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/ 13 January 2005
Ernie Els has played before the largest galleries this week at the Sony Open, in part because he is trying to become the first player in its 40-year history to win three straight times — and because the Big Easy has been hanging around the Big Wiesy. In the first full-field event, 15-year-old Michelle Wie remains the star attraction.
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/ 13 January 2005
The High Court in Zimbabwe has slashed by three years the jail term imposed by a lower court on the alleged mastermind behind a plot to stage a coup in oil rich Equatorial Guinea, his lawyer said on Thursday. Briton Simon Mann was sentenced to seven years in prison by a magistrate after he was convicted of trying to illegally buy weapons that prosecutors argued were to be used to topple long-time President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in Malabo.
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/ 13 January 2005
Until the tsunami arrived Mr Saiful was the caretaker of Banda Aceh’s junior high school three. He was responsible for tidying up. But on Wednesday he found himself giving a class in religious education. ”I’m teaching the students about 7th-century Islam,” he said. But did he know anything about it? ”Oh yes. I used to be a student myself.”
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/ 13 January 2005
The share price of South African clothing retailer Edcon rose by 2% or R5,50 in early trade on Thursday after the group reiterated that it expects its headline earnings per share for the year to the end of March 2005 to be 60% higher than those of the previous year. Edcon also reported a 24% rise in sales and a 26% rise in gross profit for the 13 weeks to January 1.
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/ 13 January 2005
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal on Wednesday unconditionally approved the merger between Vodacom Service Provider Company (VSP) and Tiscali. Italian group Tiscali is disposing of its interest in South Africa. The Vodacom Group — via its wholly-owned subsidiary VSP — will be acquiring Tiscali’s cellular telephony business.
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/ 13 January 2005
South Africa’s short-term insurance industry needs to encourage more claims suppliers to become black economic empowerment (BEE) compliant, according to the country’s second-biggest short-term insurer, Mutual & Federal. "There are currently just not enough claims suppliers available that are BEE-compliant," it says.
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/ 13 January 2005
The bodies of Australian diver Dave Shaw and South African Deon Dreyer were recovered from the world’s third-deepest freshwater cave, Boesmansgat, in the Northern Cape on Wednesday. Shaw went missing on Saturday while trying to recover the remains of Dreyer, a diver who blacked out and drowned in the cave while diving there in 1994.
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/ 13 January 2005
Six textile factories have closed and their foreign owners fled Lesotho, leaving about 6Â 650 workers jobless in the small mountain kingdom in Southern Africa, the Factory Workers’ Union said on Wednesday. The union’s secretary general, Billy Macaefa, blamed the closures on the end of worldwide textile quotas that limited competition from cheap Asian exports to the United States and European Union.
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/ 13 January 2005
Mark Thatcher, set to plead guilty in a plea bargaining deal to charges of bankrolling an alleged African coup plot, first hit the headlines in 1982 when he disappeared in the Sahara desert for six days during the Paris to Dakar car rally. As it turned out, Thatcher and his co-driver had simply broken an axle on their Peugeot 504.
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/ 13 January 2005
To the dustmen of Frankfurt, they were a mess that needed to be cleared from the streets of their spotless city. The yellow plastic sheets were swiftly scooped up, crushed and burned. But the diligence of the rubbish collectors was little consolation to the city’s prestigious art academy, which is now ruing the loss of an important work.