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/ 3 September 2004
Maria Ramos’s plans to revamp the underperforming transport parastatal look certain to run into staunch resistance from the labour movement. Jane Barrett of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, has slammed Transnet’s proposed restructuring as based on flawed premises and lacking full assessment of the social impact. The Transnet CEO’s war with labour has just begun.
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/ 3 September 2004
Record monthly sales in new vehicles, a continued recovery of the manufacturing sector and brisk growth in credit demand indicate that the South African economy is on a roll. Further evidence of manufacturing growth came on Wednesday, when the Investec Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI) remained at 59 points, its highest level this year.
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/ 3 September 2004
Three of the five drivers of the African rescue plan, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), had their work cut out this week dealing with conflict and crisis on the continent. President Thabo Mbeki took no fewer than seven of his Cabinet members to Kinshasa for the bi-national commission aimed at beefing up political and economic ties with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 3 September 2004
Professor Bruce of the Philosophy Department at the University of Wallamalloo (Queensland), most famous for his theories on the drinking habits of Aristotle, would have succinctly described conditions in Athens last weekend, as the games came to a close, as: “It’s hot enough to boil a monkey’s bum.”
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/ 3 September 2004
Listening to Metropolitan Trading Company (MTC) CEO Keith Atkins, one might think the City of Johannesburg had brought its street traders under control.
British-born Atkins has inherited daunting challenges from Rory Robertshaw, the previous head of the council-owned MTC. After piloting the city’s first "modern" market in Yeoville’s Rockey Street for R5-million, Robertshaw called it quits.
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/ 3 September 2004
When Tokyo Sexwale sits down in the foyer of the Sandton Crowne Plaza hotel in Johannesburg to talk football, he lifts his right foot towards his chest and gesticulates while saying, "<i>Isoccer yimi</i> — I am soccer, <i>ngikhule ngiteka itennis</i> — I used to play with the tennis ball." Black business is taking corporate responsibility on to the soccer field.
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/ 3 September 2004
The number of Aids cases in Japan is slowly increasing, and the number of HIV-positive people in the country is estimated to be far higher than the number reported. In 2003 the government recorded 336 new Aids cases but only 640 new HIV cases, a number that was “far lower than expected.” Since Japan began tracking HIV/Aids cases in 1985, the government has recorded 2 892 Aids cases and 5 780 HIV cases.
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/ 3 September 2004
A curfew was imposed on Kathmandu this week, with orders to shoot people on sight, after thousands of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and fought pitched battles with police to protest against the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by insurgents in Iraq. The rioters attacked the capital’s main mosque and set fire to offices of Arab airlines, among other acts of vandalism.
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/ 3 September 2004
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Justice James Kalaile has quit his post, just three months after the country’s parliamentary and presidential polls. The main opposition Malawi Congress Party and the Mgwirizano coalition (a grouping of five parties) are challenging the presidential results in the high court.
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/ 3 September 2004
The man who once dominated the US Open has a fresh outlet for what was one of the most fiercely competitive natures in tennis — his golfing daughters. This is Ivan Lendl in the second phase of his life. And, in the role of father and coach, don’t bet against it being any less successful than the first.