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/ 10 January 2006
Four Johnnic Holdings Limited directors resigned from the company’s board on Tuesday following a change in its controlling shareholder. ”… We feel it is only proper to resign to enable the new controlling shareholder to appoint a new chairman and their own directors,” said Johnnic’s outgoing chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa.
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/ 10 January 2006
Internet downloading and MP3 players are creating a generation of people who do not seriously appreciate songs or musical performances, British researchers said on Tuesday. ”The accessibility of music has meant that it is taken for granted and does not require a deep emotional commitment once associated with music appreciation,” said music psychologist Adrian North.
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/ 10 January 2006
Burglaries, car thefts and other crimes have more than halved since Israelis began gluing themselves to television sets for news of their ailing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, police said on Tuesday. ”We have seen a fall of more than 50% in offences since Mr Sharon was admitted to the Hadassah” hospital in Jerusalem last Wednesday, said police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld.
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/ 10 January 2006
One of South Africa’s top runners, Collin Khoza (25) will run through extreme temperatures, overwhelming humidity and centuries of history when he takes part in the Mumbai leg of Standard Chartered Bank’s Greatest Race on Earth on Sunday in India.
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/ 10 January 2006
German consumer protection watchdog Stiftung Warentest warned on Tuesday of ”serious deficiencies” in security at four of the 12 to be used during the soccer World Cup finals starting in June. The study, presented at a news conference by one of its authors, Hubertus Primus, found that there was no plan to allow fans to enter the pitch in case of a mass panic.
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/ 10 January 2006
Iraq has vast hydrocarbon potential that could rival major producers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, but United States government analysts are predicting that Iraqi oil production development will remain thwarted for years to come. Its enormous reserves of an estimated 115-billion barrels of proven crude are the world’s third largest after those of the Saudi Kingdom and Canada.
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/ 10 January 2006
Ekurhuleni mayor Duma ka Nkosi says the process of renaming the Johannesburg International Airport to OR Tambo International is at an advanced stage, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. Ka Nkosi said a formal request had already been submitted to the departments of transport and arts and culture to effect the name change.
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/ 10 January 2006
At least 52 people have been taken ill with cholera in Tanzania’s commercial capital this month amid a drought that is plaguing East Africa, officials and health workers said on Tuesday. "Although nobody has died so far, it is worrisome that we are getting new cases almost daily despite mass health education programmes," said Dar es Salaam City Council spokesperson Gaston Makwembe.
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/ 10 January 2006
Kenya on Tuesday lamented its absence from the list of the world’s poorest nations whose debts were cancelled last year by the Group of Eight (G8) rich industrialised countries, saying it was being punished for good financial performance.
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/ 10 January 2006
A senior High Court judge urged Zimbabwe’s government to ease colonial era restrictions on the practice of witchcraft, state-run radio reported on Tuesday. Many in Zimbabwe retain strong beliefs in the healing power of spirit mediums along with the role of ancestral rites in the nation’s cultural life, Judge Maphios Cheda said on Monday.