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/ 1 November 2005
Ukhamba Holdings, the black economic empowerment shareholder of Imperial Holdings Limited, on Tuesday announced the distribution of its first dividend of R1,8-million to 15 000 previously disadvantaged employees of the Imperial group. Ukhamba empowers Imperial’s previously disadvantaged employees.
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/ 1 November 2005
African leaders and diplomats have resolved to continue pressing for United Nations Security Council reforms to include two permanent seats with veto power for the continent — a position that has held up the reform process in the past. The statement was issued by 48 African heads of state and officials attending a meeting on Monday.
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/ 1 November 2005
Combative All Blacks scrumhalf Byron Kelleher said the New Zealand team are itching for their ”massive” grand-slam tour to kick off. The Kiwis start their tour on Saturday against Wales and go on to play Ireland, England and Scotland. They have not defeated the four home nations in quick succession since 1978.
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/ 1 November 2005
George Best’s condition improved further on Monday, with doctors reporting that the ailing British football legend could be out of intensive care this week. Doctors said Best is slowly getting better — but friends warned the ex-Northern Ireland midfielder is in terrible pain.
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/ 1 November 2005
A strategy to undertake the momentous task of hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup and producing a home team that can acquit itself with credit in the tournament was launched by the South African Football Association (Safa) executive at a three-day indaba in Magaliesburg over the weekend.
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/ 1 November 2005
At least 20 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra late on Monday, an interior ministry source said. ”Twenty people, mostly civilians, were killed and 45 wounded in the car-bomb attack in a crowded market in Basra,” the source said in Baghdad, citing police reports from Basra.
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/ 1 November 2005
Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble space telescope suggest. Pluto, discovered as the ninth planet in 1930, was thought to be alone until its moon Charon was spotted in 1978. The new moons, more than twice as far away as Charon and many times fainter, were spotted by Hubble in May.
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/ 1 November 2005
Microsoft is widely expected to announce on Tuesday further forays into software and services that can be accessed over the internet — a growing competitive arena that some say could eventually threaten Microsoft’s biggest cash cows. The software behemoth is facing increasing competition from companies such as Google and Yahoo!.
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/ 1 November 2005
South Africa’s contribution to the technological development of the pebble-bed modular reactor has been described as ”important” in the context of finding clean alternative fuels by the new British high commissioner to South Africa, Paul Boateng. He was speaking at a Cape Town Press Club function on the critical issue of global warming.
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/ 1 November 2005
The normally genteel world of Bavarian folk dancing was on Monday at the centre of a bitter row over its limited role in the opening ceremony for the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Germany. Members of Bavaria’s folk-dancing association are incensed that they have been allocated just 45 seconds to perform during the opening ceremony.