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/ 29 October 2007
A search has been launched for a two-year-old boy who was kidnapped by his father, Western Cape police said on Sunday. Police spokesperson Malcolm Pojie said the mother, Lea Muller, from Beaufort West was also kidnapped on Friday but managed to escape.
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/ 29 October 2007
The last flight out taxied from the sparkling new Harare airport, lifted over the city and dipped its wings in farewell. With that, at 9am on Sunday, British Airways (BA) said goodbye to Zimbabwe. Though symbolic, it’s not the first time BA has been forced out of Zimbabwe in the 75 years since the first flying boats opened up the aerial link with Southern Africa.
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/ 29 October 2007
A defector who was born and spent 22 years in a North Korean prison camp said on Monday his motive in writing a book is to speak out for the children who grow up behind barbed wire. Shin Dong-Hyuk said that at the age of 14 he was forced to watch the execution of his mother and brother.
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/ 29 October 2007
Multinational Holcim, based in Switzerland, brought about one of the bigger black economic empowerment (BEE) deals last year by selling its stake in Holcim South Africa down to 8% from 54% for about R7,4-billion. Somehow the factual question of whether BEE had spurred the disinvestment became a political issue.
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/ 29 October 2007
South Africans are earning more. Much more. Total income has more than doubled in the past seven years. This phenomenal growth is eclipsed only by the growth of the black middle class, which has grown at an even faster rate. The latest Amps figures reflect rocketing growth in spending power, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.
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/ 29 October 2007
Last week, another armed group in the increasingly volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ignored a government deadline to disarm, increasing to three the number of illegal groups the Congolese army is chasing in that region.
At the same time, a Human Rights Watch report detailed the atrocities that threaten civilians living in this region.
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/ 29 October 2007
Turkey’s move towards a full-scale invasion of northern Iraq looks more like a crab’s walk than a charging bull. The ruling party of moderate Islamists has many foes to target, and not just the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the ostensible enemy, argues Jonathan Steele.
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/ 29 October 2007
The world’s largest bank last week announced it would take a 20% stake in Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank, in the biggest foreign direct investment by a Chinese company anywhere in the world. This means South Africa is now the top destination for Chinese foreign investment, ahead of Zambia and the Sudan.
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/ 29 October 2007
While the government continues to point fingers at the telecoms sector crying foul about excessive pricing, perhaps it needs to hold up the mirror to itself as the single biggest shareholder in the sector. With a 37% shareholding in Telkom, the government is by far the biggest investor in South Africa’s ICT sector.
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/ 28 October 2007
A 45-year-old skydiver was killed in Carletonville on Sunday when a landing manoeuvre went wrong, the Johannesburg Skydiving Club said. Spokesperson Mark Bellingan said Eric Stephenson died of multiple trauma injuries at the club. Stephenson started skydiving more than 22 years ago and had completed more than 5 300 skydives.