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/ 21 February 2007
Priority crimes are still too common, Gauteng provincial minister of community safety Firoz Cachalia said on Wednesday in announcing a second Operation Iron Fist. ”Specific types of violent crime remain at unacceptable levels, especially house robberies and business robberies,” Cachalia said in elaborating on Premier Mbhazima Shilowa’s state of the province address two days ago.
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/ 21 February 2007
The JSE was marginally weaker in noon trade on Wednesday, with heavyweight resources stocks coming off. Overall, the market was lacklustre ahead of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Budget speech at 2pm. By 12.06pm, the all-share index eased 0,12%.
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/ 21 February 2007
One of the men who allegedly killed historian David Rattray is also under investigation for raping two young teenagers at gunpoint and armed robbery, the media reported on Wednesday. This emerged on Tuesday in the Dundee Magistrate’s Court during the bail application of Simphiwe Ndlovu (25).
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/ 21 February 2007
The year 2006 proved to be a profitable year for Anglo American and this is evident in the record hike of 46% they achieved in earnings. The company said in a statement on Wednesday that the hike earned them an increase of ,5-billion. The company also achieved an operating profit increase of 54%, which amounts to ,8-billion.
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/ 21 February 2007
Officials from President Thabo Mbeki’s office and the South African secret service are likely to be called to testify in a case against eight men who were allegedly involved in an Equatorial Guinea coup plot. State advocate Torie Pretorius SC on Wednesday asked the Pretoria Regional Court for a postponement to call officials from the president’s office and the secret service.
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/ 21 February 2007
World number one Tiger Woods knows all too well that his seven-event win streak in United States PGA-sanctioned events faces its sternest test at the WGC Match-Play Championship. The 64-man showdown starts on Wednesday when overall top seed Woods meets fellow American JJ Henry.
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/ 21 February 2007
The increase in South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank for its inflation target, was up 5,3% year-on-year in January from 5% in December, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 21 February 2007
Australia’s battered and beaten one-day cricket side limped home on Wednesday insisting their World Cup defence was on track despite an unprecedented 3-0 series pasting from the Black Caps in New Zealand. Australia’s winless New Zealand campaign, dubbed a ”blackwash” by the media, followed two losses to England in the domestic tri-series final.
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/ 21 February 2007
Overcoming heat, kidnap threats, land mines and border snafus, three runners from Taiwan, Canada and the United States have completed their six-nation, 7 300km cross-Sahara ultra-endurance marathon in 111 days, a Taiwan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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/ 21 February 2007
Zimbabwe’s veteran leader Robert Mugabe reiterated on Tuesday there was no vacancy for the country’s presidency, warning ambitious government colleagues to stop jostling to succeed him. In a defiant interview marking his 83rd birthday, Mugabe also lashed out at ”corrupt” ministers in his Cabinet.