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/ 20 October 2004
Scores of United States citizens cast their ballots on Tuesday in Cape Town, ahead of the November presidential election in the US, with the number of voters taking officials by surprise, a US consulate spokesperson said. The consulate staged a ”voting event” for the November 2 election, in which citizens living in the Western Cape could come and cast their ballots, said Louis Nazer.
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/ 20 October 2004
The transfer of oil from a ship grounded in a remote area on the Wild Coast should start on Wednesday morning, the Environmental Affairs and Tourism Department said. Salvors have been working since first light on Tuesday to get all the equipment set up for the operation, and oil should start being pumped from the BBC China onto the Pentow Service early on Wednesday morning.
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/ 20 October 2004
Anglo American plc and its South African subsidiary Kumba Resources on Wednesday announced that Anglo Coal Australia and Kumba Australia have signed a heads of agreement that could lead to the development of a major coking coal mine in central Queensland, Australia.
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/ 20 October 2004
Absa Corporate and Merchant Bank, corporate advisers to Matlapeng Strategic Investments, has assisted with the acquisition of a 25% shareholding in the share capital of Raubex Construction. The transaction, which was closed on October 2, gives Matlapeng the opportunity to expand on Raubex’s national presence in the civil construction industry.
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/ 20 October 2004
Judge Hillary Squires, who is presiding over the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial, on Wednesday again lashed out at the media for inaccurate reporting regarding evidence which was led in the trial on Tuesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123995">Witness did not want to be involved</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123967">Shaik lawyer refutes assistant’s claims</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123960">Media rebuked at Shaik trial</a>
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/ 20 October 2004
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a four-day visit to South Africa on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian groups denounced as a retreat from the struggle for equality embraced by President Thabo Mbeki’s government. Olmert is the most senior Israeli official to visit South Africa since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123892">SA govt defends Israeli leader’s visit</a>
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/ 20 October 2004
The violence in Darfur, which has destroyed the livelihood of up to a million people, has created ”an unprecedented food crisis”, the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Attacks by the government-backed Janjaweed militia, which has burned villages and looted cattle during its attempt to crush a rebellion, have devastated agriculture and trade.
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/ 20 October 2004
The drive from Detroit to Mason City, Iowa, begins with car plants and ends with cornfields. Turning your back on the Motor City, you pass through the rustbelt, trace the lower contours of Lake Michigan and, after you’ve passed Chicago, cruise under the big skies and through open prairie.
US citizens in South Africa cast votes
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/ 20 October 2004
A British woman who has devoted most of her life to caring for the people of Iraq became the latest victim of Baghdad’s ruthless kidnap gangs on Tuesday. Video footage of Margaret Hassan, looking tired and drawn with her hands tied behind her back, was shown on an Arabic television channel.
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/ 20 October 2004
Have you always ached to know how to make the best tacos ever? Probably not, but Ian Fraser thought you just might. In his bag of useful (and useless) goodies this week, you can get a <i>Lord of the Rings</i> bargain, convert any currency into rands, compare local PC prices to international ones, learn how to sell poo on eBay, enlist the services of rifle-wielding childminders, spice up your lexicon and more.