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/ 7 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>The period since the completion of the ANC provincial nomination process has been marked by an intense campaign to entice Polokwane delegates across the country to change their voting patterns. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to delegates from several provinces. "I have been personally approached to vote for Jacob Zuma" said Zoyisile Dyasi from OR Tambo region in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 7 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>Lobbyists for African National Congress (ANC) president Thabo Mbeki stand accused of using increasingly sleazy tactics in a frenzied drive to win over delegates in the run-up to the ANC conference in Polokwane, which starts in nine days. Hitting on individual delegates perceived as hostile to their cause, the campaigners are allegedly using state resources to buy votes.
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/ 7 December 2007
China’s largest steel company BaoSteel called on Friday on the Australian government to intervene to prevent BHP Billiton from taking over rival miner Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto has rejected an unsolicited three-for-one scrip offer from the world’s biggest miner, saying it significantly undervalues its assets.
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/ 7 December 2007
Glenn Agliotti denies being the crime boss known as "the Landlord", but new evidence is emerging of the fantastic scope of the international contraband networks in which he was a player. Agliotti pleaded guilty this week to facilitating the importation of two tons of hashish from Pakistan via Iran early last year.
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/ 7 December 2007
Tiger Brands chief executive Nick Dennis has advised the company’s board of directors that he intended to take early retirement. He would also resign as a director of the company with effect from the conclusion of the annual general meeting of shareholders, scheduled for February 19 2008.
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/ 7 December 2007
It doesn’t get madder than this. Swaziland is in the grip of a famine and receiving emergency food aid; 40% of its people are facing acute food shortages. So what has the government decided to export? Biofuel made from one of its staple crops — cassava. Several thousand hectares of farmland have been allocated to ethanol production in the Lavumisa district, the place worst hit by drought.
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/ 7 December 2007
Help is just a click of a button away for consumers who are fed up with the limited range and late fees of conventional DVD rental stores. Now you can rent movies from the comfort of your home and all you need is a credit card and an internet connection. PushPlay is South Africa’s first online DVD rental service that offers subscribers DVDs delivered straight to their door.
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/ 7 December 2007
An aggrieved husband once referred his dispute with his wife to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), asking it to grant a divorce. The story, part of CCMA lore, says something about the reach of the employment tribunal into the national psyche. The latest Tokiso Dispute Settlement review reveals interesting aspects of that psyche, writes Barrie Terblanche.
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/ 7 December 2007
Rampant inflation — driven by food and fuel prices — is hurting the poor the most, but anticipated interest rate hikes might not adequately deal with the problem, some economists argue. Food prices, which are rising at more than 12% a year already, are expected to continue this trend for the next few months.
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/ 7 December 2007
Bosasa Operations, a diversified BEE company with state contracts worth more than R2-billion, has been threatened with an application for liquidation by a small building contractor. Cross Atlantic Properties 39 says the controversial outfit owes it more than R500 000 for work done at the home of Bosasa’s group operations coordinator, Angelo Agrizzi.