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/ 5 December 2005
A bomb threat, which caused Parliament to shut down on Monday afternoon, was a hoax, police said. Superintendent Vish Naidoo said the threats were made at about 1.50pm and Parliament was immediately evacuated. The disruption to Parliament was minimal as MPs were currently away in their constituencies.
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/ 5 December 2005
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+), a South African parliamentary party which claims to represent Afrikaans-speakers, has publicly backed South African billionaire businessman Johann Rupert who withdrew millions of rand worth of advertisements from a British magazine.
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/ 5 December 2005
Women were the most likely target of contact crimes in South Africa, with one woman or child raped every 10 minutes, South African opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Monday. As part of the 16 days of activism against women and child abuse, the DA hung up 22 486 pairs of girls’ underwear to represent the number of reported child rapes in 2004/05.
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/ 5 December 2005
Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) has received valid acceptances representing about 6,7% of the shares in Johnnic Holdings (JNC) which will take its stakeholding in the gaming and entertainment group to about 46,5%. HCI said on Monday that valid acceptances in terms of its mandatory offer for Johnnic had been received for 11 082 782 Johnnic shares.
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/ 5 December 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) announced on Monday that it will issue a licence for a second fixed line telephone operator (SNO) on Friday. The SNO will provide competition for telecommunications giant Telkom (which, until now, has commanded a monopoly over the industry.
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/ 5 December 2005
Responding to a recent survey, the chairperson of an ad hoc committee on corporate governance on Monday expressed concern at the poor state of workplace ethics in South Africa. It is reported that 68% of 237 companies surveyed in a fraud and misconduct survey expected an increase in fraud going forward.
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/ 5 December 2005
The Democratic Alliance hung up thousands of pairs of children’s underwear in the Cape Town suburb of Nooitgedacht on Monday to draw attention to the rape of 22 486 children in South Africa last year. He said that 60% of all contact crimes in South Africa were committed against women, and on average one woman or child was raped every 10 minutes.
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/ 5 December 2005
Nigeria’s state radio, television network and news agency were operating a skeleton service on Monday after thousands of journalists went on strike over unpaid allowances. ”We have decided on the strike because all government’s promises since 2003 to pay our allowances have been broken,” said a senior editor at the News Agency of Nigeria.
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/ 5 December 2005
Eighty-one percent of South Africans living abroad intend to return home eventually, a survey commissioned by Homecoming Revolution has found. Sponsored by First National Bank, Homecoming Revolution is a non-profit organisation encouraging and facilitating South Africans to return home.
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/ 5 December 2005
Prominent British playwright Harold Pinter, winner of this year’s Nobel prize for literature, has been taken to a London hospital, his agent said on Monday. Pinter’s doctors have already forbidden the 75-year-old from travelling to Stockholm this week to attend a Nobel prize ceremony and banquet because of ill health.