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/ 25 November 2005
A massive hunt was under way on Friday for four men who shot dead a Johannesburg metro police officer and critically injured a South African Police Service officer and another metro police officer. Police spokesperson Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said the police officials were shot at with handguns and automatic rifles.
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/ 25 November 2005
The rand is forecast to remain stable against the dollar over the next three years, but depreciate on a trade-weighted basis, as the United States current-account deficit leads to dollar weakness, Econometrix economist Azar Jammine told a media briefing on economic prospects on Friday, hosted by Noah Financial Innovation.
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/ 25 November 2005
Protesters sang pro-Gauteng songs as they arrived at a public hearing about provincial boundary demarcations in Carletonville on Friday. They had come to town by bus from nearby Khutsong, where the issue has been the focus of recent violent protest.
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/ 25 November 2005
Border cricket has been at the forefront of the United Cricket Board’s youth development programme since 1987 and is regarded as the best in the country. The programme provides schools and clubs with equipment every year in order to help them participate in their fixtures.
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/ 25 November 2005
When Corne Krige realised that his body was trying to tell him enough was enough, there was only one course of action. ”I have never conned a club in my life, and I wasn’t about to start now. Moreover, I didn’t want people whispering among themselves that I wasn’t the player I’d once been,” says Krige in his new autobiography.
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/ 25 November 2005
This weekend’s fixtures, Orlando Pirates versus Sundowns and United against Kaizer Chiefs, give Pretorians another opportunity to stick it further to their more illustrious, but currently beleaguered, Johannesburg rivals. The slight snag is that the protagonists in this drama cannot in all honesty describe theirs as a tale of two cities.
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/ 24 November 2005
”This is a newspaper that has been banned, has been closed down, has been sued. The Mail & Guardian bears the scars of a difficult childhood. The broad outlines of the history ought to be known to you. And if they are not known to you, you obviously have not been watching Hard Copy on SABC TV,” said Irwin Manoim, one of the M&G‘s founding editors, at the newspaper’s 20th anniversary celebrations on Thursday.
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/ 24 November 2005
Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks has launched a R106-million scheme to help the gold manufacturing jewellery industry in South Africa. Aimed at reducing ”the current high cost of financing gold working capital” in South Africa, the scheme is part of the offsets of the Hawk and Gripen fighter aircraft component of South Africa’s controversial arms deal.
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/ 24 November 2005
No stone will be left unturned in the search for the truth behind alleged abuses in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. Mbeki urged members of the country’s intelligence services to aid inquiries, led by the inspector general and minister of intelligence, into these ”disturbing matters”.
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/ 24 November 2005
Johnnic Communications (Johncom) announced on Thursday that its interim headline earnings per share increased 156% to 179 cents for the six-month period ended September 30. The media and entertainment group said its profits increased by 24% to R160-million, while revenue jumped 14% to R2,2-billion.
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/ 24 November 2005
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Thursday unanimously reaffirmed its unequivocal support for embattled former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma, who has been charged by the National Prosecuting Authority with corruption. Allegations of rape have also been made against him.
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/ 24 November 2005
Jilted motor mechanic Alan Gietzmann was on Thursday jailed for life for the premeditated murder of his teenaged girlfriend, Caryn Lindesay. In addition, he was jailed for 22 years on five counts of inciting five different vagrant men to rape and murder Lindesay.
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/ 24 November 2005
Five National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) forensic experts are to be sent to Namibia next week to help with the investigation of mass graves recently discovered in the north of that country. The team will meet their Namibian counterparts, visit the area and inspect the human remains.
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/ 24 November 2005
Parliament’s chief finance officer Harry Charleton has been suspended with immediate effect pending an inquiry.Charleton was suspended by Secretary to Parliament Zingile Dingani last Friday ”due to serious allegations that have been levelled against him”, Parliament’s chief operating officer Tango Lamani confirmed on Thursday.
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/ 24 November 2005
Two more tourists were robbed at gunpoint at Waterval Boven in Mpumalanga, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Thursday. Last week, two tourists were stripped of a cellphone, a camera and cash at Waterval Boven, and earlier this month, 11 campers were robbed at gunpoint.
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has received a docket from the police on rape allegations against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The authority now has to decide whether to prosecute. NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said: ”We intend finalising this matter as soon as possible.”
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/ 24 November 2005
The Bafana Bafana slide continues unabated — with the Fifa rankings announced on Wednesday plummeting South Africa still further to 48th position in the world and eighth on the African continent. The previous Fifa rankings in October had Bafana 46th in the world and seventh in Africa.
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/ 24 November 2005
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Police are conducting tests on former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s blood to compare it with the DNA of semen found on the underwear of his alleged rape victim, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday. It said the forensic test results will soon be handed to senior police officials.
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/ 24 November 2005
Superior speed and ball-handling skills saw England sweep to a convincing 56-41 win over South Africa in the first Test in the Spar Challenge series at the Randburg Recreation Centre on Wednesday. South Africa were first to score, but England quickly went into the lead.
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/ 24 November 2005
The South African Allied and Transport Workers’ Union (Satawu) has called on the government to scrap the R20-billion Gautrain project. Satawu said that instead of spending such an amount on one service, the government should use the money to upgrade the entire rail network.
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/ 23 November 2005
The Gauteng and the North West legislatures will hold joint public hearings to consider the Constitution Twelfth Amendment Bill, which deals with South Africa’s cross-boundary municipalities. The Bill, which was recently passed by Parliament, proposes that some councils in Merafong be moved to the North West.
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/ 23 November 2005
Parties by government departments following the successful passage of their Budget votes through Parliament have cost South African taxpayers almost R1,7-million, says the Democratic Alliance. The most expensive celebration — R489 681-worth of partying — was held by the Department of Public Service and Administration.
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/ 23 November 2005
A campaign to stop controversial German vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath from conducting ”illegal” HIV trials in South Africa will be stepped up, three organisations said on Wednesday. ”He has got to be stopped,” Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha said.
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/ 23 November 2005
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The African National Congress on Wednesday reiterated its position that the rape allegations facing its deputy president are serious and have to be dealt with in terms of the law. This was a repetition of the position it took after a weekend meeting of the party’s hierarchy.
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/ 23 November 2005
Eight of South Africa’s nine provinces are being been severely affected by drought, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Wednesday. Hardest hit are northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, said the department’s senior manager of drought and risk management, Ikalafeng Kgakgatsi.
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/ 23 November 2005
Five taxi drivers were arrested in Johannesburg on Wednesday after allegedly shooting at the city’s metro police, who had arrested another four drivers at a roadblock. Meanwhile, about 60 people will be charged with public violence following clashes between two taxi associations in Port Shepstone on Wednesday morning, police said.
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/ 23 November 2005
Police management is still treating ordinary staff badly, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Wednesday. ”To this day, the employer does not recognise that police should have the right to strike like any other workers,” Vavi said.
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/ 23 November 2005
Two boys aged nine and 12 burnt to death in a shack fire in an informal settlement in Kliptown on Tuesday night, emergency management services said. The boy’s father apparently locked them in the shack with a burning candle before going out at about midnight, spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said.
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/ 23 November 2005
A stone struck KwaZulu-Natal legislature speaker Willies Mchunu on the head on Tuesday while he was on a fact-finding mission to the dissolved Abaqulusi municipality in Vryheid, the Natal Mercury website reported. Hundreds of Inkatha Freedom Party supporters stormed the hall where a community meeting was to be held.
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/ 23 November 2005
With the indifferent recent form of favourites Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs providing them with the impetus to swoop into the forefront of the Premier Soccer League title race, Moroka Swallows are in no mood to falter against Classic at the Harry Gwala Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 23 November 2005
The Spar South African women’s hockey team delivered a far more assured performance in the second Test against Canada at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday night to register a convincing 2-0 win. The result puts the hosts 2-0 up in the four-Test series.
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/ 23 November 2005
The venue for the first Test in the three-Test Spar Netball Challenge series on Wednesday has been changed from the Standard Bank Arena to the Walter Sisulu Hall at the Randburg Recreation Centre. Red tape has thrown arrangements for first Test between South Africa and England into chaos.