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/ 28 November 2006
Koos Bekker, outgoing CEO of JSE-listed media group Naspers, said on Tuesday afternoon that the group is "seriously investigating" business opportunities in Russia. Presenting the group’s interim results from Cape Town during a conference call, Bekker told investors and analysts that the group is in talks with potential partners to tap into the Russian market.
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/ 28 November 2006
Raising consumer safety and maximising crime prevention are the targets of a national rail-safety campaign launched on Tuesday, said Metrorail. The campaign focuses on staff riding, train surfing, cable theft and standing behind the yellow safety line, said CEO Lucky Tshepo Montana.
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/ 28 November 2006
West Indies opener Daren Ganga played a lone hand of 77 to keep his team alive in the third and final Test against Pakistan on Tuesday. Ganga steered West Indies to 191-6 at the close on day two with a defiant and unbeaten knock on a slow, low bouncing pitch on which Umar Gul and Danish Kaneria took six wickets.
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/ 28 November 2006
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has asked Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula to explain whether his police national commissioner has been driving around in an impounded stolen vehicle. This follows media reports of impounded vehicles allegedly being used by police officials for work and private purposes.
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/ 28 November 2006
The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) has warned that a looming financial-skills shortage could severely undermine South Africa’s 6% growth ambitions. Kariem Hoosain, CEO of the IRBA, says that, similar to the much-talked about shortage of medical and engineering skills, the financial needs of South Africa’s economy are rapidly outstripping supply.
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/ 28 November 2006
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, PW Botha’s political nemesis, is not prepared to speculate whether the former president is now in heaven or in hell. ”God is the only one who decides,” he told the domestic news agency Sapa in Cape Town on Tuesday.
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/ 28 November 2006
Janet Jackson’s nipple just won’t go away. More than two years after a ”wardrobe malfunction” during a performance at the 2004 Super Bowl resulted in a brief glimpse of a partially covered Jackson breast, United States TV networks and a federal regulatory body have gone to court to determine what can and cannot be seen and heard on American televisions.
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/ 28 November 2006
South African fuels firm De Beers Fuel plans to produce 16 to 24-billion litres of biodiesel a year from algae within five years with an initial investment of R3,5-billion. The company has bought licenses for 40Â 000 hectares to be developed into algae farms and within five years the intention is to increase that land area to 320Â 000 hectares.
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/ 28 November 2006
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday paid warm tribute to the staff of Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. ”God wants you to know just how proud God is of you,” he said at the annual thanksgiving service for the complex’s children’s hospital, of which he and wife Leah are patrons.
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/ 28 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s military has said the country’s cellphone operators are threatening national security by using independent connections to the outside world, official media reported on Tuesday. ”The mobile-service providers have their own international gateway system and … this is dangerous to the state,” Colonel Livingstone Chineka was quoted as saying.