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/ 30 October 2006
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has again been rewarded for its coverage of the Oilgate scandal. <i>M&G</i> journalists Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole, together with former staffer Wisani wa ka Ngobeni, share this year’s prestigious Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award with <i>Personal Finance</i>’s Bruce Cameron, it was announced on Sunday evening.
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/ 30 October 2006
Legendary Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, whose close links to Beijing alternatively led to him being called the ”Patriotic Capitalist” or the ”Godfather”, has died in Beijing at the age of 83. Fok, who died on Saturday night, was a vice-chairperson of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a property tycoon.
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/ 30 October 2006
Lawyers for Zimbabwean labour union leaders facing charges of trying to launch an illegal protest against President Robert Mugabe’s rule sought on Monday to have the case scrapped. Lawyer Alec Muchadehama told a magistrate’s court that the law the 30 leaders and members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions were alleged to have breached actually violated basic constitutional rights.
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/ 30 October 2006
Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement on Monday accused neighboring Ethiopia of ”declaring war” on them, as they awaited the delayed resumption of peace talks in Sudan with the country’s weak government. While they and mediators prepared for the late arrival of a government delegation, the Islamists renewed accusations that Ethiopia had sent troops to Somalia.
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/ 30 October 2006
President Thabo Mbeki has conveyed South Africa’s condolences to the families of the dozens of people who died in the Nigerian airliner crash. Presidential spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga said Mbeki assured Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo of South Africa’s ”thoughts and prayers during Nigeria’s period of grief”.
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/ 30 October 2006
Crime levels on commuter trains are still unacceptable, but the dedicated rail-police unit is making a difference, government and commuter-rail officials said on Monday. They were speaking in Cape Town at the national launch of the South African Police Service Railway Unit, which began operating in the Western Cape in 2004.
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/ 30 October 2006
Flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town will cost about R200 until the end of December on board South Africa’s new domestic airline, Mango, it was announced in Johannesburg on Monday. ”We are getting South Africans to travel,” said Mango’s newly appointed CEO Nico Bezuidenhout.
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/ 30 October 2006
AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s second-largest gold miner, said on Monday it swung to a profit in the third quarter after the price of gold rose. The Johannesburg, South Africa-based company said net income for the three months through to September 30 came to R1,47-billion, compared with a loss of R1,05-billion in the same period a year earlier.
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/ 30 October 2006
Listed South African retailer Woolworths celebrates 75 years of trading in the South African retail market on Tuesday, the company said in a statement. To celebrate its birthday, Woolworths is donating 75 water tanks to needy schools identified through the EduPlant programme.
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/ 30 October 2006
Greenhouse-gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly entrenched as the biggest polluter. In an annual update on global-warming pollution, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said that, compared with the benchmark year of 1990, the 41 industrialised countries it monitors trimmed their emissions by 3,3% by the end of 2004.