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/ 29 October 2005
In spite of a head-on collision with bitter rivals Jomo Cosmos, the Kaizer Chiefs management has decided to continue a ”home from home” policy and will play their Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinal at Rustenburg’s Olympia Park next Sunday. The Premier Soccer League announced dates and venues for the quarterfinals.
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/ 29 October 2005
The Proteas set a new South African record of 11 consecutive one-day international victories when they beat New Zealand by 19 runs in a low-scoring but exciting match at Newlands on Friday. Defending the low total of 201, the South Africans played superbly to snatch victory from what appeared to be inevitable defeat.
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/ 29 October 2005
Black lawyers are finding it hard to survive in the profession, the president of the Cape Law Society, Sithembele Mgxaji, said on Friday. ”Regrettably, members of our profession leave in droves on account of the survival challenges; in particular, black legal practitioners,” he said.
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/ 29 October 2005
A pilot was killed when his plane crashed at Cathedral Peak near the Lesotho border on Friday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Captain Joshua Gwala said the pilot was travelling alone from Gauteng to Margate in KwaZulu-Natal when he reported he was experiencing engine problems.
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/ 29 October 2005
Peering through a microscope, a Durban plastic surgeon worked for seven-and-a-half hours to reattach a severed hand at the city’s St Augustine’s hospital on Friday morning. A 25-year-old employee of a paper company had his left hand severed across the palm by a paper-cutting guillotine on Thursday evening.
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/ 29 October 2005
Global brewing giant SABMiller has launched a $1,36-billion (R9,1-billion) offer to minorities of Colombian brewer Bavaria SA, in which it recently purchased a 71,8% stake. In terms of the offer, detailed on Friday, SABMiller is offering $19,48 per share in cash.
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/ 28 October 2005
Cape Town police arrested eight people after one man was killed and three injured in shooting outside the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Debby Pheiffer said a group of men started shooting at each other in front of the court.
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/ 28 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki’s role in the United Nations oil-for-food programme is to be questioned by the Democratic Alliance. ”President Thabo Mbeki must explain how he allowed South Africa’s diplomatic support to be bought by the government of the blood-thirsty, and now deposed, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein,” the DA said on Friday.
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/ 28 October 2005
Deaths at the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp could have been prevented had there been enough medical capacity, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Friday. On Friday, a report was released after an investigation into deaths at the centre by an independent committee.
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/ 28 October 2005
Springbok scrumhalf Fourie du Preez has been ruled out of the end-of-year tour after an medical scan on Friday afternoon revealed damage to his groin muscle. Du Preez felt discomfort on Thursday evening after suffering a groin strain at Thursday afternoon’s training session at St Stithians College in Johannesburg.
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/ 28 October 2005
One of the world’s most popular men, Nelson Mandela, has been immortalised in a comic-book series covering his life.
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/ 28 October 2005
South African firms should be given tax cuts designed to increase employment for a period of five years, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. For this period, employers should be given tax deductions of 150% of the first R2 000 per month of new employees’ salaries.
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/ 28 October 2005
First National Bank this week won the award for being the bank best at dealing with customer complaints, the Ombudsman for Banking Services said on Friday. The result was based on a telephone survey of 400 customers from each of the four top retail banks, conducted by Markinor, a market research company.
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/ 28 October 2005
Firefighters were on Friday working to contain a fire in the Rocklands and Elandsriver areas outside Port Elizabeth, a fire official said. Meanwhile, technicians were battling to restore power in parts of the Klein Karoo left without electricity after a fire, Eskom said on Friday.
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/ 28 October 2005
It’s not only shebeens and quarts of beer in Soweto. This weekend sees the fourth instalment of the yearly Soweto Beer Festival, where enthusiasts will be able to taste more than 40 beers. Godfrey Mautloa, owner of Masakeng Pub and Grill, started this initiative four years ago and expects 80Â 000 people to attend the four-day event.
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/ 28 October 2005
Black people from South Africa’s neighbouring states do not qualify for grants from the South African government in terms of its black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, says South African Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa.
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/ 28 October 2005
The price of petrol is be reduced by 31 cents per litre from Wednesday November 2, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The department said that during the period September 30 to October 27, the average international product prices for petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin decreased.
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/ 28 October 2005
The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has appointed a eight technical experts to probe the crash between the Blue Train and the Shosholoza Meyl in the Northern Cape on Wednesday night. Herman Bruwer, the regulatory body’s general manager for safety assurance, said on Friday the RSR was finalising the terms of reference of an independent board of inquiry.
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/ 28 October 2005
Durban has outlawed the use of boom gates, media reports said on Friday. The city had decided to allow the erection of security huts and CCTV cameras only, under strict conditions. Neighbourhoods which have boom gates and any other illegal security structures, which are not included in the new policy, will now be forced to remove the illegal structures.
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/ 28 October 2005
Zimbabwean MP Job Sikhala has backtracked on claims that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) received money from Ghana, Nigeria and Taiwan, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Friday. It said this came amid reports that the MDC MP was under pressure from his party to withdraw his remarks to stave off a police probe.
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/ 27 October 2005
The emergency Springbok contract talks between South African Rugby officials and the South African Rugby Players’ Association in Johannesburg on Thursday failed to deliver a favourable resolution, but a players’ strike was not a viable possibility. Another round of discussions is planned for Cape Town on Friday afternoon at which all parties will be aiming for a swift fix to the current problem areas.
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/ 27 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has appealed to all parties to ensure their candidates for the upcoming municipal elections have the interests of their communities at heart and not self-interest. Replying to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, he said there appeared to be intense competition among people wanting to be elected by their parties as candidates for the elections.
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/ 27 October 2005
Aids activists on Thursday challenged Western Cape health MEC Pierre Uys to seek a court interdict against vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath, or even have him arrested. The call was made in a memorandum handed over at a demonstration by about 200 Treatment Action Campaign members outside Uys’s office in Cape Town.
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/ 27 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has dismissed speculation South Africa might follow Zimbabwe’s example in dealing with land reform. Replying to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, he said the government was committed to respect the Constitution regarding its approach to land reform, restitution and redistribution.
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/ 27 October 2005
About R67,2-million not spent on HIV/Aids projects may be given to international organisations, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said at Parliament on Thursday. ”As a minister of health I wouldn’t be proud of that statement,” she told reporters at a pre-Aids Day briefing.
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/ 27 October 2005
Protests continued at the University of Zululand on Thursday, with an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) student wing saying political tensions between itself and an African National Congress-aligned student movement had reached ”terrible” proportions.
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/ 27 October 2005
”Problems” with an electronic signalling system could have caused Wednesday night’s head-on collision between the Blue Train and a Shosholoza Meyl passenger train, Spoornet’s chief executive said. The Northern Cape health department said five people were critically injured in the collision.
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/ 27 October 2005
Kaizer Chiefs completed the harrowing experience of drawing six successive Premier Soccer League (PSL) games during the goalless draw against Classic on Wednesday. In other matches, Supersport beat Leopards, Stars and Ajax played to a draw, Celtic lost at home to Swallows, and Cosmos and Santos ended 1-1.
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/ 27 October 2005
Listed supermarket group Shoprite has recorded an increase of 11,8% in its total turnover for the first three months of its 2006 financial year (July to September 2005) compared with the same period a year earlier, the group said in a trading statement on Thursday.
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/ 27 October 2005
Six proposed changes to the Gautrain line will save 50 of the homes originally earmarked for expropriation. Three of the houses — all in Pretoria — have provincial heritage value, Gautrain spokesperson Jack van der Merwe said in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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/ 27 October 2005
The South African Rugby Players’ Association (Sarpa) will hold emergency talks with SA Rugby officials in Johannesburg on Thursday in a bid to avoid a potential Springbok player strike, Sarpa CEO Piet Heymans said on Wednesday. Strike threats were reported on Wednesday, but Heymans played down the possibility of such action.
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/ 27 October 2005
Collective leadership, humility and unity within the movement are legacies with which former African National Congress president Oliver Tambo left the party, ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Zuma delivered this year’s OR Tambo Memorial Lecture at the University of Johannesburg.