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/ 4 November 2004
A document outlining a loan agreement between Deputy President Jacob Zuma and fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik was presented to the Durban High Court on Thursday. The document apparently makes provision for a R2-million revolving loan from Shaik to Zuma over five years.
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/ 4 November 2004
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told a news conference in Johannesburg on Thursday he is eager to go to China — where he last visited 50 years ago — and stressed that Beijing has failed to understand that he has dropped demands for independence. The leader sidestepped questions on the United States elections.
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/ 4 November 2004
Yasser Arafat’s condition has suddenly worsened and he is in intensive care undergoing a new round of tests, Palestinian officials in France said on Thursday. Israeli media, citing Israeli intelligence officials, said the Palestinian leader had suffered organ failure and was going in and out of consciousness as his condition seriously deteriorated.
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/ 4 November 2004
South African banking group FirstRand announced on Thursday that black economic empowerment (BEE) groupings will acquire 10% of the group. A binding memorandum of understanding has been entered into with BEE partners and discussions with a number of third-party funders are at an advanced stage, it said.
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/ 4 November 2004
Matric results in mathematics, so poor they are a ”crisis of performance”, remain as a legacy of apartheid, a forthcoming publication has found. Focusing on maths, because of the range of career choices it provides, Professor Servaas van der Berg looked at an education system that by world and African standards is a poor performer.
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/ 4 November 2004
Top Japanese automaker Toyota Motor said on Thursday it will recall 651 366 vehicles, mostly in overseas markets, to replace defective tail-lamp covers whose red colour might fade in direct sun. The recall covers 10 models manufactured between November 1989 and April 2000, the company said.
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/ 4 November 2004
A speeding truck plunged into a river when its lights failed suddenly at night, killing 26 people and wounding 37 others in western Tanzania, an official said on Thursday. The truck was carrying at least 70 people, mainly dealers of second-hand clothing.
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/ 4 November 2004
The SA Chamber of Business’s Business Confidence Index for October dropped from September’s high of 130,9 to 126,5, Sacob said on Thursday. ”The October level of 126,5 is still at an exceptionally high level and not less than 10 points above the 116,5 of October 2003,” Sacob said in a statement.
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/ 4 November 2004
World number-six gold miner Harmony on Thursday announced details of its proposed cost-saving measures, which it said will deliver at least R1-billion a year in improved pre-tax operating profit at Gold Fields’ South African operations. Harmony will do this through applying the "Harmony way".
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/ 4 November 2004
Government warplanes bombed the largest city in Côte d’Ivoire’s rebel-held north on Thursday in what a government military commander said was the launch of a new offensive to reunite the war-divided nation. The raid threatened to restart Côte d’Ivoire’s civil war, ended by a 2003 peace deal after nine months of fighting.