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/ 12 October 2004
Operations at Impala Platinum (Implats) will return to normal at 9pm on Tuesday after the company and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) agreed to an 8% pay increase, backdated to July 1. As part of the settlement, the NUM has agreed to support initiatives to improve productivity through technological advances.
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/ 12 October 2004
Eight schoolchildren died and 60 were seriously injured in a bus accident in Tabankulu in the Eastern Cape on Monday, the provincial transport department said. Spokesperson Tshepo Machaea said the children from the Mtutukazi Junior Secondary School were on a tour to East London when the driver lost control while negotiating a curve, causing the bus to overturn.
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/ 12 October 2004
It was late afternoon as Major Joel Hagy made a delivery to a private health clinic less than five minutes drive from his base on the outskirts of Sadr City, Baghdad’s violent eastern Shia slum. Even though the area around the clinic was thought to be quiet, it required three armoured Humvees and a dozen soldiers, three with machine guns, to bring just four cardboard boxes of medicine.
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/ 12 October 2004
Myanmar’s military junta, one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, must be pleased with its weekend’s work at the 39-nation Asia-Europe (Asem) meeting in Hanoi. Asem expressed a vague hope that the regime’s spurious ”national reconciliation process” would succeed and ”looked forward to the early lifting of restrictions on political parties”.
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/ 12 October 2004
It has won just about every award in television, and an audience of millions around the world. But The Sopranos, the gritty chronicle of modern-day mobsters in New Jersey, continues to raise hackles among Italians and those of Italian descent.
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/ 12 October 2004
The Israeli army has begun investigating the death of a 13-year-old Palestinian girl said to have been shot dead by soldiers then riddled with bullets by their commander. On television and in newspapers soldiers claimed that the officer shot her in the head and emptied a magazine of bullets into her body.
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/ 12 October 2004
One of the United States’s biggest television companies has announced plans to broadcast a film days before the presidential election that portrays the Democratic candidate John Kerry as betraying his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. The conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group will reportedly present the film as news on the 62 local channels it owns nationwide.
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/ 12 October 2004
After rallying to record highs for the previous three consecutive trading sessions, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) drifted weaker on Monday as players took profits. Losses were most pronounced at the top end of the market and the mid- and small-cap indices ended in the black.
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/ 12 October 2004
Andile Ngcaba, former Department of Communications Director-General and new Dimension Data chairperson designate has declined his nomination for the African ICT Achievers Awards. Ngcaba was nominated a number of times for the top black individual of the year award and was short-listed as one of the finalists.
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/ 12 October 2004
<b>Community-based Natural Resource Management Expert at German Technical Cooperation</b>
Jabu believes in South Africa and the communities around her. She works to ensure that the country’s wealth of natural resources will be protected for the benefit of future generations. This can only be achieved by raising the awareness of communities about their local resources, she says.