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/ 22 October 2004
South Africa’s Old Mutual Asset Managers (Omam) is still weighing its options regarding the bid by Harmony Gold for Gold Fields, Omam resources fund manager Patrice Rassou said on Friday. A key issue for Omam is that the fund manager feels that not all the information has been forthcoming from Gold Fields and Harmony.
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/ 22 October 2004
Foreign business chambers falling under the Bilateral Chamber Consultative Committee — an umbrella body representing 21 private-sector business groupings — have a high level of confidence in the South African economy. This was the message delivered on Friday to the National Assembly trade and industry committee.
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/ 22 October 2004
Two people were killed and five injured when a commercial building under construction in a south-eastern suburb of Kampala collapsed, crushing the building-site workers, police officials said on Friday. ”The building went down as the workers were pouring the concrete mix on the third floor,” the Kampala chief fire officer said.
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/ 22 October 2004
Like the career of its subject, London’s latest musical began in a blaze of publicity, set tongues wagging and ended, prematurely, in disgrace. Oscar Wilde: The Musical opened on Tuesday at the 500-seat Shaw Theatre. It closed the next day after receiving excoriating reviews and selling just five tickets for its second performance.
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/ 22 October 2004
After three days locked in deliberation, the judges still couldn’t decide between Tanya Poole and Phillip Rikhotso, so Brett Kebble was called in to exercise the judgement of Solomon. The Kebble awards have the power to change lives and are born out of boardroom battles, writes Chris Roper.
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/ 22 October 2004
The judges couldn’t bring themselves to discuss it, the tabloids couldn’t see beyond it. But there’s more going on in Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel than gay sex, he tells Stephen Moss.
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/ 22 October 2004
Rescue workers recovered more bodies on Friday from a coal shaft where at least 66 miners died and 82 were missing with little hope of survival after a gas explosion in central China’s Henan province on Wednesday. Officials said 29 miners were trapped by floods on Wednesday at another coal mine in neighbouring Hebei province.
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/ 22 October 2004
Amsterdam’s luxurious Amstel hotel — a favorite with visiting rock stars and dignitaries — was evacuated after a dangerous bacteria was detected in the water, the hotel said Friday. A routine health inspection on Thursday uncovered the bacteria that causes legionnaires’ disease, the hotel said in a statement.
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/ 22 October 2004
Four members of the banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) have been sentenced to death for mass murder committed in Ethiopia in 1992, reports said on Friday. The killings were committed weeks after the OLF left the then Ethiopian transitional government in July 1992 over policy differences.
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/ 22 October 2004
Co-curator and editor Sophie Perryer reports on an exhibition that celebrates the freedom of artists to pursue personal and individual concerns in the post-apartheid era.