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/ 21 January 2005
Overseas development assistance or aid flows to Africa are not matching the progress that African countries have made in terms of governance over the past three years, Gobind Nankani, the World Bank’s regional vice-president for Africa, told a media briefing in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 21 January 2005
Shareholders of Australian-listed grocery and liquor wholesaler Metcash Trading have approved resolutions that will facilitate the group’s plans to buy the 60% stake in Metcash held by South African-listed holding group Metoz, Metcash confirmed on Friday. Metoz was previously known as Metro Cash and Carry or Metcash.
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/ 21 January 2005
A rush of investors keen to participate in the strong run of local equities has forced Old Mutual to close its top-performing general equity unit trust fund, the Old Mutual High Yield Opportunities Fund, to new investments with immediate effect. Old Mutual Unit Trusts announced its decision to close the fund on Friday.
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/ 21 January 2005
Canadian mining group Anooraq Resources on Friday announced that drilling has recommenced at the Boikgantsho joint venture properties, located on the northern limb of the Bushveld complex. Boikgantsho is a joint venture between Anooraq and Anglo Platinum.
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/ 21 January 2005
The narrow gravel airstrip in the dusty, desolate town of Rumbek has been a hive of activity since rebel and government leaders signed a historic peace accord officially ending Africa’s longest-running civil war. Businessmen, aid workers and diplomats have rushed to set up a presence in what is set to become the provisional capital of southern Sudan.
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/ 21 January 2005
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) does not require the Zimbabwean government’s permission to visit it’s counterparts in that country, the labour federation said on Friday. It was responding to comments made by Zimbabwe’s Labour Minister, Paul Mangwana, that Cosatu should not seek to return to the country.
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/ 21 January 2005
A senior Eritrean military official has dismissed guarantees that Ethiopian troop movements near their common border were purely defensive, according to the United Nations. Eritrean Colonel Zecarias Ogbagaber said he believed the troop deployment was "provocative".
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/ 21 January 2005
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Almodóvar’s plots are often soap opera, but the means are highly arty — movies-within-movies and complex flashback structures –his latest offering Bad Education does not disappoint. Shaun de Waal reviews.
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/ 21 January 2005
Before we get too misty-eyed with Live Aid nostalgia, remember what Queen got up to just months before. In 1985 they broke the United Nations’s cultural boycott and played gigs in apartheid South Africa, writes John Harris.
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/ 21 January 2005
After a positive opening in the black, the JSE Securities Exchange drifted into the red by noon on Friday, with a stronger rand weighing on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. The decline set the bourse on course to post its fifth straight day of losses.