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/ 24 November 2005
The M&G‘s ”green team” has taken on environmental issues with the same vigour as the paper tackles human-rights abuses, writes Fiona Macleod.
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/ 24 November 2005
Weekly Mail staff were charting new waters when they created the first electronically produced newspaper.
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/ 24 November 2005
Peter Preston, former editor of the Guardian, recalls the birth and growth of the Mail & Guardian.
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/ 24 November 2005
Investment holding group Remgro on Thursday reported a 17,9% increase in headline earnings per share from 491,4 cents to 579,4 cents for the six months ended September. It said the increase was favourably impacted by a share-repurchase programme.
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/ 24 November 2005
South African food and pharmaceutical group Tiger Brands on Thursday reported a 32% increase in its diluted headline earnings per share for the year to September 2005 to 975,4 cents from 737,3 cents previously. The group also declared a total dividend per share for the 2005 financial year of 500 cents.
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/ 24 November 2005
Kenya’s opposition on Thursday demanded that embattled President Mwai Kibaki dissolve Parliament and call snap elections after he fired his Cabinet in response to the embarrassing rejection this week of a new Constitution he backed. At the same time, debate raged over the firings, with some saying the step was illegal.
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/ 24 November 2005
Journalists in several Arab capitals on Thursday staged protests over reports that Unied States President George W. Bush wanted to attack Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera’s Doha headquarters. Dozens of staff turned out for a symbolic sit-in at the Doha headquarters, with similar protests at the channel’s foreign bureaux.
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/ 24 November 2005
France coach Bernard Laporte has a simple plan to counter South Africa: keep hold of the ball. Laporte says that because of the Springboks’ counter-attacking speed, along with their physical strength, Les Tricolores must keep possession at the Stade de France on Saturday. ”We will need to be very wary and make sure we keep hold of the ball,” Laporte said on Thursday at the French training camp.
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/ 24 November 2005
Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks has launched a R106-million scheme to help the gold manufacturing jewellery industry in South Africa. Aimed at reducing ”the current high cost of financing gold working capital” in South Africa, the scheme is part of the offsets of the Hawk and Gripen fighter aircraft component of South Africa’s controversial arms deal.
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/ 24 November 2005
No stone will be left unturned in the search for the truth behind alleged abuses in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. Mbeki urged members of the country’s intelligence services to aid inquiries, led by the inspector general and minister of intelligence, into these ”disturbing matters”.