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/ 26 September 2007
The JSE was steady at midday on Wednesday, unmoved by the release of local CPI and CPIX data which was in line with market expectations. By noon, the JSE’s all-share index had collected 0,52% as the gold-mining index advanced 1,22%. The platinum-mining index added 0,95% and financials climbed 0,68%.
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/ 26 September 2007
South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday he was ”devastated” by the human rights abuses of President Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe. Tutu said he struggles to understand how Mugabe changed so drastically after steering the country to independence in 1980.
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/ 26 September 2007
Fernando Torres scored three goals on Tuesday to lead Liverpool to a 4-2 English League Cup win at Reading, while Arsenal also reached the fourth round with a 2-0 win over Newcastle. Manchester City, Portsmouth, Sheffield United, Cardiff, Luton and Blackpool were the other teams to advance.
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/ 26 September 2007
The head of African miner Randgold Resources on Tuesday said net profit in its third and fourth quarters should be in line with the first-quarter level, citing higher bullion prices. Randgold, whose gold mines are mostly based in West Africa, posted first-quarter net profit of ,7-million.
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/ 26 September 2007
Plans to send Turkana Boy — a unique hominid skeleton — and other prehistoric jewels from Kenyan museums for exhibition in the United States have sparked heated debate among Kenya’s scientific community. The trip will bring in a much-needed windfall to Kenya’s cash-strapped museums.
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/ 26 September 2007
The Premier Soccer League’s chaotically-arranged first round of the Telkom Knockout competition will be launched on Wednesday night when Mamelodi Sundowns will attempt to repair their dented image against Golden Arrows at Loftus.
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/ 26 September 2007
Massive resource transfers to poor countries from rich countries are needed if the world wants to attain its Millennium Developmental Goals, South African President Thabo Mbeki told the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York late on Tuesday.
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/ 26 September 2007
Ferran Adrià is widely acknowledged as one of the best chefs in the world, famous for his innovative dishes. People wait for months to get a table at his legendary restaurant on the Costa Brava, El Bulli. But now the Catalan chef has turned his attentions to hospital food.
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/ 26 September 2007
Pakistan deployed dozens of police officers including elite commandos as the South African cricket team arrived in Karachi on Wednesday for a month-long tour of the country. South Africa are due to play two Tests and five one-day internationals in the violence-hit Islamic republic.
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/ 26 September 2007
Film producer Johan Heyns (58) was in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Fourways north of Johannesburg after being shot in the pelvis at his Bryanston home on Sunday night. ”He was already brushing his teeth when he saw a man in a red shirt with him in the bathroom,” said his wife, Sue Heyns.