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/ 20 October 2006

SA economy on track for a good year

South Africa’s economy remains on track for a good year, but while rising incomes will continue to provide support for consumer spending, higher interest rates and growing structural imbalances will muzzle the country’s overall expansion, according to Moody’s <i>Economy.com</i> economist Dr Ruth Stroppiana.

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/ 20 October 2006

Road rage on Car-Free Day

Fists flew in Honeydew in Johannesburg on Friday morning -– Car-Free Day — as a motorist and a taxi driver fought each other in a bout of road rage. Minibus taxi drivers had to be chased from the scene as ”chaos” broke out when they rushed to their colleague’s aid, said chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar from the Johannesburg metro police.

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/ 20 October 2006

Tough call for Shilowa

Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa is facing a dilemma after the National Prosecuting Authority decided not to prosecute former social development provincial minister Bob Mabaso on a complaint of attempted rape and sexual harassment.

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/ 20 October 2006

Smith in a flat panic

Cricket people pride themselves on the equanimity that their infamously fair game implies about their souls; and this adoration of evenhandedness is never more explicit than in the sport’s idiom. A cross-cultural lingua franca thick with yin and yang, cricket’s discourse is so accepting and stoic that it can seem to verge on some sort of Victorian Buddhism.

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/ 20 October 2006

What does this Frenchman know about football?

The famous back four, all in their thirties when Wenger arrived, gave each other an old-fashioned look. Lee Dixon thought the new manager looked like a geography teacher. Tony Adams wondered: ”What does this Frenchman know about football? He’s not going to be as good as George [Graham]. Does he even speak English properly?” Ray Parlour did impressions of Inspector Clouseau.

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/ 20 October 2006

Arms deal man raided by UK cops

The London home and the offices of an arms broker linked to a supplier in South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal have been raided by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office, it was reported on Thursday. The Guardian said the raids were part of a probe into corruption allegations against Britain’s biggest military hardware exporter, BAE Systems.