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/ 7 November 2007
Hawkers, often the breadwinners of their families, should not be marginalised in the run-up to the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a colloquium on the international soccer spectacle heard in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Stadiums under construction are often far from amenities and hawkers are providing much-needed services to construction workers.
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/ 7 November 2007
Australia announced a nationwide ban on Wednesday on about one million Chinese-made toys after investigations showed they contained a chemical that metabolises when swallowed into a date-rape drug. The ban came after three children became severely ill after they swallowed the toy beads called ”Bindeez”.
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/ 7 November 2007
More than 40 cases of diarrhoea were reported in the Nkangala area in Delmas, Mpumalanga, on Wednesday, the provincial health department said. ”We had 44 more patients treated today [Wednesday]. That brings the number to 469 since the outbreak [two weeks ago],” said departmental spokesperson Mpho Gabashane.
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/ 7 November 2007
Estate planning is not only about the accrual and use of your assets during your lifetime — it also involves the final division of your assets at your death for the benefit of your family. To ensure that you successfully transfer your wealth from one generation to the next, it is important that you plan appropriately and by means of professional advice.
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/ 7 November 2007
<b>Virgin investor Mpho asks:</b>
I am a first-time investor and I’m interested in investing in the Satrix. I read their brochure, but I haven’t yet grasped the whole concept of investing in the Satrix. Is it a good investment product? Are the returns good short-term and long-term?
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/ 7 November 2007
The commission set to investigate the disappearance of R500 000 donated to the South African Communist Party has not interviewed South African Democratic Teachers’ Union president Willie Madisha or his witness, Madisha told the union’s general council on Wednesday.
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/ 7 November 2007
The defence in Judge Nkola Motata’s case objected on Wednesday to the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court viewing recordings of Motata’s alleged drunken rantings after a car accident. A trial within a trial began to determine the authenticity, originality and admissibility of five video recordings.
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/ 7 November 2007
A delay in the government’s support for the establishment of the South African biofuels industry has hampered growth and delayed investments, business research group Frost and Sullivan said on Wednesday. A new analysis by the company found that South African biofuels markets could earn revenues of -million in 2010.
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/ 7 November 2007
It was supposed to be a geek palace for some of the brightest people on the planet. Dissonant angles, sloping floors, an exterior that suggested some sort of implosion — these were just the sort of challenges that inspire the great brains sheltered therein.
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/ 7 November 2007
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in the Moses Kotane municipality in the North West Province said it was shocked to learn that the mayor intends to use public money to hire a personal chef. The union said it had tabled a demand that the position be cancelled.