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/ 13 October 2006
Two former Scorpions bosses appeared in the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court on Friday on charges of theft, fraud and corruption, a police spokesperson said. Captain Dennis Adriao said the two handed themselves over to police and were arrested on Friday on charges relating to corruption, theft and fraud amounting collectively to over R1,5-million.
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/ 13 October 2006
Kgebetli Moele’s debut novel, Room 207 (Kwela), is a forthright look at compromises in Johannesburg, where ”you are either fast or dead”.
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/ 13 October 2006
Trade conditions in the South African business environment deteriorated slightly in September, the latest Absa/South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) Trade Conditions Survey has found. ”Even though the trade conditions are still in positive territory, the lower September trade activity index endorses the less vibrant trade conditions that are setting in,” said Sacob economist Richard Downing.
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/ 13 October 2006
The baby girl who was shot dead during a cash heist in central Johannesburg this week was laid to rest at the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto on Friday. The funeral service of Nkhensani Mtileni, which started at 10am, was attended by the family, members of the public, the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress Women’s League at the family’s home.
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/ 13 October 2006
There will not be fuel shortages this coming festive season, according to the South African Petroleum Industry Association (Sapia). "The industry assured the minister [of minerals and energy] that the plans put in place would ensure that there would be no supply shortages this festive season," read a joint statement from Sapia and the Department of Minerals and Energy on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2006
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel reflects on the Biafra conflict and the effects it had on all Nigerians, writes Maya Jaggi.
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/ 13 October 2006
It’s easier for the CEO of Exxon/Mobil to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a dissident documentary to be seen by the American public, argues John Patterson.
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/ 13 October 2006
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots efforts to lift millions out of poverty that earned him the nickname ”banker to the poor”. Yunus (66) set up a new kind of bank in 1976 to lend to the very poorest in his native Bangladesh.
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/ 13 October 2006
Nigerian police killed one man on Friday when they fired into a crowd of supporters of the governor of the central state of Plateau, who were protesting against an attempt to impeach him for corruption. Plateau is one of more than a dozen states in Nigeria where a battle for political supremacy between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is being played out.
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/ 13 October 2006
Title-holder Retief Goosen turned on the style at the Volkswagen Masters-China on Friday, rattling in a clutch of birdies and eagling the last to take a three-shot halfway lead. The world number seven, who has had a modest year by his standards, fired seven-under-par 65 for a two-day total of 129 at the Yalong Bay Golf Club.