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/ 16 September 2005
Jeffrey’s Bay, the well known Western Cape surfing destination, is to be the site of a new R1,2-billion commercial and residential development being planned by Buchner Propvest, the company said on Friday. The first phase of the development, targeting 150ha of the total 600ha site, is due to start later this year.
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/ 16 September 2005
"This morning, I forgot it was my birthday until one of the Oxfam staff wished me a happy birthday. I never expected to be celebrating my 42nd birthday at the United Nations World Summit in New York," Wednesday was the opening day of the UN World Summit and the media here were flat-out covering speech after speech by world leaders.
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/ 16 September 2005
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board has commended the South African government and South African Reserve Bank for their macro-economic polices, which have resulted in strong economic growth, low inflation, good fiscal policy management and a marked improvement in foreign reserves.
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/ 16 September 2005
Nintendo thinks it has the answer for people scared off by all the complex switches and buttons on home video-game controllers — a simpler device that looks like a TV remote control and can be waved like a wand — or a baseball bat. The Japanese game maker showed the gadget planned for its next-generation home machine called Revolution at the Tokyo Game Show outside Tokyo on Friday.
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/ 16 September 2005
Music giants Universal, EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and their local subsidiaries are suing China’s largest search engine Baidu for allegedly infringing the copyright of hundreds of songs, the company said on Friday. The music companies allege Baidu has made it easy for users to download illegal copies of their songs via its MP3 search engine.
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/ 16 September 2005
Residents in the Hartbeespoort Dam area northwest of Johannesburg this week discovered a pipe dumping raw sewage into the dam, media reports said on Friday. It said the pipe was several hundred metres from the Madibeng local authority’s water-purification plant.
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/ 16 September 2005
Everton’s miserable start to the season suffered a new low on Thursday when they slipped to a humiliating 5-1 defeat at the hands of Dynamo Bucharest in their UEFA Cup first round, first leg tie. The defeat came in the wake of their elimination in the Champions League qualifying round by Villarreal and followed a depressing start to the Premiership where they are third from bottom.
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/ 16 September 2005
Toshiba said on Friday it has developed two small fuel cell prototypes that can dramatically increase the playing time for mobile music players. A fuel cell unit the size of a pack of chewing gum can power a flash-memory-based player for about 35 hours on a single charge, using highly concentrated methanol as its fuel, the Japanese technology giant said.
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/ 16 September 2005
A new Australasian Provincial Competition rugby series will kick off next year with the possible future addition of teams from Japan, the Australian Rugby Union said on Friday. The competition will comprise Australia’s four Super 14 teams — Queensland Reds, NSW Waratahs, ACT Brumbies and Western Force — playing in a home and away series with a final in a five-week June-July window from 2006.
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/ 16 September 2005
Smuts Ngonyama, who heads the Presidency in the African National Congress, intervened with government regulators to smooth the way for Bato Star, a fishing company in which his family — and allegedly he — holds interests. The company was struggling for permission for its newly purchased trawler, the Sandile, to fish in South African waters, and Ngonyama arranged the meeting between Bato Star and government officials.