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/ 7 December 2007
Draw up a balance sheet of all your assets and liabilities (debt). Keep this as a record of how your finances are faring. It must include all your debt from your house to your credit card. Include the current value of your pension fund on the asset side.
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/ 7 December 2007
A few friends and I collect R1 000 a month like a stokvel, but we need to invest this money instead of giving it to one person a month. We want to invest from February until November. There are five of us, so we will be putting in R5 000 a month. Please advise on how to invest this.
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/ 7 December 2007
The end of the year is a good time to examine your finances, but this year take some time to review your domestic worker’s retirement plan. For many households domestic workers form the backbone of the support structure and it’s important to ensure they are provided for when they retire.
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/ 7 December 2007
Outgoing International Rugby Board (IRB) chairperson Syd Millar believes foreign invasions will have a damaging effect on European domestic rugby. Several World Cup stars — including All Blacks Chris Jack, Aaron Mauger, Carl Hayman and Luke McAlister, plus Springbok flyhalf Butch James — have arrived in the Premiership.
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/ 7 December 2007
This week Muttiah Muralitharan became the highest Test wicket-taker in cricket’s long history. It’s an extraordinary, heart-warming achievement that will be celebrated at length and in style in Sri Lanka and elsewhere in the cricket world. But there will be quarters, particularly in Australia, where it will be begrudged and depicted as tainted.
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/ 7 December 2007
Platinum-mining stocks were propping up the JSE in noon trade on Friday, enhancing gains driven by Wall Street in the morning session. By 11.58am, the JSE all-share index lifted 0,7%, supported by a 3,24% advance in the platinum-mining index. Resources collected 0,94% but the gold-mining index dipped 0,87%.
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/ 7 December 2007
Even if Brian Barwick picks up the telephone to make the call almost every England fan is clamouring for, the Football Association might not end up with José Mourinho as the next national manager. But the FA’s chief executive would get detailed insight into what it will take to make England succeed from one of the most successful and intelligent managers.
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/ 7 December 2007
Graham Henry defied history on Friday when he was reappointed as All Blacks coach despite holding the reins during the team’s worst-ever World Cup performance this year. The New Zealand Rugby Union has traditionally been an unforgiving employer and no previous coach has survived a failed World Cup campaign.
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/ 7 December 2007
The death toll from China’s latest major coal mine disaster rose to 105 on Friday, official media said, as hope for survivors ebbed and anger mounted over a litany of mistakes that compounded the tragedy. Twenty-six more bodies were recovered on Friday morning following a gas explosion at the mine in northern China’s Shanxi province.
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/ 7 December 2007
A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 15 people in a town north-east of Baghdad on Friday. Police said the attack targeted members of the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, a Sunni Islamist insurgency group which has recently begun working alongside security forces against al-Qaeda.