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/ 15 November 2006
He has received an R8 000 speeding fine travelling from Durban to Johannesburg in a Porsche 911 Turbo at a speed of 180kph, and a cop once gave him a warning "and was very nice about it". Former Mr South Africa Paul Phume talks to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about his Aston Martin.
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/ 15 November 2006
Wireless broadband provider iBurst has struck a deal with listed telecommunications company Datapro and consumer-focused ISP @lantic Internet Services, the company said on Wednesday. iBurst has a subscriber base of almost 30Â 000 and this has the potential to grow significantly with the partnership.
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/ 15 November 2006
In its November country report on Lesotho, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that while the country had made good progress towards macroeconomic stability, economic activity needed to pick up speed and the medium-term fiscal position needed to be strengthened.
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/ 15 November 2006
A massive earthquake struck in the northern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning for the coasts of Japan and Russia. The earthquake registered 8,1 on the Richter scale at 8.15pm (11.15am GMT) in the Pacific, about 600km north-east of Japan’s main northern island of Hokkaido.
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/ 15 November 2006
The JSE was just managing to keep its head above water in noon trade on Wednesday after a choppy morning’s trade on which stronger world markets and lower precious metals prices vied for supremacy. By 12.03pm, the all-share index was up 0,08%. Industrials and financials climbed 0,29% and 0,47% respectively, but the banks index lost 0,51%.
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/ 15 November 2006
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan launched a plan on Wednesday to help Africa fight global warming, and criticised a ”frightening lack of leadership” in confronting what he called one of the world’s biggest threats.
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/ 15 November 2006
The Zambian government has appealed to the supreme court to allow the deportation of a British writer who has been accused of defaming President Levy Mwanawasa, an official said on Wednesday. The government initially ordered that Roy Clarke be deported after he called Mwanawasa ”Mawelewele” or a ‘fool’.
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/ 15 November 2006
Leaders from Africa’s main trading bloc on Wednesday opened a summit in Djibouti to mull ways of forming a unified customs system for its 21-member states. Six presidents and a prime minister will explore possibilities of putting in place the commons unions for their markets by 2008.
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/ 15 November 2006
German stock market operator Deutsche Boerse on Wednesday said it had withdrawn its takeover offer for pan-European rival Euronext. The German operator had been battling to convince its Paris-based rival of the logic of a tie-up in the face of a rival takeover offer, preferred by Euronext management, from the New York Stock Exchange.
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/ 15 November 2006
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will next year draft hundreds of graduates of the government’s controversial youth militia programme into the civil service, but to solely campaign for his ruling Zanu-PF party and bolster its support among young Zimbabweans, sources told ZimOnline.