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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.
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About 145 Durban train drivers are expected to go on strike on Thursday afternoon over new rosters, a day after at least 28 coaches were burnt in Gauteng by commuters angered by delays. The drivers’ union will also meet Metrorail CEO Lauriette Modipane to discuss the safety of its drivers in the wave of train torchings.
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The latest wave of train torchings has cost Metrorail an estimated R200-million, leaving the company with no more trains to run between Gauteng’s Midway and Vereeniging stations, spokesperson Thandi Mlangeni said on Thursday. Commuters upset over train delays set 28 coaches alight on Wednesday evening.
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SABMiller plc, the world’s second-largest brewer by volume, has reported a 9% rise in its adjusted earnings per share for the six months to the end of September 2005, to 340,5 United States cents from a restated 311,1 US cents a year earlier, the company said on Thursday. SABMiller declared an interim dividend of 13 US cents.
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Premier Soccer League (PSL) CEO Trevor Phillips has grown tired of comforting and reassuring beaten, bruised and bewildered visitors to the PSL headquarters on the fringe of Harrow Road’s notorious ”Muggers’ Corner” — and finally persuaded the league to move from Doornfontein to a more circumspect area of Johannesburg.
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It is unfortunate that there is not more time for South Africa to get used to conditions in India, but they will just have to use every opportunity to familiarise themselves with conditions there, former batting great Daryll Cullinan said on Thursday. ”I believe the team should do quite well in India,” he said.
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United States envoy to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell has gotten off with a warning after raising the ire of his host country, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the Zimbabwean government had summoned and warned him not to interfere in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs.
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Three men who claim they were assaulted by metro police chief Robert McBride have accused the controversial cop of being the aggressor, media reports said on Wednesday. McBride, however, says he was punched and kicked by the three men after he saw them skip three red traffic lights on Saturday and tried to force their car off the road.
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A star-studded auction at a banquet in Johannesburg raised millions of rands for South African charities on Wednesday night. A yellow Lamborghini fetched R2,5-million, and a pair of diamond earrings worn by multiple Grammy-winner Christina Aguilera went for R50 000.
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Angry commuters torched 27 carriages on four Metrorail trains at three Soweto stations on Wednesday night. The incidents followed Tuesday’s burning of four carriages in Vereeniging by commuters irate at an absence of train services following the theft of a cable from Viljoensdrift.
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The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is often celebrated for its uniqueness: every internet user can create new articles and edit entries. Wikipedia’s popularity is shown by the fact that it records 1 000 page views per second, with about 100 servers to handle the traffic. However, the quality of entries is uneven; sometimes entries are even factually incorrect.
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/ 9 November 2005
There are competing claims to some of the land to which the Constitutional Court has already ruled that the Richtersveld community has a restoration right, it emerged on Wednesday. The announcement was made in the Land Claims Court in Cape Town by the state’s lead counsel in the Richtersveld land hearing.
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A high-profile South African will be in Dublin next week to boost South Africa’s bid to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup, bid chief executive Francois Pienaar revealed on Wednesday — with eight days to go before the winner is announced. However, he refused to disclose the identity of the mystery South African lobbyist.
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An agreement to improve working conditions of South African Airways (SAA) pilots, cabin crew and ground staff was announced in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”This reinforces the confidence we have in the ability of our people,” SAA chief executive Khaya Ngqula told reporters.
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Road runner Gladys Lukhwareni did not know a substance she had injected herself with to recover from an injury was a banned steroid, she said on Wednesday. Weeks after Lukhwareni tested positive, a further three Harmony Athletic Club athletes tested positive for the same substance.
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Details of pop megastar Robbie Williams’s tour to South Africa were announced on Wednesday. His tour kicks off in Durban at the Absa Stadium on April 10. He will be at Cape Town’s Green Point Stadium on April 13, and the last concert will be at Pretoria’s Loftus Versfeld on April 17.
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Further information relating to one of the four alleged kidnappers of Liam Aspeling (10) will be presented at the four’s next appearance in the Vereeniging Regional Court on Friday. The four men had expected to apply for bail on Wednesday, but the investigating officer and two files relating to the case had arrived too late for adequate preparation.
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The state on Wednesday told the Supreme Court of Appeal that the high-court trial of a 12-year-old murderer was ”identified in emotion”. The state is appealing against the sentence imposed on a Pietermaritzburg girl who became South Africa’s youngest female killer in 2004.
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Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has warned consumers against getting ”carried away” by the current upswing in the economy, saying inflation could bring some nasty surprises. The level of household debt relative to annual disposable income had already risen to almost 62%, marginally higher than its previous peak, he said on Wednesday.
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MPs on Wednesday were warned that the Gautrain rapid rail project may be suffering from "optimism bias" where the project may pan out to be far more expensive — and less popular in the eyes of the consumers — than the project planners envisaged.
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The withdrawal affliction that hampers Bafana Bafana with regular monotony when it comes to Benni McCarthy struck again on Tuesday when the talented but enigmatic striker was withdrawn from the squad to play Senegal in the Nelson Mandela Cup game at the Port Elizabeth Rugby Stadium on Saturday.
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The Premier Soccer League never ceases to surprise — and on Tuesday the national professional soccer body took the decision to stage the forthcoming Coca-Cola Cup semifinal between Ajax Cape Town and Supersport United at unfamiliar soccer territory in Kimberley.
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The African National Congress in the Western Cape has disciplined a member who fired shots in the air at a chaotic branch meeting in September, and accepted his protestations of loyalty to the provincial leadership. A disciplinary committee has sentenced Douglas Ndawonde to expulsion, but suspended the punishment for one year.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will reject any plea bargain offered by the state in his corruption trial, his lawyer, Michael Hulley, said on Wednesday. Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Scorpions special investigating unit had signalled its preparedness to entertain a plea bargain with Zuma.
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Cape Town’s Catholic archbishop received a verbal lashing from Camps Bay church members for not reporting a paedophilic priest to police, the Cape Times website reported on Wednesday. It said Archbishop Lawrence Henry apologised to his critics at a meeting on Tuesday night, saying he did not tell police because he did not know he was required to report it.
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The inauguration of the southern hemisphere’s largest telescope on Thursday near a small South African town would be a milestone towards realising the country’s aim as a ”first-rate science” country, astronomers said this week. The Salt (Southern African Large Telescope) will give astronomers a first-rate glimpse of distant stars, galaxies and quasars.
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The Scorpions have signalled their preparedness to entertain a plea bargain in the Jacob Zuma corruption case, media reports said on Wednesday. Sources close to the Scorpions suggested there was little appetite within the organisation to see Zuma behind bars for 16 years, the minimum sentence in serious fraud cases.
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/ 8 November 2005
Bloemfontein’s name might change to Thabure, the name of a Basotho chief’s white horse, if Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan approves the name change eventually. ”It’s just a suggestion at this stage, it is not even before the committee to consider it,” Mario Sefo, of the Free State department of arts and culture and secretary to the committee, said on Tuesday.
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Angered at the absence of trains in Vereeniging on Tuesday, commuters torched four carriages at the Residentia railway station, police said. No-one was injured in the attack, said Superintendent Maria Mazibuko.”The situation has been brought under control. Police are at the other stations to ensure that commuters are calm,” she said.
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The government’s proposed Sport Transformation Act was a political move that would do little for developing sport, the opposition Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. ”This proposed Act is purely a political move and will not help people on the ground. Government needs to take sport to the people instead of worrying about who plays for the Springboks,” said DA spokesperson Donald Lee.
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An audit report has revealed that the Mpumalanga education department has been defrauded of R26-million because of toilets and water tanks that were never supplied. According to the audit report the contractors were appointed to build toilets and provide water tanks to schools used as polling stations during the last national elections.
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The government is not specially selecting the land of Afrikaans South Africans for expropriation purposes, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Dirk du Toit said on Tuesday. He was briefing the media following discussions between a government delegation led by President Thabo Mbeki and the Afrikaans Discussion Group.