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/ 12 October 2005
The sex crimes trial of two Pretoria advocates was waylaid in the city’s high court on Wednesday with an application by one of the accused to be allowed to give evidence. Dirk Prinsloo sought to take the stand to explain why he wanted his trial to be separated from that of co-accused Cezanne Visser.
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/ 12 October 2005
Old Mutual, the United Kingdom- and South Africa-listed international financial-services group, has published the prospectus for its 43,5-billion Swedish kronor (R38-billion) offer for Swedish financial-services group Skandia, Old Mutual announced on Wednesday.
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/ 12 October 2005
Spot platinum on Wednesday moved to a 25-and-a-half-year high of $944,50 a troy ounce on fund-buying of the metal. Also on Wednesday, the spot price of gold moved above $480 a troy ounce for the first time in almost 18 years on fund-buying of the metal.
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/ 12 October 2005
United Kingdom- and South Africa-listed SABMiller plc has completed its $7,8-billion acquisition of a controlling 71,8% interest in Bavaria SA, South America’s second-largest brewer, the company announced on Wednesday. The merger creates the world’s second-largest brewing company by volume.
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/ 12 October 2005
The ”Hand of God” may have nothing to do with it. But Premier Soccer League (PSL) CEO Trevor Phillips has more than a hand in the PSL’s initiative to bring Argentinian soccer icon Diego Maradona to South Africa as a special guest during a proposed international four-club tournament early in 2006.
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/ 12 October 2005
Dynamos and Thembisa Classic laboured to a 1-1 draw in their Premier Soccer League match played in front of a partisan crowd in the Giyani Stadium on Tuesday night. The sides went into the break scoreless, as the strikers from both sides managed to fluff whatever chances were created.
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/ 12 October 2005
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will donate revenue from the Super Series Test match between Australia and the World XI to the Red Cross relief effort for the earthquake disaster in Pakistan instead of holding a separate charity match, ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed told a news conference on Wednesday.
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/ 12 October 2005
The JSE was a mixed bag in noon trade on Wednesday, with London-listed brewer SABMiller leading the downside as the market reacted to its trading statement issued before the opening. On the upside, resources benefited from higher commodity prices and a slightly weaker rand.
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/ 12 October 2005
Sven-Goran Eriksson has reiterated his faith in the England players who have made such an inept start to this season, signalling that he is unlikely to make significant changes to his first XI before the World Cup kicks off in June. Eriksson broke with his normal pattern of behaviour on Saturday.
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/ 12 October 2005
Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50-million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn on Wednesday. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10-million people a year.