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/ 28 December 2005
Bus subsidies cost the national Transport Department R2,17-billion in 2003/04, according to the department’s annual report for 2005. The report, tabled in Parliament, noted that Gauteng received the largest cut of the nine provinces — with R788-million — followed by KwaZulu-Natal with R452-million. The Western Cape received R380-million.
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/ 28 December 2005
The spot price of gold is expected to target new highs during January 2006, technical analysts for JP Morgan wrote on Wednesday. "The price action over the last few days has been encouraging with the yellow metal pushing back through $510/oz, but again this has been in thin trade and we need to really see some substance behind it," JP Morgan analysts wrote.
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/ 28 December 2005
The killing of Malaysian bomb maker Azahari Husin by Indonesian police may spark revenge attacks against the country’s president, Indonesia’s spy chief warned on Wednesday. Syamsir Siregar said that before his death, Azahari, and his compatriot Noordin Mohammad Top — who is still at large — had recruited an unspecified number of trained militants.
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/ 28 December 2005
The late Australian media mogul Kerry Packer knew he was dying late last week but refused further treatment, newspapers reported on Wednesday. Packer — listed by Forbes magazine this year as the 94th richest man in the world with a -billion fortune — died at his Sydney home on Monday evening at the age of 68.
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/ 28 December 2005
A thorough forensic audit was needed to investigate signs that fraud could have led to the massive fuel shortages of the past few weeks, media reports said on Wednesday. The president of the SA Institute for Corporate Fraud Management, Bart Henderson, said on Tuesday they had already called for the Scorpions to investigate the matter, and the request was apparently under serious consideration.
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/ 28 December 2005
Philippine prosecutors on Tuesday charged four American marines and their local driver with raping a Filipina after an evening drinking in a nightclub near the United States’s former Subic Bay navy base. The marines, who were on leave at the end of joint exercises with their Philippine counterparts at the time, met the woman in the nightclub, the charges state.
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/ 28 December 2005
Israeli warplanes early on Wednesday staged a raid on a Palestinian base in the southern outskirts of Beirut, a military spokesperson said. "This raid is a riposte to the rocket attack against the north of Israel," he declared. "We consider this kind of attack serious." Seven Katyusha rockets were fired at north Israel from southern Lebanon overnight on Wednesday, Lebanese police said.
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/ 27 December 2005
A man briefly appeared in the Plettenberg Bay Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a six-year-old Johannesburg boy in the coastal resort town. Inspector Elgin Antonie earlier said the man on Christmas Day confessed to the killing. He was arrested on Christmas Eve.
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/ 27 December 2005
Israeli air raids struck buildings and roads in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with the army poised to implement a security zone in the Palestinian territory intended to thwart militant rocket attacks. Army helicopters fired missiles, heavily damaging offices connected to the ruling Fatah movement and roads in the northern part of the territory.
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/ 27 December 2005
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has apologised for unintentionally dumping toxic chrome into the Crocodile River near Brits earlier this month. ”The IDC commits itself to cooperating with the authorities to minimise the consequences,” the state development company said.