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/ 30 November 2004
Rahul Dravid’s patient knock of 80 helped India take a useful first innings lead against South Africa in the second and final Test at Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
India reached 359-6 at stumps on the third day in reply to South Africa’s 305.
Dravid’s laborious five-hour knock, in which he faced 217 deliveries and hit eight boundaries, was a good sheet-anchor role.
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/ 29 November 2004
Mining company Harmony said on Monday it had obtained 10,8%t of the issued share capital of competitor Gold Fields in the first stage of its hostile take-over bid.
This represented some 53,4 million shares by last Friday’s noon deadline for the early settlement offer, the company said in a statement.
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/ 29 November 2004
In one of their more delicate rulings of recent years, British television watchdogs ruled Monday that a pig sexually pleasured on television by a minor celebrity did not feel degraded by the experience. Dozens of viewers complained about the episode in so-called reality television show The Farm, in which a series of celebrities were sent to do tough work with agricultural crops and animals.
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/ 29 November 2004
Rwanda has sent thousands of troops into the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in recent days, a Western diplomat in Kinshasa said on Monday, but United Nations officials said they had found no evidence of such an incursion. The Western diplomat, speaking on condition he not be identified, said that Rwandan troops have been seen crossing into the DRC since Friday.
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/ 29 November 2004
The supply of new residential buildings in South Africa has not kept up with the strong demand for residential property over the first nine months of 2004, according to Absa senior economist Jacques du Toit, reflected by the relatively strong increase in building costs compared with inflation.
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/ 29 November 2004
Deepika Thani drew her first breath as the world’s worst chemical accident flushed the air out of the lungs of thousands of people in Bhopal 20 years ago this week. Just before midnight on December 2 1984, milky white clouds of toxic gas settled over the sleeping citizens of Bhopal. A lethal fog of poisonous gas was spewing from a pesticide plant owned by the American multinational Union Carbide.
100 000 still suffer ‘chronic illnesses’
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/ 29 November 2004
Journalist Tony Weaver has been suspended from his post as acting news editor of the Cape Times after criticising ”plagiarism” by sister newspaper the Cape Argus. Weaver did this in the Krisjan Lemmer column of the Mail & Guardian. ”I have no regrets,” he told Mail & Guardian Online.
Krisjan Lemmer: Behind the scenes
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/ 29 November 2004
The auditor who confronted Thomson-CSF boss Alain Thetard about his role in allegedly procuring a bribe for Deputy-President Jacob Zuma testified in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial on Monday. Gary Parker, the audit partner for Thomson-CSF in South Africa, said he and his audit manager David Green met Thetard after allegations of bribery by a former secretary, Susan Delique.
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/ 29 November 2004
Objectors to the building of a mini-nuclear reactor outside Cape Town did not get a fair chance to put forward their views, a full bench of the Cape High Court heard on Monday. Environmental lobby group Earthlife Africa is asking the court to overturn Environment Affairs Director-General Chippy Olver’s approval in June last year of an environmental impact assessment for the reactor.