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The JSE roared to another record high on Thursday morning, with higher commodity prices and a softer rand boosting resources stocks. Futures-related buying ahead of the afternoon’s close-out further helped the bourse. By 11.58am, the all-share index was up 0,88% at 16 125,06 after earlier reaching a record high of 16 141,87.
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/ 15 September 2005
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) announced on Thursday that the disciplinary inquiry into alleged sexual harassment by managing director Johan Prinsloo has been postponed. Saru’s lawyers had advised the union to proceed with the disciplinary hearing, the Daily Dispatch reported on Thursday.
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/ 15 September 2005
United States President George Bush prepared to give a speech in Louisiana on Thursday outlining government plans to rebuild the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina, as the disaster death toll passed the 700 mark. Meanwhile, the south-eastern US coastline was hit by another hurricane, Ophelia.
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/ 15 September 2005
Israel’s High Court ordered the government on Thursday to find a different route for the West Bank barrier in the region of the Alfe Menashe settlement in the northern West Bank. The unanimous ruling by the nine-judge panel effectively means the section of the fence already built in the area has to be rebuilt.
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/ 15 September 2005
Egyptian Culture Minister, Farouq Hosny, has presented his resignation in an indication of accepting responsibility over a fire in a local earlier this month, state-run newspapers said on Thursday. The front-page items said Hosny put his resignation at the disposal of President Hosni Mubarak.
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/ 15 September 2005
Tuition at 58 schools in Uitenhage, Rocklands and Despatch has come to a standstill because of a go-slow by teachers, The Herald Online reported on Thursday, and the action could spread to Port Elizabeth schools. The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union’s western region began the go-slow about a week ago.
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/ 15 September 2005
Robert Wise, director of top Hollywood musicals West Side Story and The Sound of Music, died overnight at his Los Angeles home, days after his 91st birthday, an official of the San Sebastian film festival said on Thursday. The death of Wise cast a pall over the festival, which was scheduled to pay a special homage to the director who also made Star Trek, the Motion Picture.
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/ 15 September 2005
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) and its publishing partner Highbury Safika Media on Wednesday dismissed media reports of a breakdown in their relationship and of pending legal action over the trade name of SA Rugby magazine. ”We have made no threats,” said Saru CEO Johan Prinsloo.
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/ 15 September 2005
LJ van Zyl, South Africa’s brilliant 20-year-old 400m hurdler, has escalated from sixth to joint third place in the latest International Association of Athletics Federations world rankings released by the world body in Monaco on Wednesday. The highest-ranked South African athlete is Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (second in the 800m).
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/ 15 September 2005
United States Open champion Michael Campbell said on Wednesday he found it strange that so many top players had turned down the chance to win the largest first prize in golf at this week’s World Match Play Championship. The 42nd annual edition of the autumn classic, offering a first prize of £1-million, begins on Thursday.