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/ 9 February 2007
The court case involving former spy boss Billy Masetlha and two co-accused was postponed in the Pretoria commercial crimes court on Friday. Masetlha’s co-accused, Muziwendoda Kunene, a software salesperson, and Funokwakhe Madladla, the former National Intelligence Agency manager for electronic surveillance, have already been charged with fraud.
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/ 9 February 2007
The Department of Communications, cellphone companies and Telkom are finalising plans to address call termination rates this year, President Thabo Mbeki announced on Friday. This would be to the benefit of all consumers, he told Parliament in his State of the Nation address.
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/ 9 February 2007
The French defence and aerospace company Thales on Friday received an order valued at -million to supply advanced flight simulators to an Indian firm, Rudradev Aviation, a news report said. In all, four simulators would be configured for European-made Airbus and United States Boeing aircraft.
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/ 9 February 2007
After losing ground over the previous two days, the JSE bounced into the black on Friday, with higher commodity prices boosting resources stocks. Positive European markets were also helping. By 11.55am, the all-share index added 0,56%. Resources rose 0,93% and the gold-mining index jumped 2,34%.
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/ 9 February 2007
A Markinor poll of 3Â 500 South Africans has found that nearly three out of every four South Africans are happy with President Thabo Mbeki’s performance and more than three out of five agreed that he could be trusted to do what was best for South Africa.
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/ 9 February 2007
A journalist working for South African free-to-air television station e.tv and at least one assistant were arrested in eastern Zimbabwe this week while trying to report on illegal dealings in the diamond-rich Marange district, the station told the Mail & Guardian Online on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2007
Negotiations between the striking members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Modikwa mine management in Burgersfort, Limpopo, reached a deadlock on Friday despite the intervention by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, the union said on Friday.
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/ 9 February 2007
”I remember standing on the terraces as a young man watching Luton, Watford, Spurs or Arsenal and listening to the fans spout off about the referee. It’s no different for players: we sit in the dressing room after the game and debate the decisions ourselves,” writes Portsmouth goalkeeper David James.
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/ 9 February 2007
Before Wednesday night, Aamir Sohail’s voice was a lonely one — that of a prophet howling in the wilderness — and had he suggested that the cricket series currently under way was a dress rehearsal for a possible World Cup semifinal, he would have been ridden out of town on a rail, writes Tom Eaton.
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/ 9 February 2007
A club owned by Sierra Leone star Mohamed Kallon is set to cause a stir in the African Champions League this weekend. FC Kallon shocked fellow debutants Ocean Boys of Nigeria by forcing a 0-0 draw last month in the first leg of a first-round qualifier for the ,5-million competition.