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/ 28 September 2004
Botswana’s appeal court on Tuesday upheld a ruling declaring a two-week strike by diamond miners illegal, leaving about 400 workers who were sacked during the industrial action with no prospect of being re-hired. ”We won the case and the union lost it with costs,” said Parks Tafa, a lawyer for the Debswana Diamond Company, the world’s leading producer by value of the precious stone.
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/ 28 September 2004
Food retailer Pick ‘n Pay has donated over 800 computer workstations to the Shuttleworth Foundation’s tuXlab programme to assist them in their drive to increase the usage of open source software in South African schools. This single donation will enable the establishment of tuXlabs in up to 40 schools.
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/ 28 September 2004
The draft black empowerment document for agriculture, AgriBEE, has been published for public comment, the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday. The document, which elicited strong reaction from the agricultural industry, was first launched in July.
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/ 28 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was racing ahead in noon trade on Tuesday, fuelled by rampant resources stocks. The rest of the market was flat. By 12h00, the all share index was up 1,07%. Resources soared 2,7%, with the gold and platinum mining indices picking up 0,49% and 0,22% respectively.
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/ 28 September 2004
The Eastern Cape government has spent R104-million on treating botched traditional circumcisions since 2001, according to provincial health minister Bevan Goqwana. He released the figure on Monday at a three-day conference in East London on circumcision.
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/ 28 September 2004
President Thabo Mbeki has strongly criticised those intent on continuing political assassinations reminiscent of the apartheid regime, vowing that perpetrators will be brought to book. Writing in his weekly newsletter on Monday, he referred to last week’s murder of the former speaker of the Estcourt Municipal Council, Stanley Chetty, who had switched to the ANC during the recent floor-crossing period.
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/ 28 September 2004
Two former military policemen and five other members of the so-called ”blue light gang” were convicted on numerous charges resulting from a series of robberies and murders in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. A security guard and a policeman were killed, five cars hijacked, a woman abducted, numerous firearms robbed and more than R300 000 taken in a series of hijackings and robberies between September 2000 and August 2001.
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/ 28 September 2004
A music publishing house in the United States has offered to pay all future royalties on the song Wimoweh to the family of its South African author, lawyers for the late composer Solomon Linda said on Monday. New York-based TRO/Folkways has also offered to contribute to the erection of a memorial structure for Linda, law firm Spoor & Fischer said in a statement.
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/ 28 September 2004
Spanish construction group ACS-Dragados is vying with a Franco-Canadian-led consortium for the right to build a high-speed rail link in South Africa ready for the 2010 World Cup finals, the Spanish financial daily La Gaceta reported on Monday. The 1,2-billion dollar (R7,6-billion) project would link Pretoria with Johannesburg and the Johannesburg International airport, about 80km further south.
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/ 28 September 2004
A Nigerian passenger on a local flight from the southern town of Enugu to Lagos was stung by a scorpion that had found its way into his trousers, officials said on Monday. The victim — Kingsley Adimike — was rushed to a clinic for treatment at the Lagos airport.