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/ 25 November 2005
The Bush administration decided not to charge Jose Padilla with planning to detonate a radioactive ”dirty bomb” in a United States city because the evidence against him was extracted using torture on members of al-Qaeda, it was claimed on Thursday. The administration had used his case as evidence of the continued threat posed by al-Qaeda inside the United States.
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/ 25 November 2005
Listed South African media group Primedia on Friday reported that it achieved turnover growth of 27% for the four months to 31 October 2005. Providing a business update on Friday, CEO William Kirsch said this was a combination of excellent organic and innovative growth, as well as the benefits of acquisitions concluded this year.
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/ 25 November 2005
The Congress of South African Trade Union has qualified its support for African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma pending the outcome of the rape allegations against him. Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has said that they would review their support for Zuma if the rape matter went to court.
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/ 25 November 2005
About 85% of the companies licensed to longline fish for tuna in local waters have question marks against their fishing rights. They include nine Korean ships operating in South Africa with local joint-venture partners, despite apparent evidence that they were granted quotas by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s Marine and Coastal Management.
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/ 25 November 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The police forensic laboratory in Pretoria that is testing DNA samples obtained from the complainant in the rape claim against African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma is being heavily guarded to ensure that crucial evidence is not tampered with or the results leaked.
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/ 25 November 2005
South Africa’s low-cost, no-frills airline, kulula.com, wants to cut high Southern African ticket prices by at least 50%, but it is battling to get rights to routes that have restricted flight frequencies and seat capacity. kulula’s executive director, Gidon Novick, says regional routes are controlled by agreements between countries. These generally only allow one airline carrier.
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/ 25 November 2005
The City of Johannesburg is saving millions of rands through the use of its own high-speed wireless telecommunication network, which connects more than 500 municipal buildings. So dramatic are the cost savings that the capital costs of establishing the network have been paid in just three months.
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/ 25 November 2005
On December 12 last year, two days after the end of the Sixteen Days of Activism campaign, an editorial in a weekly South African newspaper posed the question: "So the seventh 16 Days of Activism campaign has come and gone, and what has changed?
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/ 25 November 2005
It may never have been his intention, but Sizwe Nxasana, the incoming CEO of First Rand Retail, could very well be employment equity and black economic empowerment’s knight in shining black armour. Nxasana, better known for his seven-and-a-half-year stint as Telkom’s CEO, says he owes his rise to the measures put in place after 1994 to redress the race-based economic divide.
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/ 25 November 2005
There is a revolution spreading countrywide. It is happening in towns and cities as disparate as Knysna and Johannesburg, in big places like Durban, Cape Town and Tshwane, and small ones like Stellenbosch. At least 34 other muncipalities are also in on the game, racing to set up their own telecommunication networks.