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The Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA (Contralesa) has bought a 25,1% stake in UWP Consulting, a Johannesburg-based engineering consulting firm. Prince Mpumalanga Gwadiso said the acquisition was in line with its intention to achieve good returns for Contralesa members and the largely rural constituencies it represents.
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/ 16 November 2004
Voting began on Tuesday morning in the vast north-west African desert state of Niger, where nearly half the population of 11-million is being called on to elect a president. Polling stations opened at 8am, and Interior Minister Abouba Albade said half an hour later that voting was going ahead ”without incident”.
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/ 16 November 2004
Police in Shanghai have smashed an illegal gambling ring betting on fights between pet crickets and confiscated 1,8-million yuan ($220 000), state media said on Tuesday. Cricket fighting, a hobby of the ancient Chinese, dates back to as early as the Tang dynasty of 618 to 907 AD.
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/ 16 November 2004
Côte d’Ivoire was under an arms embargo on Tuesday after a unanimous vote in the United Nations Security Council aiming to quell a new wave of unrest that has convulsed the West African state and sent thousands of foreigners fleeing. The country’s northern rebels, meanwhile, were preparing a march towards Abidjan.
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/ 16 November 2004
A Croatian priest beat a member of his parish, threatened others with a rifle and crashed his car in a night of drunken rage, press reported on Tuesday. The Slunj region’s bishop, Mile Bogovic, explained that the priest’s violent behaviour was provoked by alcohol.
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/ 16 November 2004
Europe’s first mission to the moon, the unmanned exploratory probe <i>Smart-1</i>, has been safely placed in lunar orbit after a voyage of more than 13 months, the European Space Agency announced on Tuesday. <i>Smart-1</i>, a tiny test-bed of revolutionary technology, was successfully captured by the moon’s gravity on Monday.
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/ 16 November 2004
The Pentagon said on Monday night it was opening an investigation into the shooting of an unarmed and wounded Iraqi in Fallujah, following the release of television footage showing what appeared to be a close-range execution-style killing. The Iraqi was one of five wounded prisoners left in a battle-scarred mosque after marines fought their way through the city at the weekend.
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/ 16 November 2004
As the tit-for-tat war between South African gold-mining giants Harmony and Gold Fields raged on, Gold Fields chairperson Chris Thompson made an impassioned appeal on Tuesday to shareholders to reject Harmony’s hostile bid for Gold Fields, saying it has already destroyed R7-billion in combined potential value for shareholders.
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/ 16 November 2004
Foreign diamond traders have a responsibility to enhance economic growth in Africa and eradicate perceptions that the precious stone, like oil, is a curse to many African states, government news agency BuaNews on Tuesday quoted President Thabo Mbeki as saying.
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/ 16 November 2004
Namibians began a second and final day of voting on Tuesday to elect a new president and Parliament in a poll widely expected to return the country’s ruling Swapo party to power. More than 1Â 160 polling stations across the country opened for about 950Â 000 registered voters on Monday.
Namibia goes to the polls