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Left-arm spinner Paul Harris wreaked havoc with the Dolphins’ batsmen after lunch on the second day of the four-day Supersport Series cricket match at Kingsmead on Friday and earned the Titans an unexpected lead of 48 runs before bad light again caused an early stoppage.
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Ryk Neethling was once again a regular visitor to the podium on the first day of the Fina Swimming World Cup in Durban on Friday. Last year saw the Olympic gold medallist picking up a total of 21 World Cup medals in the eight-leg series and taking the overall title. This year, it seems, will be no different.
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/ 12 November 2005
The Warriors enjoyed an excellent second day of their Supersport Series cricket match against the Free State Eagles at St George’s Park on Friday, ending play on 153 for one in reply to their opponents’ first-innings 391. The Warriors will be feeling much happier after they had watched the Eagles soar to 329 for five on Thursday.
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Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter is confident that his team can beat Senegal in Saturday’s Nelson Mandela Cup match to be played at Port Elizabeth’s Epru Stadium. ”The boys are looking sharp,” Baxter said after his team’s final training session on Friday afternoon.
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The violent train protests and torching of municipal offices in Gauteng this week were the ”ugly face of our reality”, President Thabo Mbeki wrote in his weekly online letter on Friday. ”It is the task of our movement to mobilise the people to protect public property, which is held in trust by the state for the people,” he wrote.
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/ 12 November 2005
The father of 10-year-old kidnap victim Liam Aspeling was shot and wounded while in a witness-protection programme, the Vereeniging Regional Court heard on Friday. Vernon Aspeling is a state witness in the Cape High Court trial of a group of people facing 28 charges, including robbery and kidnapping.
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/ 12 November 2005
The founder of the African National Congress’s Economic Research Unit, Selebano Zacharia Matlhape, was a lifelong fighter for democracy, the ANC said in paying him tribute on Friday following his death last week. ”South Africa bids a sad farewell to one its most remarkable sons,” said ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama.
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Surgeon General Vijay Ramlakan confirmed on Friday that Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota had suffered a heart attack on Wednesday. ”He was alone in his official residence in Cape Town when the incident happened. Minister Lekota … was able to summon help from Staff Sergeant Andre Salamat,” he told reporters.
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A date for the corruption trial of dismissed deputy president Jacob Zuma will formally be set at his appearance in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. Police frisked supporters as they streamed to the court on Friday evening, and put the crowd inside their barriers at more than 2Â 000 by 11pm. More were gathered outside.
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/ 11 November 2005
The African National Congress noted ”with pain” the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal on Friday of an appeal by politician Tony Yengeni against a fraud conviction and four-year sentence. The party will continue giving Yengeni moral and political support, it added. The African Christian Democratic Party said Yengeni should be thankful his sentence was not increased.
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Johan Prinsloo, CEO of the South African Rugby Union, was found not guilty of sexual harassment subsequent to a formal disciplinary hearing held in Cape Town. Prinsloo’s legal representatives stated that although not surprised, they are satisfied with the outcome of the hearing.
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Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter on Friday described a report that he had ”quit” as coach of the South African national soccer team as a ”complete fabrication”. A newspaper report proclaimed he had already ”quit” his position and would make an official announcement to this effect immediately after the Nelson Mandela Cup game on Saturday.
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The metropolitan area of Cape Town was without power for almost two hours on Friday afternoon, apparently due to a technical problem related to the Koeberg power station. An outage at the Koeberg nuclear power station cut the electricity supply to the Cape Town city centre, an Eskom spokesperson said.
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The serving and former MPs facing the music in Travelgate, the parliamentary travel-scam case, on Friday received a provisional indictment that details fraud and alternative theft charges totalling about R24-million. At the same time, a Cape Town magistrate turned up the heat on the Scorpions to finalise their preparation for the case.
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The Department of Labour has told security guards who marched to its offices in Pretoria on Friday that it will consider their demands on improved working conditions and salary adjustments. The department is preparing to investigate demands made by the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union.
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Hundreds of singing protesters from Khutsong and other areas around Carletonville gathered at the township’s stadium on Friday morning to march to the local police station. Their mission was to present a memorandum on the latest events related to protests over provincial demarcation.
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Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota was ”fine” on Friday morning after being rushed to a Cape Town hospital due to a medical emergency, his office said. ”He had a good night’s sleep, and he is doing fine,” ministerial spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi said from Pretoria.
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The African National Congress government seems paranoid about disaffected minorities staging a counter-revolution, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday. ”The president seems to think that foreign-funded non-governmental organisations are out to undermine the government,” Leon said.
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A four-year jail term imposed on fraudster politician Tony Yengeni ”errs significantly on the side of leniency”, the Pretoria High Court found on Friday in dismissing his appeal against conviction and sentence. An effective five-year sentence would have been more appropriate, judges Eberhard Bertelsmann and Ferdi Preller said.
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/ 11 November 2005
Investigations into the discovery of a mass grave 400m from a former South African military base in Namibia would be a government to government issue, the SA National Defence Force said on Friday. Construction workers earlier this week discovered a mass grave containing human bones and ammunition.
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/ 11 November 2005
African ministers of finance will be meeting in Tunis on November 22 and 23 to seek common positions on a range of issues affecting regional economic development and chart a course of action for the coming years. The meeting will be hosted by the African Development Bank.
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/ 11 November 2005
An outbreak of dysentry — believed to be caused by polluted water — has hit Harare and Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Friday. It said more than 200 cases had been reported in Mbare and at three residential blocks in Chitungwiza in the last few weeks.
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Judgement in Tony Yengeni’s appeal against his fraud conviction and four-year sentence will be handed down in the Pretoria High Court on Friday. Hearing the appeal last month, two judges grilled the state for supporting the former African National Congress chief whip in his bid for a more lenient penalty.
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/ 11 November 2005
Black women in South Africa are no strangers to photography. In years gone by, however, they have typically found themselves in front of the lens — often portrayed as ”’mother of the nation’, ‘black sex object’ or ‘poor, black victim without agency’,” in the words of gender activist Janine Moolman. Now this situation is changing. Black women are making up a growing list of photographers finding success behind the camera.
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/ 10 November 2005
South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni deserves support for his position that remaining exchange controls should be abolished, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance. Mboweni said on Wednesday that South Africa’s remaining foreign-exchange controls have become "purposeless".
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/ 10 November 2005
Eight hostel buildings and about 150 shacks were gutted by a fire in Stellenbosch’s Khayamandi settlement on Thursday, the town’s assistant fire chief Bertie Brandsen said. Meanwhile, other firefighters were battling a new blaze in mountainous farmland above the Overberg town of Napier.
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/ 10 November 2005
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has been admitted to hospital in Cape Town after a medical emergency, his office confirmed on Thursday. Lekota is thought to have suffered a heart attack, but his spokesperson Sam Mkhwanazi could not confirm this. Lekota is also the national chairperson of the African National Congress.
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/ 10 November 2005
The Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) at the South African Astronomical Observatory outside Sutherland is powerful enough to discern the detail on a R2 coin at a distance of 5km. Salt will enable the country to remain among the front ranks of those involved in astronomy, President Thabo Mbeki said at its inauguration on Thursday.
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/ 10 November 2005
South Africa could be without star midfielder Elrio van Heerden in their Nelson Mandela Cup match against Senegal on Saturday. Van Heerden twisted his ankle during the team’s training session at the Westbourne Oval on Wednesday evening. A diagnosis on the extent of the injury will only be available later on Thursday.
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/ 10 November 2005
KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress Premier Sibusiso Ndebele should refrain from attending a routine court appearance of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Saturday, says Democratic Alliance KwaZulu-Natal leader Roger Burrows. The party says that leading public demonstrations outside court would undermine judicial independence.
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/ 10 November 2005
Tensions in the tripartite alliance in the Western Cape have flared anew with a stinging rebuke in a letter published in the Cape Times on Thursday to Congress of South African Trade Unions provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich by the chairperson of the African National Congress in the province, James Ngculu.
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/ 10 November 2005
Tshwane municipality and the Department of Public Works signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday on a joint initiative to redevelop the city centre. The Re Kgabisa Tshwane project will cost the municipality R2-billion, while the national government will contribute R9-billion over 25 years.