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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday said his newly appointed Cabinet remained ”a war Cabinet”, but this time to fight an internal war against corruption. ”It’s still a war Cabinet,” Mugabe told reporters shortly after a ceremony to swear in the newcomers to the Cabinet at State House, his official residence.
Mbeki’s ‘unacceptable’ stance
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London-listed gold miner Randgold Resources says the $3-million or so it spent on its failed bid for Ghana’s Ashanti Goldfields was well worth it. It was a chance worth taking and we came quite close," said Randgold Resources CEO Dr Mark Bristow.
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The Cape High Court on Tuesday reserved judgement in an urgent application launched by Nicro to secure voting rights for prison inmates who were jailed without the option of a fine. Nicro, the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders, took the case to court on behalf of all such prisoners.
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Steers Holdings will change its name to Famous Brands Limited in March, the South African quick-service and fast-food company announced on Wednesday. The company’s abbreviated name will be FamBrands and it will remain listed in the leisure and hotels sector of the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa.
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There is likely to be continued competition among the world’s major gold players for the remaining listed quality bullion assets, says world number-four gold miner Gold Fields’s director of international operations John Munro. During the past decade global gold mining has seen consolidation that has left about six major producers/
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Global resources group Anglo American (Anglo) has embraced black economic empowerment in South Africa, recently appointed Anglo deputy company executive in South Africa Lazarus Zim said an interview. Black empowerment is one of the South African government’s key goals.
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A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with up to 225kg of explosives outside an army centre in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 36 people, mainly recruits queuing to sign up. The attack came less than 24 hours after a almost identical attack on a police station south of the Iraqi capital that left 55 dead.
‘Not one body in one piece’
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Tony Blair is planning to meet the Libyan president, Moammar Gadaffi, provided steps are taken to resolve the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher and progress continues to be made in dismantling Libya’s weapons of mass destruction.
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A big black hand gently directs a needle with yellow cotton from a sewing machine into blue fabric to create an embroidered picture of a rural village. It will take an hour for this 29-year-old Ghanaian to complete the design on this skirt, which he hopes will be worn by a young South African woman. He is one of about 50 West African designers in the Jo’burg’s inner city’s fashion district.
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>The announcement on Monday that South Africa will go to the polls on April 14 for its third democratic election has opened the way for political parties to start campaigning in earnest. But, analysts are already predicting that the ruling African National Congress will be returned to power with a sweeping majority.