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/ 28 February 2006
Larry Williams hit headlines when in one year he traded $10 000 into $101-million in the 1987 World Cup Trading Championships. Ten years later his home-schooled 16-year-old daughter made the news for winning the same competition, trading her $10 000 into more than $110 000. He is currently in South Africa conducting seminars around the country.
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/ 28 February 2006
Trade experts say the United States is demanding far deeper market access than South Africa is willing to give, particularly in the area of services that are covered by regulatory protection rather than tariffs. South African business appears to be waking up late to the fact that the country may be walking away from a free trade deal with the US.
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/ 28 February 2006
Five candidates are vying for the Ugandan presidency, while close on 1Â 000 are contesting Parliamentary seats in 214 constituencies as well as the 69 districts which are reserved for women. Miria Obote, wife of former head of state Milton Obote, is the Uganda People’s Congress presidential candidate.
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/ 28 February 2006
"The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class represents the pinnacle of car-making excellence to the car-buying public. It is a blend of technology that Mercedes-Benz has been perfecting over decades. The technology on the new S-Class is by far its most astounding attribute and one can only hope that, such expensive technology becomes commonplace," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 28 February 2006
Sometimes it was hard to work out if Jaguar’s decision to launch the new XK in the exotic winelands around Cape Town — home to some of the best driving roads on the planet, as well as the odd pushy baboon — was a sign of supreme confidence, or a lack of it.
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/ 28 February 2006
”It received just a few column centimetres in a couple of papers, but the story I read last week looks to me like a glimpse of the future. A company in Ohio called CityWatcher has implanted radio transmitters into the arms of two of its workers. The implants ensure that only they can enter the strongroom,” writes George Monbiot.
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/ 27 February 2006
Heavy rains accompanied by misty conditions in Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni resulted in more than 80 accidents on Monday, according to metro police and emergency services. Meanwhile in areas of Mpumalanga, disaster-management teams have been dispatched to minimise the effects of possible flooding.
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/ 27 February 2006
International veterinary experts gathered in Paris on Monday to discuss the fight against bird flu as the lethal H5N1 strain made further advances in Africa and French authorities started a mass vaccination programme of ducks and geese. The potentially deadly virus made new strides in Africa, with reports of the first cases in Niger.
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/ 27 February 2006
Otis Chandler, the former publisher of The Los Angeles Times who transformed his family’s provincial, conservative newspaper into a respected national media voice, died early on Monday. He was 78. Chandler was the scion of a family that wielded financial and political power in the Los Angeles area for decades.