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/ 29 September 2005
So, the South African economy has the legs to thrive in difficult times, job creation is cyclical in the short term and a year is a very long time in the lives of monetary policy authorities. These may be key lessons to learn in a week of mixed fortunes for the economy and markets.
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/ 29 September 2005
When Dorsbult went dark this week, the manne just assumed that the mayor had hired Johannesburg’s municipality to run the town’s power supply; but at last a scouting party was sent, carrying lanterns and pitchforks, to the Dorsbult power station just to check. It quickly became clear that some catastrophe had taken place.
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/ 29 September 2005
Johannesburg’s City Power chief executive Mogwailane Mohlala will leave the utility in January, a spokesperson confirmed on Thursday. ”His contract will end in January,” Sol Masolo said. ”He wants to pursue business interests and an agreement was reached with the board,” Masolo told the South African Press Association.
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/ 28 September 2005
”If a plumber doesn’t join a pipe correctly, you have a leak; if an electrician doesn’t do it properly, the light doesn’t work. If [metro police officers] make the wrong decision, people get denied their freedoms, or they die if we make the wrong decisions.” Police chief Robert McBride believes his officers have serious authority, and with it should come stricter codes of conduct.
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/ 28 September 2005
Recently, an uproar was created when the details of late Yfm DJ Khabzela’s sexual behaviour were published in a new biography penned by Liz McGregor. Khabzela, who fashioned himself as a role model for the youth, consciously made the wrong decisions about his sexual health. Despite having the relevant knowledge about HIV at his disposal, he knowingly infected many women with the virus.
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/ 28 September 2005
Hundreds of thousands of residents along the Gulf of Mexico coast remained homeless on Wednesday after two devastating hurricanes as US leaders fought over the government’s response to the disaster. The death toll from Saturday’s Hurricane Rita rose to 10 on Tuesday, while the number of dead from Katrina passed 1 100.
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/ 28 September 2005
A British university has launched a three-year degree course in the hunt for life beyond the planet Earth. The University of Glamorgan this week launched what it said is Britain’s first undergraduate course in astrobiology, the search for extraterrestrial life.
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/ 28 September 2005
An infamous swimming-pool-based clinch from the much-criticised 1995 film Showgirls received the dubious honour on Wednesday of being named the worst sex scene in the history of cinema. Second place was awarded to Damage, a 1992 European art-house film starring Jeremy Irons.
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/ 28 September 2005
Slain mining magnate Brett Kebble’s brother, Guy, has called on his killers to ”stand up and be counted” and not act cowardly following the Tuesday-night killing of his brother, whom he described as ”a brilliant man”. Asked about the motive, former judge Willem Heath — who is a friend of the Kebbles — said the killing points to a hijacking at this stage.