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/ 10 November 2004

Surprise witness in Shaik trial

The state produced a surprise witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial under way in the Durban High Court on Wednesday. A chief police inspector, Pierre Coret, from Mauritius, has taken the stand and is testifying about the two counts of corruption against Shaik with the aid of a French translator.
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/ 10 November 2004

Northrop Grumman, Boeing reach for the stars

Defence contractor Northrop Grumman and Boeing said on Tuesday they will bid as a team to compete for Nasa’s planned manned and robotic space exploration programme. The two companies say they will start with a joint bid for the crew exploration vehicle, the first phase of ”Project Constellation,” which is designed to explore the moon and travel to Mars.

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/ 10 November 2004

JSE soars to fresh highs

A softer rand saw the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) soar to yet another fresh high on Wednesday, continuing Tuesday’s record-breaking run achieved in the wake of technical glitches that halted trading for more than two hours. On Tuesday, the all-share, industrial, banks and financial indices touched record highs.

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/ 10 November 2004

Malaria kills 20 000 a year in Angola

Malaria claims about 20 000 lives each year in Angola, more than half of them pregnant women and children under five years old, making it the main cause of death in the south-west African state. Angola’s director of programmes to fight malaria told Portuguese radio the mosquito-borne disease infects more than two million people each year.

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/ 10 November 2004

Britain may deploy troops to quell fighting in Darfur

Britain could be asked to contribute troops to a 10 000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force for Sudan under a draft resolution being discussed in the security council. The proposal for a UN force is part of a British package of incentives designed to gain Sudan’s agreement to a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in Darfur, in western Sudan.

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/ 10 November 2004

‘In your home you must show your best’

From the outside, Beijing’s Shishahai sports school is unremarkable. It would be easy to walk past it, a functional-looking building a couple of kilometres north of Tiananmen square, without even noticing. Inside the main entrance, in the gloomy hall, the first thing you see is the noticeboard, on to which the pictures of five athletes have been pinned.

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/ 10 November 2004

Gold Fields bid too close to call

The bid by world number-six gold miner Harmony for world number-four gold miner Gold Fields remains too close to call, with both groups of shareholders likely to make their final decision to vote for or against the merger on the day of the shareholder vote, investment market players said on Tuesday.

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/ 10 November 2004

Edcon headline earnings per share up 88%

Listed retailer Edgars Consolidated Stores (Edcon) has reported an 88% rise in its headline earnings per share for the six months to the end of September 2004 to 968 cents, from 516 cents a year earlier. The group doubled its interim dividend while maintaining two times earnings cover, to 494 cents per share from 247 cents in 2003.