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/ 21 December 2006
Thousands of passengers were stranded on Thursday as heavy fog in southern England grounded hundreds of flights during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. About 500 people spent the night at London’s Heathrow airport after British Airways cancelled all domestic and some European flights to and from the airport due to poor visibility.
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/ 21 December 2006
The City of Cape Town has called on residents to save water in the light of the soaring summer temperatures, the city’s Water Demand Management Services said on Thursday. Spokesperson Danie Kloppers said the city had passed two new by-laws this year aimed at promoting permanent good water-management practices.
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/ 21 December 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest level in four years following a series of scandals involving the governing African National Congress party, a poll showed on Thursday. The poll, by the Johannesburg-based Research Surveys, showed that Mbeki has a 53% approval rating, 8% down on the figure recorded six months ago.
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/ 21 December 2006
Forget fund flows and profit predictions, 2007 is about ”fire sitting on water”. Buy oil, avoid metals, and don’t get your fingers burned. Feng shui experts steeped in the ancient Chinese knowledge of geomancy, or natural energies, see a turbulent year ahead for both markets and mankind.
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/ 21 December 2006
The Angola government launched a plan on Wednesday to halve the number of cases of malaria by the end of the decade in a country where up to 30Â 000 people are thought to die of the disease every year. ”Malaria is the deadliest disease in Angola,” Health Minister Sebastiao Veloso told a press conference.
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/ 21 December 2006
The largest oil operator in Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, began evacuating hundreds of expatriate staff dependants from the Niger Delta on Thursday after militants planted a car bomb in a residential compound. The withdrawal began hours after armed militants stormed an oil facility operated by France’s Total in the delta’s Rivers state, killing three people, police said.
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/ 21 December 2006
The Zimbabwean state has started another "blitzkrieg" — this time on businesses, threatening to take 51% of the equity in all foreign-owned concerns, the country’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) economics adviser Eddie Cross has said. Cross said there are already signs that foreign businesses are withdrawing from the embattled state.
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/ 21 December 2006
The JSE continued its journey into record territory on Thursday morning, fuelled by buying related to the futures close-out, which got under way at noon. Trade was brisk with over R4-billion-worth of shares changing hands. By 12.01pm, the all-share index was up 0,71%.
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/ 21 December 2006
A cross-party committee chaired by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos proposed that legislative elections take place in Angola in 2008 and a presidential vote in 2009, officials said on Thursday. Both elections had been expected to be held next year but the Council of the Republic unanimously agreed on a new timeframe at a meeting on Wednesday night, according to a statement.
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/ 21 December 2006
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) rose by 10% year-on-year (y/y) in November from a 10% year-on-year (y/y) increase in October, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Thursday. The PPI increased 0,5% on a monthly basis after October’s monthly increase of 1%.