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/ 21 February 2005
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/197779/special_rep_icon_template.gif" align=left>The South African government should stop cutting the personal and company income-tax rate but value-added tax (VAT) should be cut by 1% from 14%, according to the People’s Budget, presented by the South African Council of Churches, the South African Non-Governmental Coalition and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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/ 21 February 2005
Listed clothing food and homeware retailer Woolworths has successfully completed the first-ever securitisation of its in-store credit card with the issue and private placement of R1,9-billion in AAA-rated notes, the company said on Monday. The group’s new securitisation programme, Account on Us, issued four tranches of notes.
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/ 21 February 2005
Hunter S Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself on Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67. ”Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family,” Juan Thompson said in a statement.
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/ 21 February 2005
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Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik will tell his version of events but without the support of his friend Deputy President Jacob Zuma when he enters the witness box in the Durban High Court on Monday.
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/ 21 February 2005
Roger Federer triumphed in his 15th straight final without a loss on Sunday as he shut down the 782Â 250-euros Rotterdam Open. The Swiss world number one, who claimed 11 titles in 2004, now has two for this season — both at the expense of his 19th ranked Croatian opponent.
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/ 21 February 2005
Acclaimed South African author Dalene Matthee died at the age of 67 on Sunday, news reports said. Matthee penned more than a dozen novels, including Circles in a Forest — an instant bestseller when it was published in 1984 — and Fiela’s Child published in 1986 and later adapted into a film.
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/ 21 February 2005
Swazi King Mswati III has bought a new Mercedes limousine, the latest in a string of luxury car purchases for himself and his 10 wives in the Southern African kingdom. The 36-year-old king caused a stir on Friday when he turned up at the opening of Parliament in his latest acquisition and ordered his bodyguards to block photographers from taking pictures of the new Mercedes S-Class Pullman.
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/ 21 February 2005
Raymond Mhlaba was a stalwart of the liberation struggle whose life enriched all South Africans, President Thabo Mbeki said in a statement on Monday morning.
The African National Congress veteran and Rivonia trialist died on Sunday night at the age of 85.
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/ 21 February 2005
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Sunday prepared to celebrate his 81st birthday, launching a fresh attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and hitting out at his sacked information minister Jonathan Moyo. Mugabe also described the relationship between the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and former colonial ruler Britain as ”treasonous”.
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/ 21 February 2005
Seventy-nine people are confirmed dead and another 120 are feared drowned after a ferry capsized and sank during a storm in Bangladesh. The double-decker Maharaj was on its way to the eastern town of Chandpur when it went down in the Buriganga river just outside the capital, Dhaka, in strong winds on Saturday night.