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/ 23 January 2007
The Johannesburg Hospital is investigating allegations that its pharmacists dispensed expired medicines, media reports said on Tuesday. Pharmacists at the hospital allegedly dispensed expired medicines to state patients, sticking labels over the expiry dates.
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/ 23 January 2007
Abdulrahman Abdulqadir was watching his favourite football team Arsenal on satellite television when the seven gunmen burst into his shack in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. ”They were shouting ‘This is not allowed’, ‘This is against Islam’,” said the 18-year-old electrical engineering student.
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/ 23 January 2007
An Australian abalone diver told rescuers on Tuesday he was partly swallowed head-first by a great white shark but managed to fight his way free, suffering a broken nose and bite marks around the chest. The 25-year-old diver said he was underwater off Cape Howe, near Eden on Australia’s south-east coast, when the shark attacked on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2007
Taxi drivers in China’s financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with ”spit sacks” to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road, state media reported on Tuesday. Phlegmatic cabbies will soon have a sack fixed to the metal grill that surrounds the driver’s seat, so that both they and their passengers can make use of it.
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/ 23 January 2007
Workers’ rights groups launched a worldwide campaign on Monday to promote ”decent work” in football in the lead up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the International Trade Union Confederation said. The campaign would initially focus on the construction sector in the build-up to the tournament in South Africa.
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/ 23 January 2007
Thousands of Lebanese protesters blocked main roads in Beirut and around the country with rubble and burning tyres on Tuesday at the start of a general strike called by the opposition to try to topple the government. The opposition, which includes Hezbollah, is demanding a unity government and early elections.
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/ 23 January 2007
The Investec Commodity Fund appreciated by 10,8% over the last quarter of 2006, handsomely outperforming its benchmark, the JSE resources index, which rose by 4,5%. Looking ahead, the market is focusing on demand-side concerns (particularly for copper) and the possibility of a large surplus of copper during 2007.
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/ 23 January 2007
December brought to a close what has been a very rewarding quarter for the Investec Value Fund, with the month’s 7% return bringing the quarterly return up to a substantial 21,59% — well ahead of the all-share index’s return of 11,8% and sufficient to place the fund as the top-performing value unit trust over the quarter.
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/ 23 January 2007
For the optimists, 2006 was yet another triumphant year. Our optimistic prediction at the beginning of the year of a 25% return from South African equities proved still too conservative, as the market delivered yet another massive 40% plus return — despite what was not the most perfect of years. What then can we expect from 2007?
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/ 23 January 2007
Springbok coach Jake White is relying on South Africa’s Super 14 coaches to make sure key players are fit for the Rugby World Cup. Unlike New Zealand and Australia, whose national coaches will oversee restrictions on playing time in the Super 14 for their best players, White said he was leaving those decisions to the coaches of the Bulls, Cheetahs, Lions, Sharks and Stormers.