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/ 21 November 2006
Almost two-thirds of South African black women entrepreneurs — more than one million business owners overall — have no access to credit or loans and represent a lucrative new market, a World Bank study found on Tuesday. About 38% of black South African women are formally banked compared with 44% of black men.
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/ 21 November 2006
A University of Johannesburg project hopes to track down the elusive genetic barcode of Earth’s plant species through research at the Kruger National Park, the university said on Tuesday. A small team of scientists aims to collect examples of all the plants in the park, said university spokesperson Herman Esterhuizen.
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/ 21 November 2006
The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday urged Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to establish a special task team to investigate the ”complete breakdown” of financial and operational management in the Limpopo health department. The Auditor General issued the department with a 21-page qualified audit report for 2005/06.
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/ 21 November 2006
Fire raged on Tuesday at the Supreme Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after clashes between police and supporters of Jean-Pierre Bemba, who has filed a legal challenge after losing the country’s presidential election. Black smoke poured out of the court building at about 1pm local time.
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/ 21 November 2006
A majestic unbeaten 196 from captain Brian Lara put the West Indies in complete control of the second Test against Pakistan on Tuesday. The 37-year-old left hander stood on the brink of his ninth double century in Tests as the visitors piled up 509-5 by the close of play on the third day.
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/ 21 November 2006
South Africa coach Mickey Arthur has promised India’s batsmen a pace barrage in the second one-day international in Durban on Wednesday. ”We’re looking for pace and bounce, and it looks like that’s the type of pitch we will get,” Arthur told a news conference on Tuesday.
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/ 21 November 2006
The media walked out en bloc from a briefing due to be staged on Tuesday afternoon by the board of directors of the 2010 World Cup Local Organising Committee. The walkout was agreed upon when none of the board members had arrived for the briefing a matter of 70 minutes after the stipulated ”1pm sharp” starting time at the plush Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg.
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/ 21 November 2006
”Rogue elements” within law enforcement are apparently spreading disinformation about the Brett Kebble murder probe, the Mercury reported on Tuesday. ”It’s a total nightmare,” National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi told the media.
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/ 21 November 2006
South Africa on Tuesday urged the loser of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) presidential election to accept defeat, while giving the country’s first democratic poll in more than 40 years a broad seal of approval. South Africa’s Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George urged ”the people of [DRC] to accept the outcome of the elections”.
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/ 21 November 2006
Legislation on the Western Cape’s proposed fuel levy is expected to come into force in 2008, according to the provincial mini-budget tabled on Tuesday. Western Cape provincial minister of finance Lynne Brown first mooted the tax two years ago, saying then that the target date for implementation was this year, at 10c per litre.