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/ 21 November 2006
The media walked out en bloc from a briefing due to be staged on Tuesday afternoon by the board of directors of the 2010 World Cup Local Organising Committee. The walkout was agreed upon when none of the board members had arrived for the briefing a matter of 70 minutes after the stipulated ”1pm sharp” starting time at the plush Westcliff Hotel in Johannesburg.
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/ 21 November 2006
”Rogue elements” within law enforcement are apparently spreading disinformation about the Brett Kebble murder probe, the Mercury reported on Tuesday. ”It’s a total nightmare,” National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi told the media.
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/ 21 November 2006
South Africa on Tuesday urged the loser of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) presidential election to accept defeat, while giving the country’s first democratic poll in more than 40 years a broad seal of approval. South Africa’s Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George urged ”the people of [DRC] to accept the outcome of the elections”.
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/ 21 November 2006
The Gauteng government will be considering a ”provincial tax” to ease pressure on resources from inter-provincial migration, provincial minister of finance and economic affairs Paul Mashatile announced on Tuesday. A feasibility study has already been completed and will soon go to the executive council for deliberations, he said in tabling his medium-term budget policy statement.
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/ 21 November 2006
One in six Gauteng adults, or over a million people, run small businesses and the growing diverse sector accounts for 35% of the province’s employment a survey has found, the FinMark Trust said on Tuesday. The survey, commissioned by the Gauteng Enterprise Propeller and the FinMark Trust, aimed at accurate information and better understanding about the small-business sector.
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/ 21 November 2006
Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank still need to exist, but with large-scale reforms, South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday. Manuel was briefing reporters in Pretoria after returning from Australia where he attended the Group of 20 finance ministers’ and central bank governors’ meeting.
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/ 21 November 2006
An auction of South African art has broken local records and raked in over R22-million in Johannesburg, an auctioneer said on Tuesday. Four paintings brought in an average of nearly R3-million each on Monday and the sale still has a day to go, said auctioneer Stephan Welz.
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/ 21 November 2006
Iraq and neighbouring Syria agreed to restore full diplomatic relations on Tuesday in an accord in which Syria accepted that United States troops should stay while the Iraqi government needed them. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem was making the first visit by a Syrian minister to Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
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/ 21 November 2006
Interrogation of the financial viability of the businesses falling under the state arms company, Denel, may expose some skeletons, its CEO, Shaun Liebenberg, has warned MPs. Liebenberg said that as "the interrogation of the financial viability of the businesses deepened, we must accept that skeletons will come out of the closet".
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/ 21 November 2006
South African state-owned enterprises are overall in "a good state" although performance has been uneven in the past financial year, the chairperson of the public enterprises portfolio committee reported on Tuesday. Yunus Carrim also argued that the government was correct to keep these enterprises in state hands.