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/ 5 November 2007
The JSE remained weak at midday on Monday, in line with overseas markets as the troubled US subprime housing market continues to unsettle investors worldwide. At noon, the JSE’s all-share index was off 0,96%, resources fell 1.70%, the platinum mining index weakened 1,74%, but the gold mining index added 0,98% as the gold price stayed above $800/oz.
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/ 5 November 2007
Platinum Stars and Wits shared the spoils in a goalless draw in their Absa Premier match played at Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Mmabatho on Sunday. The home team, Stars, controlled both halves but were let down by their strikers who failed to get past Wits goalkeeper Moeneeb Josephs.
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/ 5 November 2007
Andre Petim, the Ajax Cape Town goalkeeper, was his side’s hero as he saved a late penalty to share the spoils with Free State Stars in a goalless Absa PSL match at the Athlone Stadium on Sunday evening. Ajax were out to avenge the 1-0 defeat they suffered at the hands of Stars, who eliminated them from the Telkom Knockout competition.
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/ 5 November 2007
Koni Media Holdings on Sunday denied government involvement in its bid to take over media and entertainment company Johncom. ”Koni Media strongly denies any involvement of the Presidency or any other government structures in its bid for a 100% stake in Johncom,” said group CEO Groovin Nchabeleng.
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/ 5 November 2007
The United States and Britain are on Monday expected to demand that Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf, honour pledges to hold elections in the next two months and step down as the army chief, or face a cut in Western support. The diplomatic showdown will come in the form of a meeting in Islamabad between the Pakistani leader and a group of ambassadors.
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/ 5 November 2007
Five robbers were arrested — four of them with gunshot wounds — after a shoot-out with the police after a robbery at the Checkers supermarket in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg, on Sunday. Johannesburg police spokesperson Captain Julia Claassen said the five-man gang robbed staff and customers of an undisclosed amount of money and cellphones.
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/ 5 November 2007
The campaign against Aids in South Africa has suffered several blows in recent years — from confusion about whether Aids is a virus or a syndrome to the infamous post-coital anti-Aids shower and by way of several job lots of dodgy condoms — which are key to the fight against the spread of the virus, writes Warren Foster.
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/ 5 November 2007
To hear George W Bush and Dick Cheney tell it, Iranians live under the boot of a monolithic dictatorship run by fanatics. But while political repression is ever-present in mullahdom, an increasingly vibrant debate ahead of parliamentary elections next March is giving the lie to the White House’s totalitarian parodies.
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/ 5 November 2007
Merrill Lynch parted company this week with its CE, Stan O’Neal, leaving the investment bank’s leadership in a state of limbo and prompting unease on Wall Street. Merrill announced that O’Neal had decided to retire with immediate effect after agreeing with the board that a change in leadership would "best enable Merrill Lynch to move forward".
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/ 5 November 2007
South Africa will push for greater exports and trade liberalisation in the coming years, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told Parliament on Tuesday in his medium-term budget policy speech. In particular, the textiles and clothing and motor vehicle sector tariffs have come under attack.