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The South African Reserve Bank raised its key repo rate by half a percentage point to 8,5% on Thursday, and warned inflation pressures were building in Africa’s biggest economy. ”The monetary policy committee remains concerned about the outlook for inflation going forward and is of the view that the risks to the inflation outlook are still on the upside,” Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said.
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/ 12 October 2006
Small, medium and micro enterprises in South Africa’s accommodation sector will receive a R170-million cash injection to prepare for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk told a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday: ”For the first time ever non-hotel accommodation … will also be contracted.
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/ 12 October 2006
One of the four men arrested in connection with the shoot-out between police and robbers in a cash-in-transit heist in central Johannesburg committed suicide on Thursday, police said. The three other men who were arrested on Wednesday were expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 12 October 2006
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has strengthened security measures after a police inspector was stabbed to death while escorting a prisoner to a courtroom earlier this week. Department spokesperson Lazarus Mothupi said on Thursday that four additional guards had been deployed to the Odi Magistrate’s Court in Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria.
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South African Herschelle Gibbs revealed on Thursday the names of three former Proteas cricketers involved in a match-fixing scam, said Indian police who now want to question the trio. One of the three was Derek Crookes, who toured India with the South African squad in 2000 and played 32 one-day matches making 1Â 001 runs. Police declined to identify the other two.
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Equatorial Guinea’s president says it is too soon to pardon foreign mercenaries jailed for trying to overthrow him, and he believes their South African leader Nick du Toit should stay inside for at least 20 years. In an interview with Jeune Afrique magazine, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo said it was too early to talk of a blanket pardon for the remaining prisoners.
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France’s lower house of Parliament on Thursday backed a Bill that makes it a crime to deny claims that Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War I. Though the Senate or President Jacques Chirac can still block the Bill, Turkey has made clear the move will badly damage relations with France.
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/ 12 October 2006
Twenty-six call centre workers — two of whom are pregnant — were hospitalised after insecticide leaked into the air conditioning during ”routine fumigation work”, Discovery Health said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday at 6pm at the company’s headquarters in Johannesburg. A preliminary investigation indicated that a technical fault was the likely cause of the problem.
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/ 12 October 2006
South African Herschelle Gibbs revealed on Thursday the names of three former Proteas cricketers involved in a match-fixing scam, said Indian police who now want to question the trio. One of the three was Derek Crookes who toured India with the South African squad in 2000 and played 32 one-day matches making 1 001 runs. Police declined to identify the other two.
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/ 12 October 2006
No evidence has been found of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) blacklisting some commentators and analysts because of their political views, the public broadcaster reported on Thursday. Mpofu said a commission of inquiry had found there was no blanket ban on certain political commentators and analysts.