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President Thabo Mbeki and a number of people instrumental in the South African peace process met delegates from the Israeli Likud party in Pretoria on Tuesday. ”It’s not a governmental delegation but a South African delegation,” Mbeki told Israeli Minister of Industry and Trade Michael Ratzon.
Israeli attack on Hamas activists kills 14
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/ 7 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in the red just before noon on Tuesday, having been knocked down by heavyweight resources and banking counters. Petrochemicals group Sasol, which was hit by the double whammy of disappointing results and a strike at its coal operations, was the most active stock.
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There are still at least seven prisoners facing the death penalty in the Eastern Cape, although the death penalty was finally written out of the law six years ago. Countrywide, there are thought to be dozens of prisoners who were sentenced to death before the abolition of the death penalty in 1995, who are still waiting for their sentences to be commuted.
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/ 7 September 2004
Cape Town and Nelspruit do not have much in common, one would think, but internet junkies can rest assured that both cities offer them excellent means to access the net. Nelspruit’s Alpha Internet Café and Cape Town’s Café Erte have been shortlisted among the world’s best places to surf the internet.
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/ 7 September 2004
An Israeli attack on Hamas activists training near Gaza City killed at least 14 people early on Tuesday. The raid came a week after Hamas murdered 16 Israelis in twin suicide bombings on buses in Be’er Sheva. Israel’s leaders vowed bloody revenge on the Islamist group. The dead in Tuesday’s attack were all believed to be Hamas supporters.
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Oil and chemicals group Sasol expects near-dated Brent crude oil to soften from its current level of about $40 a barrel, and during the course of the coming year the group expects Brent to fall to the low $30s a barrel, Sasol chief executive Pieter Cox said on Tuesday. London’s Brent crude closed on Monday at $40,62 a barrel.
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More than 1 000 Solidarity members who work for Sasol’s coal-mining operations embarked on a protected strike in Secunda on Tuesday, Solidarity said in a statement. Solidarity members are "tired" of Sasol’s management style, especially the poor salary increases the group gives and unsafe working conditions.
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”An African icon”, a ”true son of Africa” and a man who ”helped reaffirm the dignity of all South Africans” were among the tributes pouring in for anti-apartheid cleric Beyers Naude who died on Tuesday morning. Naude died at 89 with his wife Ilse and his four children at his bedside at his retirement home in Johannesburg.
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Police in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali said on Tuesday they had arrested two South African nationals for drug trafficking in an operation described as the biggest heroin bust in two years. Police found 2,3kg of the drug when they raided the hotel room where the two South Africans were staying last Tuesday, said Adjunct Commissioner Lennon, an officer in the Balinese capital of Denpasar.
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Papa Wemba, the world music star known as the King of Congolese rumba rock, will be tried in France in October for allegedly smuggling at least 150 people into the country by claiming they were members of his band, his French lawyer said on Monday.