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/ 21 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in positive territory in noon trade on Tuesday, buoyed by demand for gold and banking stocks. The bourse had come off its highs, however, on the back of a strengthening rand. By 12.22pm, the all-share index added 0,24%. Industrials strengthened 0,63%.
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/ 21 September 2004
Bloated corpses filled morgues as Haitians faced yet another tragedy in a year marked by revolts, military interventions and deadly floods. At least 622 people were killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne, and officials expect to find many more bodies. Jeanne regained hurricane strength on Monday, but was far out in the Atlantic.
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/ 21 September 2004
Hostage throat-slitting and pornography rub shoulders in the stalls of the infamous ”thieves market” in the heart of Baghdad. Television sets rigged to sound systems broadcast the sounds and sights of tortured hostages, belly dancers and pornographic movie stars in the open-air stalls of Bab al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad.
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/ 21 September 2004
Building on the centuries-old tradition of ”snus”, a Scandinavian form of moist snuff used by more than a million Swedes seeking a smokeless tobacco, one enterprising woman hopes to cash in on the European wave of public smoking restrictions and health campaigns urging smokers to stub out for good.
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/ 21 September 2004
The United States will sell Israel nearly 5 000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Tuesday. The deal could face political controversy since Israel has used such bombs in fighting with the Palestinians, the daily said.
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/ 21 September 2004
The lives of up to half a million people living with Aids in Africa can be saved each year if they are also treated for turberculosis, two United Nations agencies said on Tuesday. They said about eight million of about 25-million Africans who live with HIV — the virus that causes Aids — also carry the germs that cause TB.
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/ 21 September 2004
A small footnote to the increasingly incensed rantings of my old friend (since three weeks ago) Ronald Suresh Roberts. He wishes to share with the world the fact that I, like my forbears, am someone who simply likes to keep on dancing. (”Matshikiza”, by the way, means ”the dancer”. How could I be expected to avoid the ancestral trap? But he is not to know this — since he doesn’t bother to do his background research.)
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/ 21 September 2004
Wednesday will be D-Day for public-sector unions and the government to come to an agreement on salary increases as the two parties participate in a formal meeting at the Public Services Coordinating Bargaining Council. Anton Louwrens of the Public Servants Association said unions are canvassing their members on the latest government offer.
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/ 21 September 2004
South Africa’s state-owned defence and aerospace group Denel has been awarded contracts amounting to $2-million (about R13-million) to supply aircraft tooling for the production of the Indian Air Force’s new BAE Systems Hawk advanced jet-trainer aircraft. The South African-manufactured tooling will be exported to India.
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/ 21 September 2004
Aggravated robbery was the only violent crime to show an increase over the past two financial years, national police commissioner Jackie Selebi announced on Monday. Murders dropped by 9,9%, attempted murder by 17,8%, serious assault by 4,3%, common assault by 2,6% and common robbery by 7,8%, he told reporters in
Pretoria.