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/ 17 November 2005
The JSE was looking robust in noon trade on Thursday, benefiting from a higher gold price, firmer world markets and solid corporate results. A stronger rand did little to dampen the bourse’s spirits. By 12.02pm, the all-share index advanced 0,96%. Resources rallied 1,92% and the gold-mining index jumped 2,39%.
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/ 17 November 2005
South Africa’s moral-regeneration movement is about positive values and not only about fighting corruption, says Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. She said the movement — previously headed by Jacob Zuma — ”was established as a partnership of all of South Africans to promote positive values in our country”.
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/ 17 November 2005
South African convenience food company Famous Brands has concluded a transaction with listed King Consolidated Holdings to acquire its complement of 38 Bimbo’s franchise agreements linked specifically to Engen Petroleum Company forecourt sites. The intention is to convert these sites to Steers restaurants.
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/ 17 November 2005
Hearings into Liberian presidential candidate George Weah’s claims of vote fraud opened amid confusion on Wednesday, when his lawyers failed to deliver witnesses or documents to back up allegations he was cheated of a rightful win in November 8 polls. Weah’s supporters have held three days of mostly peaceful protests.
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/ 17 November 2005
Australians were urged on Thursday not to panic and fear a bio-terrorist attack after callers to Sydney radio stations reported glow-in-the-dark pork chops in their fridges. The New South Wales Food Authority said it regularly receives sightings of glowing food.
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/ 17 November 2005
Listed retailer Mr Price has reported a 52% rise in diluted headline earnings per share for the six months to end-September 2005 to 46,5 cents from 30,6 cents a year earlier. The company declared an interim distribution of 24,3 cents per share, up from 13,2 cents at the halfway point in 2004, reducing its distribution cover to two times earnings from 2,4 times in the year-earlier period.
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/ 17 November 2005
International rugby officials have a choice between traditional strongholds and a new Asian frontier when they select the host country on Thursday for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. South Africa, New Zealand and Japan are the candidates to stage the sport’s seventh world championship.
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/ 17 November 2005
Russian Nikolay Davydenko hopes to take advantage of a depleted field after making it to the semifinals of the season-ending Masters Cup. Davydenko will be the highest-ranked player in the semifinals behind two-time defending champion Roger Federer.
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/ 17 November 2005
Flyhalf Meyer Bosman will make his South Africa rugby debut in a new halves pairing with Free State teammate Michael Claassens against Wales on Saturday at the Millennium Stadium. The 20-year-old Bosman replaces Andre Pretorius, who injured his ankle during the 34-23 win in Argentina on November 5.
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/ 17 November 2005
A British woman is thought to have become the oldest person in the country to get baptised, after a 101-year wait to be blessed at the baptismal font. Ivy Smith, from Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, southern England, had always thought she was too old to undergo the blessing.