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/ 15 October 2004
Muslims in the Arab world began marking Ramadan on Friday, a holy month of giving and prayer, clouded by relentless violence across Iraq and the deadliest Israeli raid against the Gaza Strip. Libya and Nigeria took the lead by kicking off the holiest month in the Muslim calendar on Thursday.
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/ 15 October 2004
A wealthy South African, accused of illegally exporting more than R200-million-worth of precious metals, was arrested at Johannesburg International airport on Friday. The man, now living in Newmarket, United Kingdom, had arrived in South Africa for a holiday with his family when he was arrested at the airport.
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/ 15 October 2004
The man suspected of kidnapping and killing Johannesburg student Leigh Matthews will appear in the Wynberg Regional Court on October 22 for a formal bail hearing. The date was set by a Randburg magistrate on Friday. The bail application by Donovan Moodley (24) is expected to be opposed by the state.
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/ 15 October 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange was lower on Friday due to the stronger rand and lower global equities, traders said. By 12.15am, the all share and all share industrial indices were 0,51% and 0,18% softer respectively. Resources were down 1,04%, the platinum mining index slumped 0,09% and the gold mining index eased 0,76%. The financial index fell 0,14% and banks index dropped 0,16%.
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/ 15 October 2004
José Manuel Barroso, the new European commission president, was warned on Thursday that MEPs would vote out his entire commission unless he backed down over his choice of Rocco Buttiglione as the EU’s new civil liberties chief. Martin Schulz, the leader of the European parliament’s Socialist group, said he could muster a majority among the 732 MEPs for the move, which would provoke a constitutional crisis in the EU.
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/ 15 October 2004
The European Union’s decision this week to extend the ban on ostrich imports from South Africa because of an avian influenza scare in the country has caught the local ostrich sector by surprise, industry representatives say. "We were hoping to resume export by November 1," said Anton Kruger, general manager of the South African Ostrich Business Chamber.
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/ 15 October 2004
Zimbabwean police on Friday fanned out across Harare and set up road blocks before the High Court was to hand down a ruling in a high-profile treason trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who could face the gallows. The complex housing the High Court, which is directly opposite top government buildings, was ringed by scores of paramilitary and riot police armed with automatic weapons and batons.
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/ 15 October 2004
Stephen Saad — MD of South African pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare Holdings — has been named as the South African winner of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Awards for 2004/05, Ernst & Young announced on Friday. Saad will represent South Africa at the global awards ceremony, to be held in Monte Carlo in May next year.
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/ 15 October 2004
The fact that investors channelled a net record R15-billion into unit trusts into the third quarter is an indication of improved sentiment towards the market as a result of recent strong gains from the lows of March last year, according to Investec Asset Management director Jeremy Gardiner.
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/ 15 October 2004
The R100 000 bail granted to parliamentary travel scam suspect Soraya Beukes was suspended on Thursday, after allegations that she had given false information to enable her to go to Mozambique. Scorpions prosecutor Ben Avenant alleged in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court that her purpose was to abscond. Beukes is the owner of Business and Executive Travel.