Standard Bank has signed a multimillion-rand enterprise licensing agreement with Microsoft South Africa for the upgrade of its 42Â 000 desktop PC platforms over the next three-and-a-half years, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. The agreement is valued at more than R100-million.
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Schabir Shaik left the Durban High Court on Thursday following his conviction on two counts of corruption and one of fraud relating to alleged irregular financial dealings with Deputy President Jacob Zuma. A spokesperson for Zuma said the deputy president will study the judgement before commenting.
Residents of Stilfontein told stories of skidding cars and moving houses after a large earthquake on Wednesday. "It was terrible. I got so scared," said one resident. Meanwhile, an expert said the earthquake, which drove thousands of miners to the surface at Stilfontein, was "a secondary effect" of mining activity.
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/ 11 January 2005
Dolly Mokgatle, the CEO of Spoornet, has resigned, parent Transnet said on Tuesday. Transnet has accepted her resignation with immediate effect. No reasons were given for Mokgatle’s resignation. Tami Didiza, head of Transnet group communications, declined to comment further, saying only that Mokgatle will be "pursuing other interests".
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/ 10 December 2004
The secret arms deal to acquire between R8-billion- and R14-billion-worth of highly sophisticated military transport aircraft should be suspended until a meeting is held by the parliamentary joint standing committee on defence, says official opposition Democratic Alliance MP Rafeek Shah.
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/ 25 October 2004
In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court ruled on Monday in favour of the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) request to televise Mark Thatcher’s civil case on Tuesday. Thatcher has been implicated in a botched coup in Equatorial Guinea and is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Nine political parties out of the 21 parties that contested Wednesday’s election at a national level are likely to be represented in Parliament. The African National Congress was on Thursday afternoon heading towards a pivotal 70%, followed by the incumbent official opposition Democratic Alliance at about 15%.
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The black economic empowerment charter on information communications technology (ICT), which was released in draft form on Tuesday, is not merely being implemented to create a black middle class, said Advocate Dali Mpofu, the chairperson of the ICT charter working group.
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/ 27 January 2004
South Africa’s CPIX inflation (headline inflation excluding mortgage costs) stood at 4% for the year to December, down from 4,1% in November. This is in line with market expectations. CPIX is the inflation measure used by the South African Reserve Bank for purposes of inflation targeting.
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/ 30 December 2003
South Africa’s 2003 national matriculation pass rate has improved by 4,4% to a total of 73,3%, Education Minister Kader Asmal announced on Tuesday, up from 68,9% in 2002, 61,7% in 2001 and only 48,9% in 1999. Asmal said the results ”clearly show that the tide has turned” for South Africa’s education system.