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/ 27 February 2007
South African low-cost carrier kulula.com is to replace its entire fleet by the end of the year, the airline said on Tuesday. The new fleet of Boeing 737-400 aircraft will reduce the airline’s cost per seat by 8% and allow kulula.com to add 160Â 000 additional seats into the market per annum, it said in a statement.
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/ 27 February 2007
Nashua Mobile, the independent cellular service provider in the listed Reunert Group, on Tuesday signalled its intention to become a major player in South Africa’s broadband and internet service-provider market by launching its new Nashua Mobile Internet division.
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/ 27 February 2007
Dutch soccer coach Guus Hiddink was convicted on Tuesday of tax evasion, fined  000 and given a six-month suspended prison sentence. He will not serve any time behind bars. Prosecutors had sought a 10-month prison sentence, but judges at a court in the central city of Den Bosch said there were mitigating factors.
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/ 27 February 2007
Roger Federer took over the number one ranking in men’s tennis more than three years ago, and he shows no signs of letting it go. The 10-time Grand Slam champion reached a new milestone on Monday when he broke Jimmy Connors’s 30-year-old mark with his 161st week at the top of the ATP rankings.
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/ 27 February 2007
United States Vice-President Dick Cheney said the suicide bombing at the gate of a US air base he was visiting in Afghanistan on Tuesday made a "loud boom" and drove him briefly into a bomb shelter. But Cheney said it was "never an option" to scrap plans to go on to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where he later held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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/ 27 February 2007
South Africa’s economic growth rate quickened to 5,6% in the fourth quarter of 2006 on a seasonally adjusted and annualised basis, compared to 4,7% in the third quarter, official data showed on Tuesday. The number was well above a forecast from a Reuters poll of economists last week, which saw the economy growing by an unchanged 4,7%.
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/ 27 February 2007
South African blue-chips slid 1,5% on Tuesday on worries about growth in China and a newspaper report the government could slap a windfall tax on miners. The Johannesburg Top 40 index of blue-chip stocks fell 1,51% to 23 917,93 points by 9.18am GMT, tripping off Monday’s high.
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/ 27 February 2007
Gun owners wishing to renew their gun licences will be able to do so by taking a test on the internet, a computer-based testing company said on Tuesday. ”With the introduction of the e-Test, it will be the first time that existing gun owners and first-time applicants can take the required test via computer,” said spokesperson Lyn van Haght.
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/ 27 February 2007
South African tourism statistics for 2006 show a 14,5% increase in tourism arrivals compared with 2005 figures, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday. ”What we have achieved together is reflected in the exponential growth of South Africa’s tourism industry since our transition to democracy in 1994,” Van Schalkwyk said.
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/ 27 February 2007
Britain has launched a "reconciliation" drive to undermine support for the Taliban after Whitehall strategists concluded that a decisive military victory in Afghanistan cannot be won. Senior British officials have stopped talking about winning a war. "We do not use the word ‘win’," one said. "We can’t kill our way out of this problem."