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/ 10 November 2004
Britain could be asked to contribute troops to a 10 000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force for Sudan under a draft resolution being discussed in the security council. The proposal for a UN force is part of a British package of incentives designed to gain Sudan’s agreement to a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Darfur, in western Sudan.
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/ 10 November 2004
From the outside, Beijing’s Shishahai sports school is unremarkable. It would be easy to walk past it, a functional-looking building a couple of kilometres north of Tiananmen square, without even noticing. Inside the main entrance, in the gloomy hall, the first thing you see is the noticeboard, on to which the pictures of five athletes have been pinned.
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/ 10 November 2004
The bid by world number-six gold miner Harmony for world number-four gold miner Gold Fields remains too close to call, with both groups of shareholders likely to make their final decision to vote for or against the merger on the day of the shareholder vote, investment market players said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 November 2004
Listed retailer Edgars Consolidated Stores (Edcon) has reported an 88% rise in its headline earnings per share for the six months to the end of September 2004 to 968 cents, from 516 cents a year earlier. The group doubled its interim dividend while maintaining two times earnings cover, to 494 cents per share from 247 cents in 2003.
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/ 10 November 2004
Cape Town has taken its next step in improving tourist services in the region with the launch of Cape Town Tourism’s new united corporate identity. Cape Town Tourism was previously the bureau responsible for the CBD, Waterfront and Atlantic Seaboard areas only.
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/ 10 November 2004
Isn’t it getting to you that the decade of democracy still seems so far from overcoming poverty? That South Africa is still lined with shacks, and that Reconstruction and Development Programme matchbox dwellings — where they exist — are no different in size and uniformity to the houses laid out during apartheid? Then, in this mindset, you read that Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has said, ominously, there is too much money going to social grants.
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/ 10 November 2004
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange was running normally after technical hitches on Tuesday saw delays, the JSE said on Wednesday. Due to a problem experienced with the JSE’s primary and back-up transatlantic communication links, trading on the equities market was halted at approximately 3.29pm on Tuesday.
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Doubts surrounding the black economic empowerment (BEE) suitability of Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings resulted in two meetings between Deputy President Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thomson-CSF, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday. Shaik has pleaded not guilty to two charges of fraud and corruption.
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/ 10 November 2004
John Ashcroft, the United States Attorney General and the embodiment of the Christian right in the Bush administration, announced his resignation on Tuesday night, marking the start of a second-term reshuffle. He was ill with pancreatitis earlier this year and had his gall bladder removed.
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/ 10 November 2004
Palestinian officials said Yasser Arafat was close to death on Tuesday night after suffering a brain haemorrhage and sinking deeper into a week-long coma. The Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, visited Arafat at a Paris military hospital to try to establish the true state of his health after two weeks of confusing and contradictory claims.