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Kaizer Chiefs walloped Inter Club of Angola 3-0 in an international friendly played at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday. All the goals were scored in the first half. The scorers were Kaizer Motaung Junior, Shoes Moshoeu and Rene Richards.
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/ 9 February 2005
Canadian junior miner Platinum Group Metals, or PTM, is hoping to start mining platinum in South Africa within five years, PTM CEO Michael Jones said this week at the Mining Indaba. PTM’s key asset is its joint venture with world number one platinum-miner Anglo Platinum (AngloPlat).
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/ 9 February 2005
The absence of broad-based black ownership of the South African economy may lead to economic insecurity and possibly even political instability, says Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. "I believe that the absence of broad-based black ownership might result in political alienation, economic insecurity and, possibly, even political instability," he said.
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/ 9 February 2005
For the moment, world number one diamond-miner De Beers has no plans to move the venue of its main sight from London where its marketing arm, the Diamond Trading Company, has its headquarters, De Beers group MD Gary Ralfe said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2005
The psychiatry head of the Gauteng health department will consult a mentally ill woman after she attacked a fellow patient at a hospital. Departmental spokesperson Popo Maja said on Tuesday the woman, being held at Sterkfontein mental hospital after she slit the throat of a pensioner at the Cresta shopping centre in Johannesburg, would be visited on Thursday.
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/ 9 February 2005
”Comrades are not entitled to participate in the country’s economy according to the M&G‘s series on the African National Congress Youth League and linked business interests published in the past year. In this way, the notion that being young, black and successful is unacceptable (more so if you have the remotest links to the youth league) is being peddled in the media,” writes Fikile Mabula.
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/ 9 February 2005
It is the moment feared and cherished by Oscar hopefuls: the envelope is opened, a name is read out and then the winner has to struggle to the stage to receive the coveted statuette. But not this year. The producers of this year’s broadcast have announced that some of the awards will be presented to winners at their seats in the audience.
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/ 9 February 2005
At least 38 people, including many children, were killed and 70 injured on Tuesday when a truck rammed into a crowd watching a carnival parade in the southern Angolan town of Lubango, the Roman Catholic radio station Ecclesia reported. Witnesses said that the truck’s brakes apparently failed.
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/ 9 February 2005
There is a bunch of young men and boys hanging around the corner of a street named Carlos Cardoso Avenue in Maputo. How many of them know who inspired the name? ”He was a journalist who was murdered,” answers one young man. Why was he murdered? No one is sure.
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/ 9 February 2005
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced an unqualified end to all Israeli military attacks on the Palestinians on Tuesday as part of a historic ceasefire that formally ends more than four years of brutal intifada, suicide bombings and the destruction of occupied towns.