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A debilitating strike which affects health services in Mpumalanga is continuing on Wednesday, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said. Provincial spokesperson Norman Mokoena said a meeting between the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union and Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla deadlocked on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 8 November 2006
Management jargon can alienate staff and leave bosses looking untrustworthy and weak, according to a survey published on Monday. Managers who spoke of ”singing from the same hymn sheet” could find themselves singing solo, the survey by Investors in People said.
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/ 8 November 2006
The JSE was softer midday on Wednesday with dealers saying most stocks were overbought during Tuesday’s bull run. However, selective buying was giving the market underlying support. At 12.05pm, the all-share and industrial indices were down 0,63% and 0,08% respectively.
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/ 8 November 2006
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will cooperate with the South African Human Rights Commission on the use of appropriate sign language on television news programmes, the public broadcaster said on Wednesday. The use of sign language on SABC1 and SABC2 is reportedly not linguistically correct.
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/ 8 November 2006
Africa’s biggest stock market, the JSE, celebrated its 119th anniversary on Wednesday. The exchange was born in a humble miner’s tent in 1887, a mere year after the gold rush hit the Witwatersrand. It created an economic crucible in an infant Johannesburg and, in the 119 years since then, this has not changed.
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/ 8 November 2006
Nancy Pelosi, a hate figure for the Republican right, is poised to become the first woman speaker in United States Congressional history after the Democrats election triumph. The pro-abortion, anti-war Pelosi’s elevation to the number three position in the US Constitution is all but certain after the Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994.
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/ 8 November 2006
Tennis great Roger Federer said he hoped to find time for a beer with Tiger Woods while both are in Shanghai this weekend. Federer is playing in the season-ending Masters Cup while Woods is here for Asia’s richest golf event, the five-million-dollar HSBC Champions tournament.
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/ 8 November 2006
Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting offered to apologise on Wednesday to any Indian officials who felt insulted by his team’s victory celebrations after the Champions Trophy final this week. Ponting, visibly impatient after the long presentation ceremony, gestured towards Pawar with his forefinger, asking him to quickly give away the trophy.
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/ 8 November 2006
In true Glaswegian style, Alex Ferguson claimed his side’s League Cup ”smack in the face” from Southend could actually bolster the club’s bid for glory on bigger stages this season. Ferguson watched in barely disguised fury as Manchester United fan Freddy Eastwood gave the struggling Championship outfit a 1-0 win in Tuesday night’s encounter.
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We live in a volatile environment. Currency, stock-market and political volatility are all part and parcel of daily life in South Africa. Unfortunately — and understandably — this volatility contributes to enormous swings in the sentiment of South Africans themselves.