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/ 13 February 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy could implement a retail petrol-price cut of about 12 cents per litre (c/l) on March 1, given recent trends in both the rand exchange rate and oil prices. The retail petrol price is adjusted monthly on the first Wednesday of the month in accordance with the previous averaging period’s over- or under-recovery.
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/ 13 February 2006
Money doesn’t buy happiness, and now there’s a study to prove it. Australian researchers found that people in well-off Sydney are among the most miserable in the country, while those in some of the poorest areas are much more satisfied with their lives.
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/ 13 February 2006
Researchers scouring the remote forests of the African island nation of Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders, are more diverse than previously thought. Assassin spiders, which grow to less than 0,3cm long, are notorious for stabbing helpless spiders with their sharp, venom-filled fangs.
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/ 13 February 2006
Here lies the forgotten history of New York. And here. And over there. All across the city’s five boroughs, old cemeteries are tucked away, some visible but ignored by passers-by, some in the shadow of latter-day high-rises, some so remote as to be overlooked entirely.
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/ 13 February 2006
The South African Treasury should set aside about R1,1-billion a year to increase the pace of land reform and protect the principle of willing buyer, willing seller, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance in its alternative Budget released ahead of Wednesday’s national Budget by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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/ 13 February 2006
Trade unions locked in a dispute with state-owned Transnet over restructuring have postponed their strike in the Eastern Cape until Friday to give the labour structures in the province enough time to finalise logistics and other outstanding issues, it emerged on Monday.
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/ 13 February 2006
It was 1894, and the chief physician at the Battle Creek Sanatorium and his younger brother were experimenting in the hospital’s kitchen, trying to create a better-tasting replacement for the nutritious but bland bread served to patients. Instead, Dr John Harvey Kellogg and William Keith Kellogg ended up accidentally inventing flaked cereal.
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Lawyers for Jacob Zuma have asked Transvaal Provincial Division Judge President Bernard Ngoepe to recuse himself from the former deputy president’s rape trial. Advocate Kemp Kemp said the reason for the recusal was because of past events, a reference to Ngoepe issuing the Scorpions a search warrant for several Zuma premises as well as those of his lawyers and associates.
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/ 13 February 2006
Anglo Platinum has announced a significant improvement in headline earnings for the year ended 31 December 2005. Headline earnings per share, attributable to ordinary shareholders, rose by 63,1% to R18,28 a share, it said on Monday. Contributing factors included higher United States dollar prices of metals sold, increased sales volumes, and gains on the repatriation of US dollar revenue.
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/ 13 February 2006
Ancient paintings which allegedly prove that the Chinese invented the game of golf up to 1Â 000 years ago are to go on display in Hong Kong in February, a news report said on Monday. The pictures from the 13th and 14th centuries show Chinese noblemen hitting balls into holes with clubs that look remarkably similar to modern golf clubs.