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/ 1 September 2004
The Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) has expressed an interest in participating in the privatisation of India’s two largest airports and the board is studying the details of the project, Acsa MD Monhla Hlahla said on Wednesday. Hlahla said the project is still in its early stages.
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/ 1 September 2004
The Independent Democrats welcomed 18 municipal councillors — mainly from the New National Party — to its ranks on Wednesday, the first day of the two-week period for councillors to change parties without losing their seats. Former NNP Cape Town councillor David Sassman said the NNP ”sold out to the highest bidder”.
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/ 1 September 2004
After a volatile start, the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) settled in positive territory by noon on Wednesday, buoyed by strength on European markets. Retailers and banks were features on the upside, with many hitting new highs. By 11.59am, the all-share index was up 0,37%. Industrials and financials firmed 0,53% and 0,58% respectively.
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/ 1 September 2004
Japan’s death toll from Typhoon Chaba rose to 13 on Wednesday as another powerful Pacific storm threatened to hit its southern island of Okinawa. The Philippines were on Wednesday still mopping up from torrential rains that killed 43 people and Richmond, the capital of the US state of Virginia, was flooded by tropical storm Gaston.
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/ 1 September 2004
A Bengal tiger on the loose in the thick brush surrounding an American army base is winning a game of hide and seek. A team of about 40 soldiers and sheriff’s deputies searched the woods on Fort Polk on Tuesday, but saw no sign of the tiger. It was unclear where the animal came from, but it is likely a pet that escaped or was set free.
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/ 1 September 2004
Large swathes of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, and adjoining towns have gone without water for weeks, forcing residents to store water in often unhygienic drums borrowed from elsewhere in the city. Worst affected are the four-million-strong city’s middle-class eastern suburbs.
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/ 1 September 2004
Ten local councillors from various parties crossed over to the Freedom Front Plus within hours of the floor-crossing window period coming into effect, party leader Pieter Mulder said on Wednesday. Included in the crossings was former chairperson of the New National Party caucus Wrentia Landman.
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/ 1 September 2004
Government cutbacks in New York are hitting a continental soldier below the belt. The statue of Copper John, a continental soldier who sits atop the state’s Auburn Correctional Facility, was removed earlier this summer for renovation. The beloved figure is set to return to his perch this fall, albeit a lesser man.
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/ 1 September 2004
Nine people were still not accounted for by Wednesday afternoon after a gas explosion that claimed six lives at Sasol’s Secunda plant, police said. A spokesperson for the petrochemical company, Johann van Rheede, told reporters on the scene that more than 100 people were injured in the blast in Sasol’s ethylene plant.
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/ 1 September 2004
A Malaysian woman seeking to reclaim a world record by living with more than 6 000 scorpions in a glass cage for 36 days said on Wednesday she had been stung by the nation’s indifference. ”All my activities are constrained and there’s a lot of pressure. But people don’t understand how I feel. They think I am just sitting in here doing nothing,” Nur Malena Hassan said.