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/ 15 December 2006
The JSE was in positive territory just before noon on Friday, boosted by firmer world markets and basket buying ahead of next Thursday’s futures close-out. The market was extremely quiet, however, with only R1,5-billion-worth of shares changing hands. Bt 11.48am, the all-share index added 0,44%.
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/ 15 December 2006
If we were not becoming weirdly accustomed to checking Forbes’s billionaires list whenever a football club announces take-over talks, it would feel more bizarre, freakish even, to find Liverpool arguing they are a perfect fit for the investment vehicle of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
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/ 15 December 2006
Even those of us who have been critical of Nicky Boje over the years had to blanch this week as the national selectors cut his throat, tied him to their chariot and dragged him around the walls of the Wanderers. He may have spent much of his Test career rivalling Ashley Giles for the title of the most innocuous left-armer in the game, but nobody deserves to have his dignity mutilated like that.
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/ 15 December 2006
”If Milan are what we saw tonight, then it’s total darkness, as we were awful.” Congratulations to AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti for the most frank assessment of any of the Champions League teams in Friday’s draw for the knockout stage. It sums up their season.
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/ 15 December 2006
Defending South African Airways (SAA) Open champion Retief Goosen was three strokes clear of the field with two holes of his first round to play before an 11 on the 17th saw him finish two behind the leaders at Humewood Golf Club on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2006
Google on Friday will join the crowded field of services registering website addresses in a move aimed at encouraging more usage of the online search leader’s free software products. Google’s service will charge a annual fee and only handle addresses ending in four suffixes — ”.com,” ”.net,” ”.biz” and ”.info”.
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/ 15 December 2006
Convicted robber and ”people’s poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli has appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court for allegedly assaulting his wife, the Daily Sun reported on Friday. Mbuli allegedly grabbed his wife by her shirt and dragged her for a few metres when she refused to give him her car keys on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2006
Linda Barron, the former CEO of the Comrades Marathon Association, has been acquitted of culpable homicide and drunken-driving charges in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court, the Mercury reported on Friday. A popular Cape Town-based musician was killed after being struck by Barron’s car.
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/ 15 December 2006
Campaigners in the United States have renewed calls for the abolition of the death penalty after a convicted murderer took more than 30 minutes to die and needed a second dose of lethal chemicals. ”They executed him twice,” said Mark Elliot, director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
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/ 15 December 2006
If you are reading this as you surf the internet while the television is on, the radio is playing and you are listening to music on your personal stereo, you are already tapping into the American way of media multitasking. Census data released on Friday forecasts that Americans will spend about five months consuming various media next year.