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/ 8 December 2005
The JSE was in the red just before noon on Thursday, dragged down by profit-taking and weaker world markets. While off their highs, gold stocks remained strong on the back of the bullion price which reached a 24-and-a-half year high of $519,01/oz in Asian trade.
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/ 8 December 2005
Nominal house price growth declined further to 14,7% year-on-year in November 2005, according to the latest Absa House Price Index. This was the lowest year-on-year growth since mid-2002 and brought the average house price in the middle segment of the market to about R727 700 in November this year.
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/ 8 December 2005
The Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, has finally acknowledged the governor of Florida, Jeb Bush — one of his most vociferous critics — as a political heavyweight. But his comments were a well-aimed dig at Bush’s expanding waistline rather than any softening of relations between Havana and Washington.
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/ 8 December 2005
Six motor manufacturers and importers are to pay over R31-million in administrative penalties for anti-competitive practices, the Competition Commission said on Wednesday. The six companies are General Motors, Nissan, Volkswagen and its Gauteng dealers, Subaru dealers, Citroeuml;n and DaimlerChrysler.
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/ 8 December 2005
Dozens of women are rotting away, imprisoned in a former royal palace without trial or sentence, penned up in cramped cells over charges of murder, kidnap and the new Iraq nasty: terrorism. The Queen Alia palace in Baghdad, once home to the mother of King Faisal and formerly replete with gold panelling, was rebranded into a women’s prison after the fall of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958.
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/ 8 December 2005
Vodacom this month launched South Africa’s first mobile TV service which is accessible by subscribers with Vodafone live! 3G cellphones, the cellphone operator announced on Thursday, adding that these users would be able to watch live TV on their cellphones.
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/ 8 December 2005
The Department of Land Affairs is set on achieving its target of 30 percent redistribution of agricultural land by 2015, excluding the 13 percent that constituted the former homelands and the South African Development Trust areas.
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/ 8 December 2005
It is time to rethink the strategies used so far in the fight against HIV/Aids as they have shown their limitations, particularly in Africa, according to Michel Sidibe, the Malian who is deputy head of UNAids, the body coordinating the fight against the
pandemic.
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/ 8 December 2005
Syria is engaged in clandestine talks about reopening peace negotiations with Israel in an attempt to head off United Nations sanctions next week over its alleged role in the February assassination of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister. Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, is being urged by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to restart bilateral talks with Israel that collapsed in 2000.
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/ 8 December 2005
If found guilty, he could face the gallows. But since the start of his trial, deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has shown indifference for his victims, aggression to his judges and no regret for his more than two decades in power. Saddam has yet to reveal any hint of weakness in the face of the graphic and sometimes gruesome testimony from witnesses who stood just metres away from him.