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/ 16 November 2006
Gold theft from mines was estimated at R2-billion rand annually, the Chamber of Mines said on Thursday. Chamber of Mines deputy legal adviser Anton van Achterbergh said that a report, compiled by the Institute of Security Studies, ”confirmed … that about R1,8-billion- to R2-billion-worth of gold is stolen every year”.
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/ 22 October 2006
If an asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth, it could be deflected, a scientist from the European Space Agency said at the Johannesburg Planetarium on Saturday. An asteroid called Apophis, which means ”the destroyer”, was detected in 2004 and was initially projected to collide with the Earth in 2029.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) admitted on Thursday that there were rifts in its leadership. "On the matter of leadership, there are cracks and there are cracks in every union," Cosatu president Willie Madisha told reporters at a briefing on the resolutions adopted by Cosatu’s ninth national congress. Madisha said that these problems were all being confronted this week.