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/ 23 November 2004
A state of emergency has been declared in Sudan’s North Darfur state because of attacks by rebels in which many people have died, a Sudanese government newspaper said Tuesday. The official Al Anbaa daily said local governor Osman Yusuf Kibir declared the state of emergency across north Darfur and a curfew in the wake of ”a grave military escalation by the rebels”.
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/ 23 November 2004
Former Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne wrestled with a burglar on Monday at his rural English home before the intruder and an accomplice made off with up to â,¬1,4-million, (R10.9-million) worth of jewellery, police said. Ozzy, 55, discovered one of the thieves around 4am in his wife Sharon’s dressing room, at their massive house near Chalfont Saint Peter, south England.
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/ 23 November 2004
Aids has hit sub-Saharan Africa so badly that the disease will cast a shadow over generations to come, even in countries that succeed in the battle against it, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Africans account for about 25,4-million of the 39,4-million people around the world who have either the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or Aids.
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/ 23 November 2004
People planning to go to Johannesburg’s Helen Joseph and Coronation hospitals were asked not to use the hospitals until the power failure in the western parts of the city had been repaired.
Parts of western Johannesburg were plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph hospital caught fire on Monday evening.
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/ 23 November 2004
First video killed the radio star. Now it looks like the video recorder’s days could be numbered too, after Britain’s biggest electrical retailer announced an end to sales of the household gadget. Sales of DVD players have grown seven-fold in the last five years, with sales at Dixons now outstripping sales of VCRs by 40 to one.
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There was no policy for the foreign acquisition of arms when the government embarked on the multi-billion rand arms acquisition process, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday. State witness David Griesel said this while testifying in the fraud and corruption trial of Schabir Shaik.
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/ 23 November 2004
The treasury division of Nedbank has obtained regulatory approval to spin-off three of its businesses into a consortium with substantive broad-based empowerment credentials. The empowered consortium, known as Taquanta, has acquired a stake in Nedbank Treasury Asset Management, Nedcor Treasury Management Services and NiB Securities (now Taquanta Securities) for an undisclosed amount.
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/ 23 November 2004
After a strong start, the JSE Securities Exchange surrendered some of its gains and was trading mixed at noon on Tuesday. While BHP Billiton led the market’s upside, banks, retailers and gold stocks were under pressure on the downside. At noon, the all share index was up 0,12%. Resources were 0,88% stronger and the platinum mining index had picked up 0,66%.
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/ 23 November 2004
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu questioned black economic empowerment on Tuesday, saying it seemed to benefit a small ”recycled” elite and called for action against poverty. ”It will not do to say people did not complain when whites were enriched. When were the old regime our standards?” asked Tutu in an address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg.
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/ 23 November 2004
The Independent Democrats (ID) on Monday accused Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon of lying, saying his attack on the ID was made up of lies and that the DA’s ”so-called scorecard reads like a right-wing intelligence report”. Leon said earlier on Monday that the ID had ”few principles and limited prospects” and it was spending its meagre resources opposing the opposition.