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/ 1 November 2004
Pupils and teachers at Brandwacht Primary School near Mossel Bay on Monday were mourning the death of an 11-year-old pupil, Aubrey Peterson, killed by a collapsing wall. The Western Cape education department said four other pupils were injured in the accident on Friday. The wall that collapsed was under construction at the time.
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/ 1 November 2004
In introducing the new Director General of her department, Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Minister of Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on Monday said black economic empowerment (BEE) is an imperative, and as such South Africa needs a BEE charter that recognises such an imperative.
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/ 1 November 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140506/shaik_icon_new.gif" align=left>The media took centre stage in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in the Durban High Court on Monday. South African Broadcasting Corporation radio, e.tv and talk radio stations 702 and Cape Talk have applied to broadcast the trial. In its application, e.tv said it wants to broadcast sound, not pictures.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124664">No proof of Shaik loans to Zuma</a>
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/ 1 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was up more than 1% in midday trade on Monday as commodity prices recovered from Thursday’s sell-off following China’s and India’s surprise rate hikes. At noon, the all-share index was up 1,04%, and the industrial index was 0,58% better.
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/ 1 November 2004
An ailing Yasser Arafat entered a fourth day of emergency treatment on Monday at a French military hospital specialising in blood disorders, but the cause of his precipitous decline in health remained unexplained. Palestinian officials say their leader’s condition has improved markedly since he was rushed to Paris on Friday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=124695">Potential successors take control</a>
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/ 1 November 2004
Every time I flip channels and come across the American television programme Extreme Makeover, I am astounded. Men and women write in to the show, requesting extensive surgical intervention to help change their lives for the better. One family that submitted a request was introduced as ”the Bushes”. Their son, a former alcoholic, philanderer and military service vagabond, was in need of an Extreme Makeover.
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/ 1 November 2004
At least four people were killed and 30 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an open-air market in the Israeli commercial capital, Tel Aviv, on Monday, police said. It was the first such attack in Israel since twin suicide bus bombings in the southern city of Beesheva on August 31 that killed 15 people.
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/ 1 November 2004
First National Bank (FNB) — one of the country’s so-called "big four" banks and a wholly-owned subsidiary of FirstRand — has quietly been undergoing a makeover. The group is realigning its retail and corporate divisions in a move that newly appointed CEO Michael Jordaan says is aimed primarily at growth.
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/ 1 November 2004
The Absa group’s separately branded specialist bank, MLS Bank, will be integrated into the Absa brand over the course of the next few months, in line with the group’s powerful single-brand strategy. The group said on Monday that the niche market of medical professionals currently serviced by MLS will continue to receive specialist attention.
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/ 1 November 2004
When George Bush makes his last speech at his last rally on Monday, there will be nothing left for him to do but go home to Texas and hand over the final task in the effort to get him re-elected to a brigade of passionate enthusiasts like Dorothy Niklos.