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/ 27 October 2004
Shareholders of the ailing <i>ThisDay</I> newspaper are in last-ditch negotiations with potential investors to rescue the daily from closure. There are about 15 possible investors, <i>ThisDay</i> chairperson Nduka Obaigbena told journalists in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 27 October 2004
Veteran British broadcaster John Peel, who championed pretty much every new cutting edge pop and rock act over the past 35 years on his radio shows, has died after a heart attack, the British Broadcasting Corporation announced on Tuesday. Peel (65) who worked for the BBC’s popular music station Radio One ever since it started in 1967, suffered a heart attack on Tuesday night while on holiday with his wife in Peru.
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/ 27 October 2004
It has been a mystery for more than a century — is a skull in an Austrian basement really that of arguably the greatest composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Over the weekend a group of archaeologists began to answer the question by digging up the remains of Mozart’s close relatives.
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/ 27 October 2004
Israel’s Parliament on Tuesday night voted for the first time in 37 years of occupation to remove Jewish settlements from the Palestinian territories in a historic move that Ariel Sharon said paved the way to the end of the conflict. Sharon won, with 67 of the 120 MPs voting for the plan and 45 against. The remainder abstained.
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/ 27 October 2004
A delegation from the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions were on their way from Musina to Polokwane in a minibus taxi on Wednesday morning, after being hustled out of Zimbabwe ”through the back door”. Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said a vehicle had been arranged to take the 13 delegates to Johannesburg from Polokwane.
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/ 27 October 2004
So smart cars are funky little toys that look very cute but cost a lot of money and don’t have enough power to get out of their own way, right? Wrong! The smart forfour is a real car that can keep up with the real world. Pity about the kitsch e.e.cummings lower-case letters in the name, though, writes Gavin Foster.
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/ 27 October 2004
There are signs that it’s becoming increasingly difficult for the regulator to plug the holes in radio’s public service and community licensing models. Can the SABC justifiably keep its monopoly? Can Radio Today be allowed to maintain its relationship with MoneyWeb? Kevin Bloom speaks to Michael Markovitz, advisor to the Icasa chairperson.
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/ 27 October 2004
Our Red October campaign is grounded in a long history of the South African Communist Party’s involvement in land and agrarian struggles since the 1920s. Our national liberation shall remain incomplete until the land question is fully addressed in favour of the overwhelming majority of our people, principally the workers, the poor and the landless rural masses, writes the South African Communist Party’s Blade Nzimande.
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/ 27 October 2004
In the soap opera of the new transparent medicine pricing system, the latest unforeseen twist is the Pharmacy Council’s list of extra items for which pharmacists can charge over and above a drug’s single exit price, plus dispensing fee. Pharmacists have made it clear they intend to maintain their earnings by any means possible, ensuring that they now appear as the baddies in the medicine-pricing saga.
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/ 27 October 2004
The African National Congress Youth League leadership and former Springbok coach Andre Markgraaff hope to find ”common ground” when they hold talks on transformation in rugby on Thursday. Markgraaff has made himself available for the position of SA Rugby deputy president.