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/ 22 November 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the chief mediator in war-torn Côte d’Ivoire, arrived in the country on Tuesday for talks on choosing a new prime minister to unblock the peace process. Mbeki will meet with Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo and Niger President Mamadou Tandja.
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/ 22 November 2005
Kenyan voters appear to have rejected a proposed new Constitution in a landmark referendum after a vitriolic campaign that deeply split the East African country, an election official said on Tuesday. In a major blow to President Mwai Kibaki, the official said near-complete results showed the ”no”-vote with an insurmountable lead.
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/ 22 November 2005
The JSE was slightly weaker just before noon on Tuesday as a stronger rand and continued profit taking offset the positive effect of higher commodity prices. By 11.53am, the all share and all share industrial indices shed 0,14% and 0,17% respectively. Financials fell 0,43% and the banks index was 0,72% in the red.
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/ 22 November 2005
Anyone who snagged one of Microsoft’s new Xbox 360s at its Tuesday debut will likely see the new video-game console as just that — a medium for spending hours playing the likes of Halo II and Project Gotham Racing III. But executives at Microsoft see video games as just the beginning.
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/ 22 November 2005
Closing nine plants and laying off thousands of workers will only exacerbate General Motors’ (GM) woes, the auto maker’s main union said Monday. The plant closures in Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Canada announced by the auto maker on Monday will result in the loss of 30 000 jobs.
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/ 22 November 2005
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance and its Mozambican counterpart, Renamo, have agreed to sign a record of understanding in the new year, the two parties announced on Tuesday. This follows a visit by DA leader Tony Leon to Mozambique to hold talks with Renamo, headed by Afonso Dhlakama.
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/ 22 November 2005
As France ponders why its still-smoldering suburbs erupted into three weeks of sustained rioting, one culprit singled out for blame is the soulless, high-rise concrete jungles ringing the country’s major cities. Add last summer’s fatal fires in rundown Paris tenements, and suddenly affordable, livable public housing is a front-burner issue.
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/ 22 November 2005
Both the media and the Western Cape Directorate for Public Prosecutions got a lashing in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday — the media for sensational coverage of the shoplifting case against the son of Cape Town mayor Normaindia Mfeketo, and the directorate for incompetence.
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/ 22 November 2005
A handful of residents of Kleinskool in Port Elizabeth were still burning tyres in the streets by 9am on Tuesday morning, in protest over alleged poor service delivery, Eastern Cape police said. Inspector Johan van Greunen said 10 people from the area set the tyres alight early in the morning.
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/ 22 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s beleaguered national airline has grounded its entire fleet of planes due to lack of fuel, a state-controlled newspaper reported on Tuesday. Angry passengers bound for destinations including Johannesburg and Singapore found themselves stranded on Monday at Harare’s main airport following the flight cancellations, the Herald reported.