodt.
Cosas says exams should be postponed
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/ 13 September 2004
Thieves stole 10 rare monkeys after breaking into a zoo in southern England at the weekend, the second such heist in two months, zoo officials said on Monday. A four-week-old Goeldi’s monkey and its parents were among the primates stolen during the break-in on Saturday night at the Shaldon Wildlife Trust, near Teignmouth, Devon, the officials said.
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/ 13 September 2004
Nguyen Quoc Nam Anh from southern Vietnam has confounded English examiners by passing a university-level English proficiency test, at the age of eight. Anh scored 550 out of a maximum 660 points in the Test Of English as a Foreign Language, according to Nguyen Thai Binh Long, office manager at the Foreign Language Centre of Vietnam National University, where the girl took the test.
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/ 13 September 2004
The Kenyan tourism sector is back on a profitable path after setbacks spawned by negative publicity in the past five years, the state-run Kenya Tourism Board said on Monday. The sector is expecting its revenue to increase by three billion shillings (,5-million) this year, up from 25-billion (,5-million) it earned in 2003, said KTB spokesperson Rose Kwena.
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/ 13 September 2004
Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, said on Monday it had received a 98-milllion-euro order from Libya’s General Post and Telecommunications Company for a cellphone network. Nokia will deliver second-generation GSM and next-generation, or 3G, WCDMA equipment for a nationwide cellphone service covering Tripoli and the western parts of the country, the Finnish firm said.