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Financial services group Investec has raised R1-billion via its public offer of preference shares, increasing the number of new shares issued from five million to 10-million to help meet demand for the shares. Combined with its previous private placement totalling R1,3-billion, the group has raised R2,3-billion via preference share issues.
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/ 15 February 2005
Telkom has withdrawn an appeal against a 2003 Pretoria High Court ruling which found that least-cost routing was a legal practice, parties to the matter said on Monday. Telkom advised Nashua Mobile, one of some 12 respondents in the matter, of the withdrawal on Monday.
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/ 15 February 2005
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party has accused some NGOs, labour bodies and SA’s main opposition of plotting to unseat his government. The manifesto said Western ”sponsored phoney non-governmental organisations have been campaigning for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change”.
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/ 15 February 2005
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a royal palace in the heart of the Italian capital which dates back to the time when the mythical twins Romulus and Remus were said to have founded the city. Until now, legend has described how Rome was founded in 753BC by the sons of Mars, the god of war, who were found and nurtured by a wolf.
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/ 15 February 2005
Zimbabwean police on Monday questioned Jan Raath, correspondent for German news agency DPA, and three other journalists over allegations of ”spying” and of working illegally as reporters. The questioning was the latest in what observers said appeared to be a new crackdown by President Robert Mugabe’s government on foreign correspondents.
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/ 15 February 2005
The old won out over the new at the annual Grammy awards, billed as the music industry’s equivalent of the Oscars. Genius Loves Company, the final, posthumous recording by Ray Charles won the album of the year title, while a duet with Nora Jones from the album won the award for record of the year.
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/ 15 February 2005
Rafik Hariri, Lebanon’s former Prime Minister, was assassinated in a huge bomb attack on Monday that killed at least nine others, injured more than a hundred and threatened to shatter the country’s fragile peace. The murder of the billionaire opponent of Syria’s influence in Lebanon raised the spectre of a return to violence 15 years after the civil war.
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/ 15 February 2005
They are called Charley, Left-Arrow, Diagonal-Line and Six-Point. The four female penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany are at the centre of debate after being brought in to tempt ”gay” male penguins. The zoo imported the penguins from Sweden last month after finding through DNA tests that three of their five existing pairs were all male.
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"(* Just kidding about the porn. Although it does relate to a story demonstrating the power of using the word in an article heading.) In the meantime, police in Germany are irritated as hell at some happy pranksters who have been planting little United States flags in dog-poo piles for some time now. Piles of poo in parks and on sidewalks have been sprouting little flags, in a cheerfully anarchic form of political protest."
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/ 15 February 2005
"Many make ‘independence’ a mere synonym for government-bashing. David Unterhalter, Leon’s former campaign manager, is a partisan acknowledged in Leon’s collected speeches, <i>Hope and Fear</i>. Judicial transformation creates, he says, ‘an expectation of executive-mindedness to which judges may, even subliminally, fall prey’." Ronald Suresh Roberts comments.