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/ 19 November 2007
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday rubber-stamped President Pervez Musharraf’s contested re-election victory in October, after he purged the court of hostile judges. ”Five petitions have been dismissed. One is pending and it will be heard on Thursday,” said the Attorney General Malik Qayyum.
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/ 19 November 2007
Ukraine was on Sunday night mourning one of the deadliest mining disasters in its 16-year history as an independent country, after at least 56 people were killed in an underground explosion — with 44 still missing. Rescue teams said there was almost no hope of finding more survivors at the Donbass colliery in eastern Ukraine.
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/ 19 November 2007
The two-week strike by construction workers at Durban’s Moses Mabhida 2010 stadium may end on Monday, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said. NUM spokesperson Bonginkosi Mncwabe said an offer had been made by the building contractor, the Group Five/WBHO consortium.
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/ 19 November 2007
President Robert Mugabe’s government published a draft Bill on Monday forcing mining firms to transfer majority shareholdings to local owners, including giving the Zimbabwe government a free 25% stake. The Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill is expected to be presented to Parliament and to be approved before the end of the year.
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/ 19 November 2007
The head of the Land Bank’s treasury, Makgale Gwangwa, has not been suspended from duty, the bank reiterated in a quarter-page advertisement on Monday. the Land Bank said it had become important to ”set the record straight” amid ongoing media speculation about the situation at the bank.
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/ 19 November 2007
Finance ministers and central banks chiefs from the G20 grouping of largest economies meeting near Cape Town expressed ”deep concern” over the effect of climate change on global food prices and forecast a modest slowdown in global economic growth.
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/ 19 November 2007
Daihatsu’s funky little Sirion has had a facelift, and the Sports model has been given a 15% increase in capacity to give it performance more in line with its name and image. Ever since its launch in 2005, the third-generation Daihatsu Sirion has received favourable comment from the press. Although a diminutive hatchback in appearance, the Sirion offered loads of interior space.
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/ 19 November 2007
A breakdown in agricultural support structures appears to have sparked a crisis in the Land Bank. Allegations of mismanagement have dogged the institution in recent years, but the emerging farmers the bank is meant to help have been left worst off.
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/ 19 November 2007
Government is paying parents to save for their children’s higher education. The Association of Collective Investments — in partnership with the education department — has launched a savings plan for tertiary education where government pays an additional 25% of whatever parents have saved for the year as a bonus to beef up the savings plan, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 19 November 2007
Even though economic growth is substantial and social service delivery — while not as fast as we want — is reaching millions, Aids will continue to kill hundreds of thousands in South Africa, burdening families and orphaning children. Recent research in Swaziland presents a picture that is disastrous and deteriorating.