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/ 17 November 2007
Africa requires massive investment in its failing energy sector to boost economic growth and meet its goal of halving poverty, a United States-Africa business summit heard on Friday. Emerging economies required a 16% increase in energy to drive every 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) growth, said Andrew Fawthrop, Chevron energy company’s Nigerian vice-president.
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/ 17 November 2007
A powerful cyclone ripped through Bangladesh on Friday leaving a trail of destruction that claimed an estimated 1Â 000 lives and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the strong winds and driving rain. Cyclone Sidr crashed into the south-western coast after racing up the Bay of Bengal at 240km/h and triggered a 5m-high tidal wave.
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/ 17 November 2007
Print Media South Africa (PMSA) is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad after he threatened to withdraw government advertising from the Sunday Times. PMSA said it sought a meeting with the minister after he expressed his view that the government should pull its advertising from the weekly.
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/ 16 November 2007
A special Rwandan commission handed over on Friday a 500-page report on France’s alleged role in the country’s 1994 genocide, the commission’s president said. Paris has already rejected the competency of the commission of historians and jurists tasked to assemble evidence of France’s role in Rwanda’s genocide.
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/ 16 November 2007
Zimbabwe’s annual inflation shot to almost 15 000% last month, almost double the previous month’s rate and the worst mark yet in the country’s struggle with hyperinflation, according to reports on Friday. The Zimbabwe Independent quoted official sources as saying annual inflation in October reached 14 850%.
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/ 16 November 2007
Mutual & Federal will meet the National Guild of Independent Auto-Body Repairers to determine its concerns, the insurer’s CEO, Keith Kennedy, said on Friday. This follows a panel beaters’ march to the short-term insurance company’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 16 November 2007
The late Norman Mailer was the pioneer and prophet of a culture in which fact and imagination overlapped, writes Mark Lawson.
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/ 16 November 2007
Bones were found in a field in Modimolle on Friday after 200 police officers searched for the bodies of children who have been missing from the area since 2004, Limpopo police said. ”We are not sure if the bones belong to one of the missing children, or if they are human,” said a police spokesperson.
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/ 16 November 2007
KwaZulu-Natal’s Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader on Friday apologised to the province’s Premier, S’bu Ndebele, over comments he made about the permier’s alleged conflicting business interests. Shortly after the original statement was issued, Ndebele had threatened to sue Mtshali for defamation.
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/ 16 November 2007
A group of armed robbers held up a staff member and fled with an undisclosed amount of money at the well-known Moyo restaurant at Zoo Lake in Johannesburg, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Julia Claasen said that on Thursday night, one of the robbers went into the restaurant, sat at the bar and ordered drinks.