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The JSE was weaker at midday on Wednesday, with resources and mining counters under pressure from lower commodities prices. Gold and platinum prices touched respective highs of $500 an ounce and $1 000/oz on Tuesday, but have since retreated.
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/ 30 November 2005
The Department of Foreign Affairs has been in talks with Equatorial Guinea’s representative in Pretoria in an effort to secure the release of two air-crew members stranded there as pawns in a dispute between aviation companies. Spokesperson Nomafela Kota confirmed this on Wednesday.
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More than 200Â 000 people were left without power on Tuesday on Spain’s Canary Islands after Tropical Storm Delta wreaked havoc on the popular winter tourist destination, killing at least seven people and causing serious damage. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Epsilon is centred about 1Â 280km east of Bermuda.
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In the sandy compound of his extended family’s home, six-year-old Manuel Rafael is playing with his cousins. He doesn’t know he is HIV-positive, and doesn’t understand his grandmother’s explanation in Portuguese about how he could have died but for the anti-retroviral treatment he began when he was just a year old.
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Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, who has been in power since 1967, was re-elected for seven more years after winning 79,2% of the votes cast in Sunday’s election, the country’s interior minister said late on Tuesday. Voter turnout was at 63,3% of the 570 000 Gabonese who were eligible to vote in the presidential contest.
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<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> She’s dropped the political posturing that grabbed headlines when she did <i>American Life</i>; <i>Confessions on a Dance Floor</i> is Madonna for the party people, writes Riaan Wolmarans. We also review Franz Ferdinand’s new release.
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South African athletes won four gold medals on the second day of the 2005 Pacific School Games in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Jan (JP) Hoffman, world youth shot-put champion and one of the top athletes at the meeting, won the discus for boys in the 17-to-19 category with a good distance of 48,43m.
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South Africa captain John Smit received a six-week ban in France on Tuesday for striking French counterpart Jerome Thion and fracturing his larynx in the 26-20 defeat last Saturday. Smit’s suspension — which he will not appeal against — will start on January 14 next year, the opening day of the new season in South Africa.
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The Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary committee have ruled he is no angel and fined Mamelodi Sundowns’ Argentinian coach, Angel Cappa, a whopping R50 000 for his role in a fracas with Supersport United coach Pitso Mosimane during the red-hot recent Pretoria PSL derby at Loftus Versfeld.
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Portugal’s football clubs have produced top players such as Luis Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo, but they are facing their biggest financial crisis in years, which has left some teams struggling to stay afloat. The majority of the nation’s 18 premier league teams currently owe their players back wages of between one and five months.