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/ 18 October 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange is expected to open firmer on Monday despite a stronger rand. Dealers said they expect the rand to weaken on the day. At 8.56am the all share index futures (Alsis) were two points up after just three contracts had traded, but the industrial index futures (Indis) were yet to trade.
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/ 18 October 2004
Key portions of an Act, delineating the powers of authorities to intercept communications, are expected to come into force very soon. This legislation gives law enforcement agencies wide-ranging powers to intercept the e-mails, cellphone and fixed-line calls of suspected criminals — in some cases, without an order from the courts. Concerns have been raised about the extent to which private communications can be monitored.
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/ 18 October 2004
Newcastle manager Graeme Souness is to study video evidence before deciding whether to punish Craig Bellamy, who was caught by television cameras abusing him after being substituted during Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Charlton. ”I did not see it, but I can understand players not being happy,” said Souness.
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/ 18 October 2004
Bush Bucks boss Sturu Pasiya on Monday confirmed that Khabo Zondo is one of the coaches his club is talking to regarding the vacant coaching job at Bucks. Zondo flew to East London last week to hold talks with Bucks after the East London outfit had relieved head coach Clemens Westerhof of his duties in the same week.
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/ 18 October 2004
Adam Bacher, opening batsman of the Highveld Lions, on Sunday scored an unbeaten 121 to ensure a second consecutive win for the Lions in the Supersport series against the Eagles at Goodyear Park on Sunday. The Lions needed 291 to win the game after the home team on Saturday managed 330 in their second innings.
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/ 18 October 2004
The Bush administration’s concern with holding free and fair elections in Afghanistan is as touching as its current determination to rebuild the country. The reality is that both of these are very much by-products of the invasion of that country three years ago during the heat of post-9/11 anger. You need a well-developed sense of irony to appreciate what is happening in Afghanistan.
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/ 18 October 2004
There was both a tragic and a timely element in the way that last week’s death of the Hollywood actor Christopher Reeve — best known for his leading role in the Superman films — has focused attention on a topic on which he became an ardent campaigner after being paralysed in a riding accident: the use of embryonic stem cells in research. His death coincided with two heated political debates around the issue.
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/ 18 October 2004
Lauded as both ”legend” and ”prophet” in the Kenyan media, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize continued to command world attention last week. But Aids activists, health NGOs and small-scale farmers in Kenya considered the honour bestowed upon the country’s assistant minister of the environment with mixed feelings.
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/ 18 October 2004
Darren Dent surveyed the concrete walkways of Stella Gardens, the low-rise Dublin estate where he spent 15 years addicted to heroin and where children still alleviate boredom by sniffing Tippex painted on their sleeves. Stella Gardens is on the edge of Dublin 4, the capital’s best postcode and the heart of Ireland’s economic miracle.
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/ 18 October 2004
The troubled western Sudan region of Darfur is facing another catastrophe with a growing number of animal deaths in the region. New arrivals in the remote area of Wad al-Bashir, where camps host over 80 000 displaced people, say they are alarmed by the mounting number of animals dying there every day, especially donkeys.