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/ 29 January 2007
China will lend African nations -billion in preferential credit over three years and double aid and interest-free loans over the same time, Beijing announced on Monday. The announcement stressed the offer came with none of the strictures that Western countries often demand — and which irk many African leaders.
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/ 29 January 2007
Mark Mobius, who oversees $30-billion in emerging-market equities at Templeton Asset Management, told I-Net Bridge on Monday that the relationship between the rand and commodities was not a simple one and that the key to reducing pressure on the balance of payments for a country was to add value to their commodities.
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/ 29 January 2007
The number of broadband connections, both fixed and wireless, is expected to reach over seven million by 2011 with DSL subscribers making up 3,7-million over the forecast period while cellphone technologies and fixed wireless broadband will fight it out for second place.
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/ 29 January 2007
Everyone knows Hillary Clinton has to overcome many obstacles if she is to win the White House in 2008. There is her image as cool, distant and elitist, the persistent doubts about having a woman as president, her Senate vote for the Iraq war and, for some voters, Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
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/ 29 January 2007
She believes that A1 will be the next big thing in international motorsport and her worst fear while driving is being stopped by a traffic cop. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> speaks to Dana Cooper, the CEO of A1 Team South Africa.
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/ 29 January 2007
The South African government has strongly denied that it intervened on Sunday to prevent discussion by the Africa Union of a report that criticises the crime rate in this country, the media reported on Monday. The report of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism on South Africa was not tabled before the AU’s heads of state as planned.
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/ 29 January 2007
About 2Â 000 Modikwa Platinum Mine workers gathered at the entrance of the Limpopo mine on Monday morning as the strike over a race dispute continued. National Union of Mineworkers spokesperson Onis Serothwane said union leadership will meet with their members on Monday to ”reconsolidate their mandate”.
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/ 29 January 2007
The United States is ready to contribute air support to an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, a leading official said on Monday. US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said that she had made the offer during talks on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa with the head of the AU Commission, Alpha Oumar Konare.
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/ 29 January 2007
All Black inside centre Aaron Mauger will leave New Zealand rugby after the World Cup to play for Leicester in England, he announced on Monday. He will play for the Canterbury Crusaders in the Super 14 competition this year before taking up a contract for two-and-a half-years with the Tigers in December.
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/ 29 January 2007
England are again set to be without three of their key players for the crunch triangular one-day series clash with New Zealand on Tuesday. Defeat will almost certainly end England’s hopes of reaching the tri-series finals to cap a disastrous tour, and they look to be missing captain Michael Vaughan as well as opening bowlers James Anderson and Jon Lewis.