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/ 11 December 2007
The West Indies do not have a good record in South Africa, but captain Chris Gayle believes they should be able to turn things around on their coming tour of this country. Speaking just after the team’s arrival from Zimbabwe on Monday, Gayle said he thought there was an excellent spirit within the West Indies team.
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/ 11 December 2007
Indian police on Tuesday began questioning South African cricketer Nicky Boje about a major match-fixing scandal in 2000, police Crime Branch officers said. The 34-year-old was escorted in a private vehicle by South African diplomats to a New Delhi interrogation centre where detectives began the questioning, they said.
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/ 11 December 2007
Jose Mourinho’s decision to turn his back on the job of England manager after talks with the Football Association has left Italy’s Fabio Capello as the new favourite to replace Steve McClaren. But having been widely criticised for rushing the appointment of McClaren in August last year, the FA may take their time in finding someone else to take on the job.
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/ 11 December 2007
South Africa’s gold production costs are among the highest in the world, the South African Reserve Bank said in its December <i>Quarterly Bulletin</i> released on Tuesday. Continued increases in input costs had an adverse affect on gold mining in the third quarter of 2007.
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/ 11 December 2007
Salaries for workers in the South African formal non-agricultural sectors accelerated to 7,5% year-on-year (y/y) in the second quarter of 2007 from 4,9% in the first quarter of the year, the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) <i>Quarterly Bulletin</i> showed on Tuesday.
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/ 11 December 2007
As if the idea of having one robot to serve a person wasn’t unusual enough, Honda says its robots are now ready to work in pairs — and they can even serve drinks. At a demonstration held on Tuesday in Tokyo, the automaker showed off two of the child-sized Asimo robots serving tea and performing other tasks.
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/ 11 December 2007
A computer program that poses as a flirtatious internet surfer is being used to steal people’s identities from online chatrooms, experts claim. According to analysts at online security company PC Tools, the robot — known as CyberLover — is being used by criminals to gather information on internet chatters.
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/ 11 December 2007
Zwelinzima Vavi was ”a bit reckless” in the comments he made about women’s equity, said African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe on Tuesday. ”History will judge him. I would expect a leader of his stature to be more circumspect,” Motlanthe said on Talk Radio 702.
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/ 11 December 2007
Rio Tinto, the world’s third-largest resources group, has played its trump card in its battle to maintain its independence in the wake of BHP Billiton’s hard-sold merger proposal by calling on the United Kindom’s Takeover Panel to set a deadline for a formal offer.
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/ 11 December 2007
The JSE pulled back from earlier gains by midday on Tuesday, as heavyweights Anglo American and BHP Billiton started to weaken. By noon, the JSE all-share index was only 0,15% in the black, after being up over 0,7% earlier in the session. The gold mining index rallied 3,42%, while the platinum mining index inched up 0,04%, but resources lost 0,17%.