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/ 10 February 2006
A hot-air balloon carrying safari-goers over Kenya’s famed wildlife-rich Maasai Mara National Reserve crashed on Friday, killing the British pilot and a female Belgian tourist, officials said. The 11 other passengers in the balloon — eight Canadians and three Belgians — were injured in the crash, according to police.
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/ 10 February 2006
Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool has again raised the prospect of a provincial development levy to boost funds for subsidised housing. Speaking at the opening of the provincial legislature on Friday, Rasool said it has become clear that the current subsidy budget is inadequate for growing housing demand.
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/ 10 February 2006
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota must hand over certain documents about the multibillion-rand arms deal to Richard Young, whose company CCII Systems was one of the losing bidders, the Pretoria High Court decided on Friday. Judge Brian Southwood turned down Lekota’s application for leave to appeal against a judgement given last year.
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/ 10 February 2006
Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Anton Rupert, who died in January, has been described as ”a man of worth” by President Thabo Mbeki. In his regular internet column on Friday, ANC Today, Mbeki described Rupert as ”as an outstanding son of our people”.
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/ 10 February 2006
During a protest outside the Danish embassy in Pretoria on Friday, South African Muslims have demanded an apology from the Danish government for the publication in one of its newspapers of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
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/ 10 February 2006
Finance chiefs from the world’s leading industrial nations kick off two days of discussions in Moscow on Friday focused squarely on mounting Western concern over the Kremlin’s swelling clout in world oil and gas markets. Taking its first turn at the helm of the Group of Eight, Russia has set a diverse agenda for the meeting.
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/ 10 February 2006
The government is to reach out to South Africans living in New Zealand to improve links between the two countries, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki met New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark, who paid him a courtesy call in Pretoria ahead of the Progressive Governance Summit that both will be attending over the weekend.
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/ 10 February 2006
Both tax relief and relaxation of exchange controls can be expected when Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel unveils his 2006/07 Budget next Wednesday. At a briefing in Sandton, Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt said the numbers from November’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement showed that the minister would need R437-billion for the coming fiscal year.
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/ 10 February 2006
By 2050 China will have eradicated poverty, established itself as a world power in science and lifted the average lifespan of its billion-plus citizens to 80 years, according to blueprints for the future published on Thursday. If the country can maintain its current 9% rate of economic growth, the reports predict the average income in China will rise to 300 a month, about 10 times the current level.
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/ 10 February 2006
Anglican teenagers in the Western Cape are almost as sexually active as their peers outside the church, according to a survey reported in the latest issue of the South African Medical Journal. The survey was carried out by researchers from the Cape Town-based Fiklela Aids project and the University of Stellenbosch’s theology department.