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Detectives from the Office for Serious Economic Offences arrested a couple in Orange Farm south of Johannesburg on Monday in connection with the illegal sale of low-cost houses in Gauteng.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa bounced into the black in early trade on Tuesday, buoyed by heavyweight rand hedge stocks which were boosted by a weaker rand. Gold stocks, under pressure because of the lower bullion price, pared the bourse’s gains.
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Ron Ziegler, the former press secretary to President Richard Nixon who famously called the Watergate break-in a ”third-rate burglary,” died on Monday of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 63.
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Clare Short yesterday warned the oil industry there is the risk of more Brent Spar-style consumer boycotts if companies fail to join a global drive to stamp out corruption in the developing world by disclosing the payments they make to governments.
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The White House came under mounting pressure last night to force America’s pharmaceutical companies to accept a deal to provide cheap drugs to poor countries amid fears that the deadlocked global trade talks could end in a repeat of the disastrous Seattle meeting three years ago.
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Nasa engineers examining the break-up of the space shuttle Columbia think a possible cause may have been the clutter of human debris in space.
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The Commonwealth is threatening to split along racial lines over the continuing controversy of whether the organisation should extend Zimbabwe’s suspension.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=11037">Sigh… still no decision on England match</a><br>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=11002&t=1">Zimbabwe decision ducked</a><br>
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So it seems like al-Qaeda muffed it again. It is extraordinary that the president of the US should be inclined to spend so much time, money and energy on trying to snuff out an outfit with the organisational capacity of Laurel and Hardy.
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Zimbabwe, as I allowed myself to imagine in the final days before I went there, would be rowdy and in the terrifying grip of a barbaric militia, brandishing long knives. In my imagination there were images of thousands of frail Zimbabweans thronging the city streets and villages.
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Platinum mining will create employment for the foreseeable future and gold mining appears to have stemmed the haemorrhaging of jobs of the past six years, figures from Department of Minerals and Energy suggest. This in a week when platinum touched a high of $698 an ounce.