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/ 8 November 2006
French wines and spirits group Pernod Ricard said on Tuesday it would launch what it said would be the world’s most expensive champagne. ”It will cost around €1 000 ( 276) a bottle. We won’t do many cases and won’t be offering it here,” chairperson Patrick Ricard told the company’s annual shareholders meeting.
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/ 8 November 2006
Feeling Kate Mossed? Fancy a Britney down at the Battle? For those wondering why Brits have suddenly become as baffling as Martians speaking in tongues, help is at hand. A new book reveals all and Duncan Black, who helped to compile Shame About the Boat Race — Modern Guide to Rhyming Slang steers readers through a baffling conversational code.
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/ 8 November 2006
Although credit and debit cards are more convenient and safer than cash, you still have to be vigilant to protect your card from criminals. According to FNB Credit Card CEO Jan Kleynhans, there are more than four-million FNB credit and debit cards in circulation in South Africa. Of these, about 10 000 credit cards are reported lost or stolen every month.
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/ 8 November 2006
In the year 2006 we have received clear signals from you, our readers, about the things that irk, worry and upset you as you go about your day-to-day duties. As we mentioned before in this space, we picked up a message from teachers that they are miserable about their earnings.
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/ 8 November 2006
Terry Volkwyn, CEO of Primedia Broadcasting, has been named the 2006 Boss of the Year. The award, which is organised by Career Success (published by Dictum Publishers) and celebrates its 17th anniversary this year, recognises bosses’ attention to the needs of their workforce and their leadership skills.
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/ 8 November 2006
White British youths are more likely to believe they are superior to those from other races, and their attitudes are more of a barrier to integration than those of Muslims, a study for the United Kingdom government has found. The findings turn on its head the current debate about integration, where a succession of Cabinet ministers have told Muslims they must do more to fit in.
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/ 8 November 2006
Hundreds of people will soon be heading to various beachfronts, rivers and dams to cool off as part of the summer holidays. Sadly, many will return home in body bags. According to the Medical Research Council’s latest data, drowning is the second-highest cause of death by injury, and 61% of drownings occur in the sea, lakes and dams.
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/ 8 November 2006
With a lack of faith in the police seeming to have escalated in certain suburbs of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, citizens have lately resorted to taking the law into their own hands, and meting out rough justice to alleged criminals. This has resulted in a body count of more than 20 since August.
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/ 8 November 2006
Mittal Steel South Africa on Wednesday said it knew nothing of planned protests by its workers’ union over high steel prices. The National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) on Tuesday said it was adamant it would ”mobilise a series of work stoppages, demonstrations, including general strikes in protest against steel price increases”.
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/ 8 November 2006
Three South African projects will be competing in the Commonwealth Good Practice awards, which will be announced for the first time during the 16th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Cape Town during December. An education good practice is an “education programme which has made a positive difference to the status or condition of primary school children, their teachers or the education system of a country”.