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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.
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/ 7 September 2005
A new iron curtain has emerged between East and West, triggered by Aids.
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/ 7 September 2005
First came singles bars, dating services, and click-and-date websites. Then young urban professional searching for a little tenderness turned to speed dating. Now a pair of French cooking schools are blazing another, somewhat less frenetic, trail in the quest for modern romance: ”cook-dating”.
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/ 7 September 2005
Kim Clijsters’s never-say-die philosophy kept her bid for her first Grand Slam title on track on Tuesday as she rallied to beat Wimbledon champion Venus Williams in three sets and book a US Open semifinal berth. Clijsters was down a set and trailing 2-4 in the second, looking tentative in the face of Williams’s power and perhaps in the face of yet another Grand Slam disappointment.