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/ 3 December 2004
The increasingly desperate struggle sparked by Harmony’s hostile bid climaxes in a shareholders meeting this week. Gold Fields’s shareholders will vote on the proposal that their company should merge its mining interests outside South Africa with those of Canadian miner IAMGold. The merger would result in a new company, to be called Gold Fields International, owned 30% by IAMGold’s present shareholders and 70% by Gold Fields’s.
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/ 3 December 2004
Ghana’s President John Kufuor of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is on course to win a second term. The country’s opposition candidate, John Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is struggling to emerge from the shadow of former NDC leader Jerry Rawlings ahead of elections on December 7. Rawlings’s high profile is making Atta Mills look weak, reducing his support among undecided voters.
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/ 3 December 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/142915/aids_icon.gif" align=left>Researchers are expressing cautious optimism about several microbicide products. There are hopes that a gel that reduces — if not prevents — transmission rates by as much as 60% could be on the market by 2007. As with most microbicides under the microscope, these two products are entry inhibitors, preventing the virus from attaching to its target cells.
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/ 3 December 2004
A new colour has emerged in Ukraine’s polarised political spectrum. Students in Kharkov, worried by the escalating confrontation between Viktor Yushchenko’s orange revolutionaries and the blue-and-white supporters of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, have established a "green" movement called We Are for Peace! with the aim of bringing the two sides together
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/ 3 December 2004
The British sociologist Stuart Hall has used the expression "moral panic" to describe a situation in which large numbers of people are persuaded that some vital good or right of theirs is under dire threat. Much of the "Bram Fischer debate", concerning a posthumous honorary doctorate being awarded by the University of Stellenbosch, has the dimensions of exactly such a panic.
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/ 3 December 2004
Former South African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher may well be back in the national cricket squad when it is announced next Tuesday, but opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs might not. That was the opinion of national coach Ray Jennings when the team returned from India on Friday.
Proteas turning the corner
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/ 3 December 2004
So we got it then. That brief outburst of bile and hate that has become a tradition when Manchester United play Arsenal. Okay, it was only brief. Two elbows and a kick from the aggressive young Dutchman Robin van Persie, followed by a quick handbag from Manchester United’s fiery Kieran Richardson.
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/ 3 December 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has admitted that international sanctions are hurting his country. Delivering the keynote address at the Zanu-PF congress, he railed against the usual suspect — British Prime Minster Tony Blair — for ”wanting the collapse of the Zimbabwe economy”. Mugabe also expressed concern about corruption and the abuse of depositors’ funds in the financial sector.
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The hospital on the outskirts of Nairobi wasn’t built because of its proximity to the Kenyan capital’s massive townships, although the chaotic slums do provide it with an overflow of patients. It wasn’t constructed using millions of dollars of donor funds, which is why it consists completely of cold, grey cement, overcrowded wards and medical equipment dating back to the 1960s. The wind created Mbagathi Hospital.
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/ 3 December 2004
There are certain things that are non-negotiable in rugby. One of these is that when you run down the tunnel and on to the field you have to look as mean as possible. Scowling is good, as is the 1 000-mile stare and in France it is de rigueur for a forward to already have a little blood dripping from the forehead.