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South African banking group Standard Bank said on Wednesday that it has placed restrictions on the accounts of a small number of customers who have failed to comply with Financial Intelligence Centre Act requirements to reidentify themselves. These customers have ignored the bank’s repeated requests to reidentify themselves
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The Mzansi bank account for low-income, previously unbanked people, saw 557Â 439 accounts opened by the first week in February, the Banking Council announced on Wednesday. ”Mzansi has been successful way beyond our and any other stakeholders’ expectations,” said Colin Donian, director of the Mzansi initiative.
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/ 9 February 2005
The South African government on Wednesday confirmed it was considering classifying land owners in South Africa in terms of their race and nationality, but said this was being done purely to help it gauge the pace of land reform and the extent of foreign land ownership.
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/ 9 February 2005
A prize-winning track athlete who competed in women’s events was actually a man, a court in Zimbabwe has been told. Samukaliso Sithole, who competed in domestic and regional competitions, faced charges of crimen injuria, or psychological offence, in the second city of Bulawayo.
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/ 9 February 2005
The defence in the sex-crimes trial of Pretoria Advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo tried to stop the viewing in court on Wednesday of a police video showing naked pictures of Visser as well as Prinsloo’s ex-wife, girlfriends and other friends. The defence asked that a portion of the video showing the pictures contained in the so called ”red album” not be shown to the court.
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The bid by gold miner Harmony Gold for rival Gold Fields is "under water" and history shows that such a hostile offer has never succeeded, Gold Fields chief executive officer Ian Cockerill said on Wednesday. "In the history of hostile takeovers, 100% of all bids that are under water have never been successful," he said.
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/ 9 February 2005
Seventeen prominent Russian human rights activists called on President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to take up Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov’s call for negotiations to bring an end to the fighting that has raged in southern Russia for the better part of the past decade.
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Security at all Gauteng public hospitals will be reviewed, the province’s health department said on Tuesday, after the alleged rape of a terminally ill elderly woman in her hospital bed in a gynaecological ward at the Pretoria Academic hospital. The patient’s subsequent death was probably more to blame on her illness than the attack, the department said.
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At least 20 people, among them many children, were killed in Angola and scores more injured after a truck ploughed into a crowd of carnival revellers on Tuesday, Angolan media reported. The accident, in the city of Lubango in southern Huila province, happened when the vehicle appeared to lose control of its brakes.
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/ 9 February 2005
Catching up with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel said on Tuesday it will ship a desktop PC microprocessor that can handle significantly larger chunks of data than most of today’s chips. The new 600-series Pentium 4s are the first Intel desktop chips that support a technology called 64-bit memory addressability.