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Foreign residents in Abidjan were subjected to at least "37 serious atrocities, including three or four attested rapes", a French representative in Côte d’Ivoire, Catherine Rechenmann, said on Friday. In Paris, a French military source said several dozen white women were raped.
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/ 12 November 2004
The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who publicly accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat, attended the Palestinian leader’s funeral on Friday in Cairo, in a rare public appearance for a man believed to be a walking target of the Israeli military.
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/ 12 November 2004
Tucked between Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue in Namibia’s capital of Windhoek lies Sam Nujoma Drive, named after the southern African country’s outgoing president and independence hero. He may be stepping down in four months after a third term as Namibia’s founding president, but there is little doubt that Sam Nujoma will continue to wield power in the arid southern African country.
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/ 12 November 2004
Shareholders of world number-six gold miner Harmony have given the thumbs-up for the company’s proposed merger with a rival — the world’s fourth-biggest gold miner, Gold Fields. Harmony also received the 75% required to increase its authorised share capital by 750-million shares to 1,2-billion shares.
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/ 12 November 2004
After setting fresh highs on Friday morning, the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) has pulled back, with some profit-taking emerging amid a slightly firmer rand. The JSE started on a slightly stronger note, with most of the major indices posting small gains at the opening.
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/ 12 November 2004
Hospital and clinics group Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare) said on Friday that, notwithstanding satisfactory growth and activity in its core hospital and ancillary health-care divisions, its results for the year ended September 30 will be impacted by period-specific, non-recurring items and prior year adjustments.
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/ 12 November 2004
Reacting to the Competition Commission’s recommendation that Nampak should be fined if found guilty of anti-competitive behaviour, the managing director of Nampak’s Africa region, Neil Cumming, said Nampak has steadfastly maintained at all stages of the investigations that the actions of its Glass division has been beyond reproach.
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/ 12 November 2004
Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa started the debate in the National Assembly on Friday morning on the National Small Business Amendment Bill, which he said is aimed at reducing duplication of institutions underpinning small-business development.
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/ 12 November 2004
The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has urged Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri to reject any "crony capital deals" such as that involving the purchase of 15,1% held by Thintana in the monopoly fixed line company, Telkom.
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/ 12 November 2004
They earn a lot more than the president of South Africa. They depend almost entirely on public money for their income. And they head relatively small institutions. Meet the new mega-earners of academe. Leading the pack is Professor Aaron Ndlovu, vice-chancellor of Mangosuthu Technikon, who last year somehow made ends meet with a shade under R3-million. President Thabo Mbeki earns R964 000.