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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will formally serve an indictment on axed deputy president Jacob Zuma on Friday. NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said an agreement will be made between Zuma’s lawyers and the authority on who will receive the papers.
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The life of a dairy farmer is long hours and hard graft: awake before dawn, working all day long and unable to rest until the cows come home. But things are changing, thanks to a technology that hands control of the milking process over to an unusual agency — the cows themselves.
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/ 3 November 2005
Google could be turning its impressive and extremely profitable search franchise into a powerful portal based on innovative, interworking web-based software. This is what Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN are doing. Instead, it is dabbling with a wide spectrum of unrelated and apparently incidental playground projects.
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/ 3 November 2005
Chart-topping British singer Robbie Williams will be in South Africa for a three-day national tour next year. He is expected to perform in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, possibly in April. Often referred to as one of the greatest pop icons of our time, Williams has sold more than 40-million albums worldwide.
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The JSE was roaring ahead in noon trade on Thursday after news that United Kingdom-based Vodafone plans to up its stake in local cellular network operator Vodacom to 50% from 35% sparked widespread buying. Trade was brisk — more than R2,8-billion-worth of shares had changed hands.
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/ 3 November 2005
Although fires raging through South Africa are being brought under control, the Working on Fire programme warned on Thursday morning that fire danger has increased in three provinces. It said that in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng the ”high orange” on the fire-danger rating index has risen to red.
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Through an office window at a modern art museum near Bratislava, Nina Zackova watches elegant water birds soar above the Danube and contemplates her remarkably romantic work environment. ”Water, birds, sky,” she says with a sigh. ”This is the most beautiful place to work.” Like 80-million other Europeans who inhabit this grand river valley, Zackova is Danube-dreaming.
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Eighteen people, including three children, are confirmed dead and two are missing after Typhoon Kai Tak battered central Vietnam, officials said on Thursday. ”The typhoon weakened into a tropical depression after battering the central coastal regions,” a flood and storm committee spokesperson said.
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Old Mutual CEO Jim Sutcliffe made it clear on Thursday that the South African financial-services giant has no intention of backing down from its takeover bid for Swedish insurer Skandia, saying the logic for the acquisition remains compelling. He said the deal would give the combined group a strong foothold in four major markets.
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<b>CD OF THE WEEK:</b> Jamie Cullum delivers a slightly more modern sound on his new album than on his previous two, and his subject matter is also a bit more hip — possibly to inject some life into his somewhat staid fan club, writes Riaan Wolmarans. Also new reviews of Jill Scott, Hugh Masikela, Leela James and more.