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/ 30 October 2006
World leaders must act urgently to avert a looming environmental catastrophe, the author of a major British report, which sounds a wake-up call on climate change, said on Monday. Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern singled out the United States, China and India as economic powerhouses whose backing is crucial for a global solution.
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/ 30 October 2006
Oil prices slipped below a barrel on Monday on doubts that the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would pursue proposed production cuts and as geopolitical concerns lifted. Light, sweet crude for December fell by 89 cents to ,86 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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/ 30 October 2006
A woman accused of witchcraft died in the Mount Ayliff hospital on Monday after being stoned by an angry mob from a local community, Eastern Cape police said. ”The community kept assaulting her when police arrived but they managed to get her away eventually,” said spokesperson Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta.
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/ 30 October 2006
Cricket South Africa chief executive Gerald Majola announced officially on Monday that Proteas wicketkeeper Mark Boucher had been rewarded for recent good performances by being reinstated as an A+ contract player. ”Mark has regained his A+ contract following some outstanding performances and for his overall contribution …,” Majola said.
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/ 30 October 2006
The Department of Health will announce new medicine-price regulations on Tuesday, a departmental official said on Monday. ”We are on for tomorrow [Tuesday],” said Dr Anban Pillay, the national department’s director for pharmaceutical pricing. He said the Cabinet approved the proposal last week.
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/ 30 October 2006
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has again been rewarded for its coverage of the Oilgate scandal. <i>M&G</i> journalists Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole, together with former staffer Wisani wa ka Ngobeni, share this year’s prestigious Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award with <i>Personal Finance</i>’s Bruce Cameron, it was announced on Sunday evening.
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/ 30 October 2006
Legendary Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, whose close links to Beijing alternatively led to him being called the ”Patriotic Capitalist” or the ”Godfather”, has died in Beijing at the age of 83. Fok, who died on Saturday night, was a vice-chairperson of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and a property tycoon.
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/ 30 October 2006
AngloGold Ashanti, the world’s second-largest gold miner, said on Monday it swung to a profit in the third quarter after the price of gold rose. The Johannesburg, South Africa-based company said net income for the three months through to September 30 came to R1,47-billion, compared with a loss of R1,05-billion in the same period a year earlier.
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/ 30 October 2006
Crime levels on commuter trains are still unacceptable, but the dedicated rail-police unit is making a difference, government and commuter-rail officials said on Monday. They were speaking in Cape Town at the national launch of the South African Police Service Railway Unit, which began operating in the Western Cape in 2004.
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/ 30 October 2006
Flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town will cost about R200 until the end of December on board South Africa’s new domestic airline, Mango, it was announced in Johannesburg on Monday. ”We are getting South Africans to travel,” said Mango’s newly appointed CEO Nico Bezuidenhout.