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/ 21 October 2005
When Google commanded per share in its August 2004 initial public offering, the prospect of the stock quadrupling in less than 15 months ago seemed inconceivable. It doesn’t appear far-fetched now: Google’s shares hit a new all-time high early on Friday, rising by ,69 to ,89 in morning New York Stock Exchange trading.
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/ 21 October 2005
Hospital managers will ensure in future that their facilities are clean and tidy at all times, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Friday. This was one of the outcomes of a two-day workshop in Pretoria between managers and government officials to find ways of improving service delivery.
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/ 21 October 2005
A 93-year-old driver apparently suffering from dementia fatally struck a pedestrian and drove for 4,8km with the man’s body through his windshield, police said. Ralph Parker was stopped after he drove through a toll booth on the Sunshine Skyway, traffic homicide investigator Michael Jockers said.
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/ 21 October 2005
Business in Tanzania’s commercial capital has been brought to a near-standstill by massive power failures that have left about 30% of the city without electricity, officials said on Friday. Many parts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, have gone without power for two days.
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/ 21 October 2005
For all the achievements of the past decade, the struggle for a free media continues, the African National Congress said on Friday. The country marked Media Freedom Day this week, and the challenge is to build a robust, free and diverse media at a time when the market, not the state, is posing the greatest threat to media freedom, the party said.
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/ 21 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki himself is to blame for the destructive power struggle that is going on in the ruling African National Congress, says official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. He says South Africa is facing a potential constitutional crisis because of the struggle for power within the ANC itself.
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/ 21 October 2005
National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general Billy Masetlha has been suspended by Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils pending the outcome of an inquiry. Kasrils has also suspended two other senior NIA officials for allegedly placing businessman Saki Macozoma under illegal surveillance.
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/ 21 October 2005
With too many weapons, too little food and three factions vying for control, Somalia’s anarchy is fast overwhelming its new government even before it can establish itself in the country. The competition for power could combine with a potential humanitarian crisis for a repeat of the disaster that followed the collapse of Somalia’s last regime in 1991.
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/ 21 October 2005
A baby elephant was euthanised in Hammanskraal on Thursday when its organs failed almost a month after it was severely burnt in a wildfire at the Pilanesberg National Park in September. The elephant was the fourth put down because of the severity of its injuries. Two burnt elephants died shortly after being taken to the trauma centre.
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/ 21 October 2005
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said the amount of foreign reconstruction aid promised after the devastating South Asian quake is ”totally inadequate”. Musharraf was quoted by the British Broadcasting Corporation as saying that Pakistan needed about -billion in disaster aid but the international community had pledged only around -million.