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The South African housing market is expected to be supported by strong economic growth in 2005 and the momentum in house-price growth established last year is set to continue into 2005, with nominal growth of between 15% and 20% projected for the year, Absa senior economist Jacques du Toit said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 February 2005
A British supermarket chain said on Tuesday it will start selling £19 (R210) replicas of Camilla Parker Bowles’s royal engagement ring when she marries Prince Charles on April 8. "Camilla’s ring is a timeless classic, and we want our customers to have a taste of royalty for a fraction of the price," said Justine Reid, who purchases jewellery for Asda.
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/ 16 February 2005
She was "Big Meg", the largest of all spiders that ever strode the Earth. The 300-million-year-old fossil was so famous that plaster casts of her body are on display in numerous museums and copies can be purchased over the internet for hundreds of dollars apiece.
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/ 16 February 2005
Red-faced government officials have been forced to review thousands of road signs just erected throughout Hong Kong after several were found to have been spelled wrong, a report said on Wednesday. Among the worst offenders were Supereme Court Road, which should have been Supreme Court Road, and Club Stree (Club Street).
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The Academy of Science of South Africa has been chosen to receive funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The science academies of Nigeria and Uganda have also received funding. The funding will help boost the academies’ ability to provide African governments and the public with advice on science-related issues.
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Proudfoot Consulting on Wednesday became the first international management consulting group in South Africa to sell equity to black economic empowerment (BEE) investors. The group said direct empowerment through BEE ownership will provide a competitive advantage for international firms.
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The Ugandan government is certain of military success against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) should the rebel group prove to be less serious about dialogue. ”Just in case they are not that serious, the UPDF [Uganda People’s Defence Force] will continue its offensive,” the minister told Parliament in a statement on Monday evening.