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/ 17 November 2004
Dual-listed information and communications technology group Dimension Data (Didata) on Wednesday posted adjusted earnings per share of 0,9 United States cents for the year ended September 30, from a 2,7 US cents loss reported a year ago. The group’s turnover rose to $2,368-billion from $2,014-billion previously.
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/ 17 November 2004
G7, G10, G20… International discussion groups appear to find their identity in numbers, a puzzling phenomenon given that some have the same name or a figure that does not equate with member numbers. Here is brief guide to decoding these ”Group of” numbers: conceived as a G5 of the finance ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States.
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/ 17 November 2004
Angola is losing -million a day due to a flourishing illicit trade in diamonds, Mining Minister Manuel Africano said on Tuesday, as new sales plans were announced in Belgium. More than 300 000 foreigners have been deported from Angola as part of a crackdown on diamond traffickers, police announced in September.
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/ 17 November 2004
With the bullion price at a 16-year high, gold stocks were roaring ahead on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) in noon trade on Wednesday, despite the fact the rand had just broken below the psychological R6-per-dollar level. However, the currency’s strength kept the rest of the resources market in check.
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/ 17 November 2004
A United States hypersonic experimental scramjet, the X-43A, clocked up a test flight on Tuesday at a world-record speed 10 times faster than sound, Nasa said on Tuesday. The pilotless scramjet screeched across the Pacific Ocean with Nasa scientists nervously monitoring its second test flight.
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/ 17 November 2004
The Colombian government will allow hundreds of families left homeless after a strong earthquake to move temporarily into houses and country estates seized from drug traffickers, officials said on Tuesday. The quake, registering a powerful 6,7 on the Richter scale, hit early on Monday and injured 12 people.
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/ 17 November 2004
Three men who broke the Foreign Military Assistance Act were fined a total of R350 000 or jail time by the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Harry Carlse, Lourens Horn and Crause Steyl pleaded guilty under a plea bargain between the defence and the state to involvement in a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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/ 17 November 2004
A police captain and two inspectors asked the Johannesburg Regional Court on Wednesday for bail as they face 14 charges including theft, aggravated assault and defeating the ends of justice — involving about R13-million. The men allegedly beat up suspects and stole money and goods recovered following arrests.
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/ 17 November 2004
Namibia’s president-in-waiting Hifikepunye Pohamba says expropriations of white farms are ”going to happen” in his Southern African country but has pledged to ”talk, talk, talk” to make them as painless as possible. In an interview with AFP, Pohamba portrayed himself as a man of dialogue who is sensitive to the impact that land reform can have on people’s lives in this country of 1,82-million people.
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/ 17 November 2004
A 10-year-old grilled-cheese sandwich a Florida woman says bears the image of the Virgin Mary was back on eBay on Tuesday after the internet auction house initially cancelled bids that went up to $22 000. Owner Diana Duyser (52), of Hollywood, Florida, insists the miraculously mould-free snack is not a scam.
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