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/ 31 October 2007
President Thabo Mbeki told lawmakers in Namibia on Tuesday that the two neighbours’ destinies were inextricably linked as he oversaw a new push to boost cross-border trade. After talks with host President Hifikepunye Pohamba, Mbeki was accorded the honour of addressing Parliament in Windhoek.
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/ 31 October 2007
A magnitude 5,6 earthquake struck in a rural area about 15km north-east of San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s biggest city, on Tuesday night, causing minor damage. The earthquake was felt across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond just before 3.05am GMT on Wednesday.
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/ 31 October 2007
World number four Ernie Els lashed out Wednesday at the European Tour for ”screwing up” their dates by scheduling the Volvo Masters to clash with the Barclays Singapore Open. Els leads the European Order of Merit by €222 000 from Ireland’s Padraig Harrington but is unable to play at the Masters in Spain this week.
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/ 31 October 2007
Merrill Lynch parted company on Tuesdya with its chief executive, Stan O’Neal, leaving the investment bank’s leadership in a state of limbo and prompting unease on Wall Street. After days of speculation, Merrill announced that O’Neal (56) had decided to retire with immediate effect.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) has set aside R70-million with which to pay members as a ”token of gratitude” for their part in securing rights and sponsorship deals. The amount would be ”apportioned to the members of the negotiating team and other role players” and would be a one-off payment.
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/ 31 October 2007
Zimbabwean authorities are to consider an application by a daily newspaper to resume publication four years after it was banned. Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said the Media and Information Commission would consider an application by the Daily News and its sister paper the Daily News on Sunday.
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/ 31 October 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Tuesday it would approach the Cape High Court on Wednesday for an interdict to stop the government from implementing an abalone fishing ban that would impact on poor fishing communities.
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/ 31 October 2007
Today in South Africa we have a growing element of people who, because of the level of brutality they exhibit, could be classified as feral in their actions — feral meaning wild and untamed, as defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English, writes Mary R Tomlinson.
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/ 31 October 2007
The continuing succession debate in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should focus more on devising strategies to manage the change of leadership and less on bashing party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi over perceptions that he is clinging to power, argues Zukile Majova.
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/ 31 October 2007
Despite growth in car use, most South Africans still use public transport and walk to get around, even though public transport is in a parlous state. The National Household Travel Survey, conducted in 2003, found that 38-million citizens live in households with no access to cars and that 40-million citizens do not have a driver’s licence.