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/ 22 February 2005
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/197779/special_rep_icon_template.gif" align=left>Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has been urged by the official opposition Democratic Alliance to focus his Budget — on Wednesday — on job creation. The DA said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon that the national Budget "should be the most important job-creation tool in government’s box".
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/ 22 February 2005
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/197779/special_rep_icon_template.gif" align=left>Higher-than-expected government revenue growth means Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has R14-billion to allocate when he announces the 2005/06 Budget on Wednesday, Old Mutual Asset Managers (Omam) economist Rian le Roux told a media briefing on Tuesday.
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/ 22 February 2005
Effective policing and social crime prevention programmes are making Gauteng a safer place, but there is still a lot to be done, said Community Safety MEC Firoz Cachalia on Monday. ”Levels of crime are still too high so we cannot announce victory yet,” he said at the media briefing in Johannesburg.
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/ 22 February 2005
The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, today paid tribute to George Bush’s leadership in the Middle East, saying there was a real prospect of peace in the region. Speaking in Brussels after breakfast talks with the US president, Blair said there was a ”renewed sense of vigour and optimism”.
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/ 22 February 2005
Retired top South African referee Andre Watson has lauded the Sanzar executive committee on its decision to scrap the requirement to appoint franchise-neutral referees for local derbies in the Vodacom Rugby Super 12 contest. Sanzar said the decision comes into effect this week when the competition kicks off in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
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/ 22 February 2005
Egyptian doctors have successfully operated on a two-headed baby, removing the second head and neck to leave a normal baby girl after the successful operation, surgeons said on Saturday. "The operation lasted 15 hours and it was a complete success," said hospital director Nazif Hefnawi, in the delta governorate of Banha.
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/ 22 February 2005
An Australian trout farm announced a Aus$1 000 dollar (R4 600) reward on Monday for the capture of a giant eel baptised "Nessie’s offspring" that has suddenly appeared in breeding ponds and begun eating up the fish. Visitors who have seen the creature said it is about 4m long with a head the size of a football.
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/ 22 February 2005
A mystery man in a surgical mask and cap bought the most expensive car licence plate sold in Hong Kong since 1997, paying HK$7,1-million (about R5,3-million), a Hong Kong newspaper said on Monday. The winner bought the plate number 12 — which sounds like "certainly easy" in Cantonese.
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/ 22 February 2005
It was billed as a chance for British Minister of Finance Gordon Brown to quiz China’s young elite about what they want from the future. And he got his answer — more Harry Potter memorabilia. In a lengthy question-and-answer session, Brown, currently on a three-day visit to China, chatted to about a dozen teenage pupils, all star English students.
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/ 22 February 2005
As Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo made his reputation as the architect of the government’s campaign to silence criticism, and still had time to get his own jingles aired on state television. Moyo was fired over the weekend, but he has left a legacy of laws that effectively deny government critics a means of disseminating information.