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South African trade union Solidarity has received notice from gold mining group Harmony that the group plans to shut down its Welkom 1, Elands and Merriespruit shafts. Large-scale dismissals are also planned at the Bambanani mine, Solidarity added. Trade unions, including Solidarity and the National Union of Mineworkers, have 30 days in which to respond to the planned dismissals.
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The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) on Tuesday evening threatened a consumer boycott of all SA Breweries products if some of their members were not reinstated. ”We will take the matter forward. Some issues we will take up seriously, including a total boycott of SAB products until such time as the matter is resolved,” said Fawu president Patrick Jonson, one of a group of about 20 Fawu members who chained and shackled themselves outside SAB’s Newlands depot.
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The number of Aids cases in Japan is slowly increasing, and the number of HIV-positive people is estimated to be far higher than reported.
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Hurricane Ivan on Wednesday had the northern United States Gulf Coast in its sights, its howling winds and lethal surf sending thousands scrambling out of its way, fearing the worst after it punished Cuba and killed more than 70 people across the Caribbean.
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Yahoo is buying online jukebox provider Musicmatch for -million in a deal designed to broaden the internet giant’s appeal with the growing audience of consumers who buy songs off the web. The all-cash acquisition, announced on Tuesday, gives Sunnyvale-based Yahoo a major drawing card as it competes against the likes of Apple Computer, RealNetworks and Napster in the rapidly growing field of digital music management.
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday it has found a new security flaw with its Windows XP operating system and warned that an attacker could infiltrate other computers by persuading their owners to open a specialised graphics file. The company released a patch to fix the flaw as well as a tool that allows users to scan their systems to see if they need it.
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Sivuziwe Mzamo is a grade 11 student at a former Model C school in Grahamstown, and the modest inventor of a bicycle-powered cellphone charger. This week he won the hearts of 20 journalists at the Highway Africa annual conference held at Rhodes University . Mzamo upturned his bike on a table, spun the wheels, and presto — his plugged-in Nokia was charging.
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Fermented fish sauce sloshed on everything from freshly grilled shrimp to french fries may not be to everyone’s taste, but it’s all the rage on this island off southwestern Vietnam. Phu Quoc Island, about 45km off Vietnam’s coast in the Gulf of Thailand, is famed for making the best fish sauce — or nuoc mam as it known in Vietnamese — in the world, and its 80 000 inhabitants are justifiably proud of their reputation.
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Australia has taken action to prevent an Irish-owned ”super trawler” from plundering fish stocks around the country’s southeast coast, officials said on Thursday. Fishermen and conservationists had warned that allowing the 106-metre Veronica into Australian waters would devastate populations of small pelagic fish.
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A ”secret” painting by the young Pablo Picasso was unveiled at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao on Tuesday after experts found it hidden beneath layers of paint on another of his canvasses. The 104-year-old painting was on Tuesday hailed as Picasso’s first Paris picture, painted during a visit in 1900 when he was 19.