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/ 1 February 2005
Listed black economic empowerment fishing, medical equipment and information technology group Sekunjalo Investments has acquired 81,56% of the entire issued capital in the computer company Synergy Computing. The acquisition of Synergy boosts Sekunjalo’s strategic growth in its IT portfolio
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/ 1 February 2005
Daimler Chrysler received a gentle tap on the wrist from Tokyo Sexwale on Monday for implying that he also owned one of their R3-million luxury Maybach vehicles. This contrasts with fellow businessman Cyril Ramaphosa’s response, which was to slap a law suit on the company.
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/ 1 February 2005
The Sudanese government should be referred to the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity in Darfur, a United Nations-commissioned report has concluded. But the study, which is expected to be debated by the UN security council on Tuesday, falls short of describing the situation in the western region of Sudan as genocide.
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/ 1 February 2005
Paul Sakajian was holding his video camera and jumping up and down. ”Oh my God, he is in that car. Damn that tree,” he said as his view was blocked at the crucial moment. Sheltered from the morning sun by a black umbrella and greeted by Thomas Mesereau, his lawyer, Jackson loped into the court wearing a white suit.
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/ 1 February 2005
Iraq’s interim Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi, reached out to the country’s ethnic and religious minorities on Monday and called for a spirit of national unity in the wake of Sunday’s election. Allawi said the government would include groups that feared marginalisation under what is likely to be a Shia-dominated administration.
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/ 1 February 2005
The retirement fund industry can, and should, use its R1-trillion muscle to help fund infrastructure development and job creation through socially responsible investments (SRI). An actuarial science industry initiative, a publication called <i>SRI Focus</i>, calls on fund managers and pension fund trustees to help fund development without compromising their members’ interests or returns.
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/ 1 February 2005
”The transformation of the pharmaceutical industry, both in terms of ensuring the quality of medicine and reducing prices of drugs at manufacturing, distribution and retail industry levels has been the most challenging part of the transformation process in the health sector so far.” Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang reflects.
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/ 1 February 2005
”Back in the Seventies and Eighties, old school friends and other whites of my acquaintance who were perturbed by my anti-apartheid activities would ask why I was ‘giving my life up for the blacks’. I would explain that I wasn’t doing what I was doing ‘for the blacks’, but for a society free of oppression and exploitation, and that was also concerned with the rights of women and children,” writes Maurice Smithers.
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/ 1 February 2005
Labour disputes in southern China’s booming Guangdong province are becoming increasingly prominent as an unprecedented army of 30-million migrant workers clamours for better conditions and treatment. This astonishing influx of cheap labour has been the engine of China’s capitalist miracle, officials say, making Guangdong the nation’s most prosperous region.
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/ 1 February 2005
About 120 children were affected by the closure of three illegal crèches in central Johannesburg on Tuesday morning, the city’s metro police said. Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the crèches were shut down for not complying with fire-safety requirements.