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/ 20 December 2004
Banking group FirstRand announced on Monday that the necessary commitments and approvals from various financial institutions for the funding of the third-party component of a proposed black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction have been secured. This paves the way for the deal to be implemented in the first quarter of 2005.
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/ 20 December 2004
Employment opportunities for matrics are looking considerably more favourable than they did last year, trade union Solidarity said in a statement on Monday. The findings of a study carried out by Solidarity show that about 60% of job hunters in 2005 should find employment within the next 12 months.
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/ 20 December 2004
Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel on Monday confirmed in a statement, issued in Moscow, that its representatives as well as those from Gold Fields and Harmony Gold have engaged in preliminary talks. On Friday, representatives of Gold Fields and Harmony Gold met in Moscow with Norilsk Nickel representatives.
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/ 20 December 2004
Lightning claimed the lives of an initiate and a traditional nurse in the Cofimvaba area at the weekend, police said on Sunday. Superintendent Gcinikaya Taleni said initiate Bantom Bonga (19) and traditional nurse Salele Mbali (42) were killed when lightning struck their grass hut at Mthingwevu at about 5pm on Friday.
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/ 20 December 2004
Former Drum magazine editor Anthony Sampson has died at his Wiltshire cottage in Britain on Saturday night, his family said on Sunday. A family friend said Sampson, who was born in 1926, died of a heart attack. Sampson wrote Mandela’s authorised biography, Mandela, in 1999, and was a close friend of author Nadine Gordimer.
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/ 20 December 2004
The pressure on the beleaguered United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, intensified on Sunday and threatened to taint his main supporter in Washington, George Bush. David Hackworth, a retired US army colonel turned writer, reported that Rumsfeld had used a mechanical signature writer to sign his name on letters of condolence to relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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/ 20 December 2004
Former South African women’s hockey coach Ros Howell relinquished her post a week ago, but South African hockey officials have still not decided on a permanent replacement. A frantic search in the past few months has yielded little reward with few obvious local candidates, and now the net has been cast overseas.
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/ 20 December 2004
South Africa fought back brilliantly on the third day of the first Castle Lager/MTN Test against England at St George’s Park on Sunday to finish the day with a small lead and nine wickets in hand, with two days left to play. South Africa looked down and out at the end of the second day, with England on 227 for one.
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/ 20 December 2004
Manchester United soccer great Eric Cantona has joined the chorus of opposition to Malcolm Glazer’s intended takeover of the club. With Glazer reportedly putting together a second takeover offer some time this week, the French star told Man United fans on their own television station that Glazer should ”stay in America and buy Coca-Cola”.
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/ 20 December 2004
Argentinian Oscar Fullone is most likely to rejoin South Africa’s most expensively assembled football outfit, Mamelodi Sundowns. This follows speculation current coach Paul Dolezar is on his way out following a series of poor results in the past few days. Most recent was a shock 2-1 defeat by Black Leopards on Saturday.