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/ 25 February 2004
After a flat 2003, global resources group Anglo American (Anglo) is set for a very strong 2004 financial year driven by strong gains in commodity prices and the possibility of a weaker rand, analysts say. Given current commodity prices, Anglo could set record headline earnings per share for the year to December 2004.
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/ 25 February 2004
A national strike called by Zimbabwe’s largest trade union movement on Wednesday to press for changes in the management of the country’s national pension fund had little effect in the capital, Harare. The city centre was bustling, with the majority of banks, shops and businesses functioning normally.
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/ 25 February 2004
Justice Minister Penuell Maduna is expected to spend some time in hospital after being injured in a car accident, the Sandton Medi-Clinic indicated on Wednesday. ”We do not expect him to be discharged soon,” spokesperson Vicky Nash said.
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/ 25 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was slightly stronger in noon trade on Wednesday, with heavyweight resources stocks benefiting from higher precious metals prices. However, volumes were fairly light and the market lacked overall direction, dealers said.
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/ 25 February 2004
The Catholic Church in South Africa says it is ”dismayed” at Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s criticism of the church’s stand against condoms. Tutu, an Anglican, earlier this week used an international Aids conference in Dublin to speak out against Catholic disapproval of condoms as a way of preventing the spread of Aids.
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/ 25 February 2004
Connoisseurs have long appreciated the merits of Kenyan coffee, typically described as having a fruity, acidic flavour. But now coffee farm output has seriously declined — something attributed to rising production costs, mismanagement within cooperative ventures and poor policies on the part of the government.
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/ 25 February 2004
More than 20 aftershocks rattled northwestern Morocco through the night and into Wednesday morning in the wake of the killer earthquake on Tuesday that claimed more than 560 lives in the region of Al Hoceima. One of the aftershocks measured 4,2 on the Richter scale, after the primary quake that registered 6,3.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=31755">Flouting of building law blamed</a>
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/ 25 February 2004
Chris Harry is a model employee for the United States’s call centre industry. The 25-year-old arrives promptly at his cubicle, speaks courteously on the phone and is never late or absent. He plans to stick with his job for three years, a boon in an industry plagued by high turnover.
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/ 25 February 2004
The South African Transport Workers Union (Satawu) on Wednesday accused the airports baggage handing company Equity Aviation of "lying" in the media about an
ongoing strike dispute. Satawu said it was astonished at the lengths Equity Aviation was prepared to go to to misrepresent the truth about the current dispute.
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/ 25 February 2004
Media ethics are once again in the spotlight after popular television presenter Siphiwe Mtshali announced his intention to sue the Sunday World newspaper for defamation after it published photographs of a couple having sex in a car outside a nightclub and it claimed it was Mtshali.