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/ 1 November 2004
Staff at ThisDay newspaper will meet on Tuesday for more information on the future of the broadsheet, which suspended publication last week. The newspaper launched a year ago but failed to hit the streets last week after printers demanded that a contract be signed and promised surety be provided.
Fuel price up by 500%
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/ 1 November 2004
American voters may have shrugged off a surprise appearance by Osama bin Laden, but one day ahead of the United States presidential election, daily newspapers conveyed a general pessimism about the election, no matter who wins.
With final opinion polls searching for any late shift in voter sentiment, neither candidate was seen as breaking out of a suffocating deadlock ahead of Tuesday’s vote.
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/ 1 November 2004
Ten people were arrested on the West Rand and in the North West province on Monday, for allegedly defrauding the Mine Pension Fund of more than R4,5-million, police said. A spokesperson for the Johannesburg commercial crimes unit said several plots and houses of former mine employees were raided on Monday morning.
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/ 1 November 2004
A former elite police officer broke down on Monday in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, where he had been summoned to answer questions about alleged Mafia kingpin Roberto Palazzolo. Abraham Smith was called on the first day of a hearing in which questions drawn up by Italian prosecutors are being put to a series of witnesses.
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/ 1 November 2004
Conflicting reports from the disputed region of Sool, northern Somalia, indicate that at least 100 people were killed on Friday when forces from the self-declared republic of Somaliland clashed with those of the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland. Both sides are accusing the other of initiating the hostilities.
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/ 1 November 2004
It’s official — Swiss cheese is the best in the world. Cheeses from Alpine Switzerland won 37 of 60 medals available at the third annual Mountain Cheese Olympics, including 13 gold medals, the organisers said. More than 400 mountain cheeses from around the world competed in the four-day event.
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/ 1 November 2004
Four journalists will go on trial in Zimbabwe in January on charges of defaming President Robert Mugabe. A newspaper report that said he had used a plane from the national carrier for his holidays. Editors Iden Wetherell and Vincent Kahiya, and reporters Dumisani Muleya and Itai Dzamara from the privately owned Zimbabwe Independent are to return to court on January 10 for the start of the trial.
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/ 1 November 2004
South Africa’s long-awaited Convergence Bill will be passed next year, Director General of Communications Lyndall Shope-Mafole said on Monday. Convergence means carrying all types of communication on one digital network — comprising voice, data, internet and other information and communications technology platforms.
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World oil prices rose on Monday after union leaders announced plans for an indefinite general strike in Nigeria, Africa’s largest exporter of crude, to begin later this month, traders said. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, rose 49 cents to ,25 a barrel in electronic trading.
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I do have to admit that I feel a bit like Rip van Winkle, whoever he might have been. I have been out on the road for a month, which seems like a short space of time when you think about if from one perspective, but is really a lifetime when you look at it from another point of view. The world passes beneath your feet in real time while you’re out there. Meanwhile, back home, seismic changes are rumbling like there’s no tomorrow.