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/ 3 November 2004
South African gold-mining group Harmony has called on rival Gold Fields to avoid a battle that will only enrich lawyers and reconsider a merger bid that will create the world’s largest gold-mining group. The appeal was made by Harmony CEO Barnard Swanepoel in an open letter to his Gold Fields counterpart, Ian Cockerill.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=124784">Harmony: ‘Let’s do it our way'</a>
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/ 3 November 2004
Property services group JHI Real Estate and black economic empowerment (BEE) investors Mpande Holdings and Phatsima Industrial have signed a BEE deal that focuses strongly on participatory shareholdings in the booming property sector, the parties said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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/ 3 November 2004
South African Airways (SAA) deputy chief executive Oyama Mabandla has resigned from his position. Mabandla said he will be pursuing his own business interests to take advantage of the economic tide that is sweeping the country as a result of the success of democracy.
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/ 3 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s ruling party has launched new membership cards as a way of testing its popularity ahead of next year’s polls, state television reported on Tuesday. Members and party officials will now have to pay monthly subscription fees to belong to President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front.
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/ 3 November 2004
Prince Charles and his companion Camilla Parker Bowles will not attend the wedding of his godson this weekend, sparking reports in Wednesday’s newspapers that they refused to be seated apart. The reports underline the continuing social awkwardness of Charles’ very public liaison with a woman he says he has no plans to marry.
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/ 3 November 2004
George Bush scored a key victory in Tuesday’s extremely tight United States presidential vote, taking the crucial battleground state of Florida that proved decisive in the 2000 election, US television networks projected. Still, results in many of the hotly contested critical swing states were too close to call and hours after all polls had officially closed nationwide the networks were holding off on calling them for Bush or challenger John Kerry.
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/ 3 November 2004
South Africans who end up in the rainforests of Brazil will find scenes that conform to the sources of their primal concepts of rainforests, like the images from <i>The Golden Book of the Jungle</i> that have haunted my dreams of travelling in the Amazon since I could read. They will also find the ways in which the Brazilians are trying to save their forests, much in common with our current approaches to conservation.
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/ 3 November 2004
The head of Kenya’s medical association has urged doctors to protest at the murder trial of a gynaecologist accused of carrying out abortions. When John Nyamu goes on trial next week it will provoke a split in his profession between colleagues who regard him as a martyr and other doctors who back the prosecution.
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/ 3 November 2004
Global warming is causing the Arctic ice-cap to melt at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all, according to the most comprehensive study carried out on global climate change in the region. The Arctic ”is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on Earth”, the report says.