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/ 20 October 2004
Conservationists, scientists and animal-rights campaigners from around Southern Africa gathered on Wednesday at the start of a three-day conference to discuss ways of controlling the region’s expanding elephant population. Debate around the elephants has been characterised by sharply conflicting views and high emotion.
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/ 20 October 2004
Former Bela-Bela farmer Deon Crous told the Boeremag treason trial on Wednesday how he was brought in to drive rented cars — in which bombs were to be planted — from Johannesburg International airport. Crous also said he had built petrol bombs on the instructions of the accused Herman van Rooyen.
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/ 20 October 2004
United Nations peacekeepers in Liberia used teargas to disperse a demonstration on Wednesday by parents and pupils who want their primary school in the capital reopened. Several parents said the protest embodied larger frustrations both with the Gyude Bryant government and the UN mission in the country.
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/ 20 October 2004
Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced on Wednesday the names of two of the three potential bidders for the unallocated equity in the second national telephone operator (SNO). They are Old Mutual Asset Managers and Tata Africa Holding.
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/ 20 October 2004
French arms-company executive Alain Thetard had an explosive temper and threw things at his staff, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. This was testimony from the fourth witness to be called in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial.
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/ 20 October 2004
A limited-edition magnum of champagne believed to be one of 12 selected to mark the 1981 marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at auction, a saleroom official said on Wednesday. The Cuvee Dom Perignon 1961 vintage was selected by makers Moët & Chandon for the royal wedding in 1981.
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/ 20 October 2004
Group turnover for South African consumer products and services group AVI Limited increased by 5% in the first quarter, chairperson Anthony Ardington said on Wednesday. He told shareholders at the group’s annual general meeting that although local consumer demand had slowed, the outlook generally remained positive.
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/ 20 October 2004
New data suggest economic activity has increased, but this may not translate directly into similar increases in the gross domestic product (GDP), Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said in Pretoria on Wednesday. Criticised for large revision figures of final GDP results, Stats SA admitted they are not on par with global adjustments to such figures.
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/ 20 October 2004
Japanese electronics giant NEC Corporation said on Wednesday it has begun selling the world’s fastest supercomputer. NEC claims its SX-8 is the most powerful ”vector-type” supercomputer, with a sustainable data-processing speed well beyond IBM’s recently unveiled Blue Gene/L.