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/ 28 February 2006
South Africa’s sassy young R&B enigma Tsakani "TK" Mhinga was found dead in a hotel room in Bryanston, north of Johannesburg on Monday. The grim discovery was made by a staff member of the City Lodge in Bryanston. There was "no evidence of a struggle", said Captain Schalk Bornman of the South African Police Service.
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/ 28 February 2006
It’s very good-looking, it’s extremely well specced, it feels well built for the money, with excellent ride and handling, and it’s affordable. On the downside, the Proton brand has yet to gain the confidence of the South African public, and the Savvy is let down by a lethargic 1,2-litre engine that doesn’t deliver what the sporty styling promises.
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/ 28 February 2006
How serious is South Africa about halting massive, ethnically targeted human destruction in Darfur in western Sudan? Is President Thabo Mbeki prepared to support the robust, international force required to protect millions of vulnerable people and the increasingly tenuous humanitarian lifeline upon which they depend?
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/ 28 February 2006
Larry Williams hit headlines when in one year he traded $10 000 into $101-million in the 1987 World Cup Trading Championships. Ten years later his home-schooled 16-year-old daughter made the news for winning the same competition, trading her $10 000 into more than $110 000. He is currently in South Africa conducting seminars around the country.
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/ 28 February 2006
Trade experts say the United States is demanding far deeper market access than South Africa is willing to give, particularly in the area of services that are covered by regulatory protection rather than tariffs. South African business appears to be waking up late to the fact that the country may be walking away from a free trade deal with the US.
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/ 28 February 2006
Five candidates are vying for the Ugandan presidency, while close on 1Â 000 are contesting Parliamentary seats in 214 constituencies as well as the 69 districts which are reserved for women. Miria Obote, wife of former head of state Milton Obote, is the Uganda People’s Congress presidential candidate.
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/ 28 February 2006
"The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class represents the pinnacle of car-making excellence to the car-buying public. It is a blend of technology that Mercedes-Benz has been perfecting over decades. The technology on the new S-Class is by far its most astounding attribute and one can only hope that, such expensive technology becomes commonplace," writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 28 February 2006
”It received just a few column centimetres in a couple of papers, but the story I read last week looks to me like a glimpse of the future. A company in Ohio called CityWatcher has implanted radio transmitters into the arms of two of its workers. The implants ensure that only they can enter the strongroom,” writes George Monbiot.
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/ 28 February 2006
Sometimes it was hard to work out if Jaguar’s decision to launch the new XK in the exotic winelands around Cape Town — home to some of the best driving roads on the planet, as well as the odd pushy baboon — was a sign of supreme confidence, or a lack of it.
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