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Australia will launch an aggressive, all-out attack in the crucial final Ashes Test, captain Ricky Ponting pledged on Wednesday. Fighting to avoid the humiliation of being the Australian skipper who lost the coveted urn for the first time in 16 years, Ponting said he is counting on the team’s proven ability to lift itself for the big games.
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/ 7 September 2005
Not all HIV-positive South African National Defence Force members are on anti-retrovirals, says Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota. He told Democratic Alliance MP Moulana Sayedali-Shah on Tuesday that only HIV positive members with a CD4 count of less than 200 or members displaying symptoms of an HIV/Aids defining disease, were eligible for anti-retroviral medication.
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/ 7 September 2005
The JSE roared to a record high in early trade on Wednesday as the buying that started on Tuesday continued. Dealers said that futures-related activity ahead of next Thursday’s closeout, firmer world markets and generally positive sentiment
were acting in concert to boost the local bourse.
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/ 7 September 2005
Zimbabwe is headed for another "gloomy" agricultural season because many farmers do not have access to fertiliser, chemicals and seed, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. An official from the fertiliser industry said companies have not been given the foreign currency needed to buy inputs to manufacture fertiliser.
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/ 7 September 2005
Mining group Metorex saw a massive boost in headline earnings for the year ended June — from just under R5-million a year ago to almost R27,7-million. This translated into headline earnings per share of 13,6 cents versus 2,8 cents a share previously.
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/ 7 September 2005
Indonesia on Wednesday played down fears that pirates could link up with terrorists to wreak havoc in the Malacca Strait but pledged to do its part to ensure security in the vital shipping lane. Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda, speaking at the opening of a two-day meeting with Singapore and the International Maritime Organisation, said pirates and terrorists had different goals.
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/ 7 September 2005
United States software giant Microsoft has made a new appeal against an European Union competition ruling against it in March 2004 for abusing its dominant market position, the company said on Wednesday. The European Commission last year fined the software group a record €497-million.
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/ 7 September 2005
Banking and financial services group Sasfin has posted another excellent result, with headline earnings up by 41,1% to R85-million for the year to June 30 2005. More than half of the group’s earnings were generated by the Commercial Finance division, which experienced strong demand from growing businesses.
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/ 7 September 2005
Blue Bulls rugby player Etienne Botha died in a car accident on the N1 near Pretoria early on Wednesday, a spokesperson at the Loftus Versveld stadium confirmed. ”We can’t say anything else,” she said. ”Everyone has just gone into a meeting.” According to police, the vehicle left the road at around 5am.
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/ 7 September 2005
Sasol has reacted with "astonishment" to the Democratic Alliance’s proposed plan to reduce the price of fuel. The DA on Tuesday called on petro-chemical giant Sasol to pay between R2,5-billion and R4-billion in an additional "supertax" to bring down government fuel tax between 15 cents and 20 cents a litre.