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/ 31 October 2006
Gauteng concession company Bombela has not allocated any work on the Gautrain project to companies linked to Schabir Shaik, according to a statement issued on Monday. The statement said Nkobi Holdings and Kobitech Transport Systems were among the companies listed on the Gautrain prospective supplier database.
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/ 31 October 2006
Visitors to Morocco have often been tempted by pictures with the proverbial palm tree somewhere in the frame. But fewer and fewer of these trees are now around, and at this rate of decline the visitors of the future might not find any at all. The picture is changing; it is now of the Sahara desert advancing into once-green stretches.
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/ 31 October 2006
War veterans in the Zimbabwe Midlands have asked President Robert Mugabe to help stop senior ruling-party officials from evicting the few remaining white farmers in the province. The war veterans were at the forefront in spearheading the government’s violent land-seizure programme that began in 2000.
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/ 31 October 2006
Christmas is around the corner, so please your loved ones with music by their favourite artists.
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/ 31 October 2006
Um Ahmad, as she was known to the girls, had it all planned out. From Baghdad to the border and on to Damascus and a new life, Mona and her three Iraqi friends didn’t need to worry about a thing. The job in the textiles factory outside the Syrian capital would pay $300 a month.
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/ 31 October 2006
Women in the motoring industry are looked upon as token appointments who couldn’t possibly have a passion for cars, who couldn’t possibly enjoy the thrill of pushing a car to the edge of its abilities. It all gets a bit tiresome sometimes and it is for this reason that I felt slightly better about life, the universe and everything else at a recent Subaru vehicle launch, writes Sukasha Singh.
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/ 31 October 2006
An announced but not yet "cemented" BEE deal allows me to hold up to the light an interesting facet of BEE involving foreign investors. Some have asked whether the intended sale by Swiss cement company Holcim of most of its stake in its South African subsidiary to a BEE consortium is "disinvestment", writes Reg Rumney.
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/ 31 October 2006
There are some very important aspects of the Civil Unions Bill that have been ignored in the public debate about the proposed legislation. If it is passed into law, it will have tangible benefits for a particularly vulnerable group who currently have no recourse to the law to protect their rights. Consequently, they frequently suffer extreme hardship and economic abuse.
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/ 31 October 2006
South African bosses’ pay is on the rise, despite many critics arguing that top executives take home too much of the pie. The average CEO in South Africa took home R5,35-million last year, up from R4,3-million the previous year. Human capital management company Mabili says in its annual report on directors’ remuneration that directors received robust increases in pay last year.
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/ 31 October 2006
The widespread use of prepaid services by South African households has thrown up lucrative business opportunities for banks to bring previously un-banked people into the financial services loop. Prepaid electricity and Telkom airtime — introduced in April 2006 this year — is increasingly becoming a key cellphone banking volume transaction driver.