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/ 14 September 2005
The profile of well-heeled South Africans is changing dramatically and financial institutions need to recognise these changes and accommodate them, according to the CEO of First National Bank (FNB) Private Clients, Eric Enslin. He was speaking at the introduction of FNB’s new private-banking initiative on Wednesday.
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/ 14 September 2005
First-half goals from Florent Sinama-Pongolle and Luis Garcia on Tuesday earned defending champion Liverpool a 2-1 victory over Real Betis in a Champions League Group G match. Striker Sinama-Pongolle scored in the second minute after he controlled a long ball from acting captain Jamie Carragher and delivered a deft chip over Betis goalkeeper Toni Doblas.
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/ 14 September 2005
At a time when Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer have tried to figure out how to retire from tournament golf, Rosie Jones thought she had it made. The 13-time winner has said this would be her final year on the United States LPGA Tour, and it appeared to be a perfectly scripted farewell.
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/ 14 September 2005
South African construction and building materials company Group Five on Wednesday announced that economic empowerment rating agency Empowerdex has given its proposed black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction a score of more than 80%.
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/ 14 September 2005
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) will try to keep services going during a pay strike that began on Wednesday. The CCMA said that while it cannot guarantee services, a large number of CCMA commissioners are engaged as independent service providers and are not party to the dispute.
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/ 14 September 2005
Sony is aiming for a comeback in the global television industry with a new range of flat-screen televisions that it hopes will boost its share of a market now dominated by domestic and overseas rivals. The Japanese electronics giant will begin selling eight new televisions — both liquid crystal display (LCD) screen and rear-projection — under a new brand, "Bravia," on October 1 in Japan.
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/ 14 September 2005
A frustrated India toiled all day at Queens Sports Club on the first day of the first Test against Zimbabwe in an unsuccessful bid to rattle through the hosts batting. Zimbabwe ended the day on 265-7, one of their best performances in Test cricket for some time, with captain Tatenda Taibu unbeaten on 61 — his eighth half century in Tests.
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/ 14 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s main opposition is to decide this week whether it will boycott elections to a newly created senate to be held later this year, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. But the Movement for Democratic Change, which currently holds 41 seats in the 150-seat Parliament, has already dismissed the upper house as a distraction from Zimbabwe’s mounting economic and political troubles.
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/ 14 September 2005
Diplomats at the United Nations finally reached agreement on Tuesday night on a watered-down document to reform the organisation and tackle poverty just hours before leaders arrived for the start of a world summit. This final draft fell far short of ambitious proposals for an overhaul of the UN which was set out earlier this year by Kofi Annan, the Secretary General.
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/ 14 September 2005
The West African state of Ghana is giving its widow’s mite to the United States following the Hurricane Katrina disaster — a gift of cocoa drinks and chocolate. Ghana, the poor West African country that is the world’s second largest producer of cocoa, said it was donating 000 of cocoa drinks and chocolates to victims of the hurricane.