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/ 8 November 2004
Senegal-based internet and mobile data services operator Manobi pipped six other information and communications technology (ICT) organisations from around Africa to scoop the overall organisational accolade at the African ICT Achievers
Awards 2004 on Saturday night.
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/ 8 November 2004
A veteran South African detective on Monday told how his bid to have Vito Palazzolo charged with corruption was turned down by the Western Cape’s director of prosecutions. "I thought I had a case," said Leonard Knipe, who was national head of serious and violent crime before he retired from the police.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125147">Stressed policeman unfit to testify</a>
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/ 8 November 2004
The CEO of world number-four gold miner Gold Fields, Ian Cockerill, on Monday called on shareholders of world number-six gold miner Harmony to vote against the resolutions proposed by the Harmony board. The general meeting of Harmony shareholders will be held at Harmony’s corporate office on November 12.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=125148">Solidarity works to save jobs</a>
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/ 8 November 2004
An Australian who masterminded a global internet scam that fleeced victims of Aus-million Australian dollars (about R23,3-million) was jailed for five years on Monday, court officials said. Nick Marinellis (40) pleaded guilty to 10 counts of fraud and one of perverting the course of justice.
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/ 8 November 2004
The state has applied for a witness to give evidence via a video link from the United Kingdom in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial. Professor John Lennon lives in Glasgow and is not able to come to South Africa before the court adjourns on December 10.
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/ 8 November 2004
Investigators kept open the possibility on Monday that a weekend train wreck in the south of England that killed seven people was the result of a motorist’s suicide bid. The London to Plymouth express train, travelling at 160km an hour with 300 passengers on board, slammed into a station wagon at a level crossing at Ufton Nervet, near Reading, on Saturday.
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The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was firmer in noon trade on Monday on the back of a weaker rand, despite the dollar remaining under pressure with ongoing concerns over the United States economy, particularly its huge deficits. At 12.15pm, the all-share index was up 0,19%, while the industrial index was down 0,29%.
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A group of Saudi religious scholars have signed an open letter urging Iraqis to support jihad against United States-led forces. ”Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able,” they said in a statement posted on the internet at the weekend.
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/ 8 November 2004
Zimbabwean police say they are seeking a prominent ruling Zanu-PF party businesswoman in connection with ”externalising foreign currency”. Scores of arrests in recent months have shown at least a degree of seriousness in President Robert Mugabe’s claim that he will crack down in economically and politically troubled Zimbabwe.
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The European powers secured a pledge from Iran at the weekend that Tehran would halt its uranium enrichment programme within weeks, an agreement that may avert a showdown later this month between Iran and the West. But the agreement, reached after a marathon round of negotiations in Paris between Iran and the European Union troika of Britain, France, and Germany, looks unlikely to satisfy Washington and may yet fall apart.