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/ 18 October 2004
Schabir Shaik’s former personal assistant told the Durban High Court on Monday of a phone call in which Shaik asked Deputy President Jacob Zuma for help securing a slice of the arms deal. Bianca Singh said that at one point late in 1998 she was in Shaik’s office when his cellphone rang. She gathered that the caller was his brother Chippy, then head of acquisitions in the Department of Defence.
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/ 18 October 2004
World number-six gold miner Harmony is looking to create the world’s largest gold mining group with its hostile bid for world number-four gold miner Gold Fields, Harmony chief executive Bernard Swanepoel said on Monday. A combined Harmony-Gold Fields entity would have gold output of about 7,5-million troy ounces.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=123854">Gold groups poised for merger</a>
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/ 18 October 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in the red in noon trade on Monday, led down by gold miner Harmony as the market reacted to its proposed takeover of rival Gold Fields — which led the market’s upside. Excluding activity in these two stocks, volumes were extremely light.
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/ 18 October 2004
Two people were injured on Sunday when the roof of the departure terminal at Nairobi’s Wilson domestic airport caved in after an explosion of unknown origin, police said. Kenyan government spokesperson Alfred Mutua said that no-one was killed in the explosion.
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/ 18 October 2004
Violent treatment of women in Ethiopia and denial of development opportunities for them ”is a national disgrace,” World Bank chief James Wolfensohn said Sunday. Ethiopian women often are victims of female genital mutilation and bear the brunt of poverty, poor health care and lack of education. More than 70% of marriages in the country are by abduction, the National Committee on Traditional Practices of Ethiopia says.
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/ 18 October 2004
Hispanic voters are hot commodities this year, as President George Bush and Democrat John Kerry fight to win their support in what is expected to be an extremely close presidential election on November 2. There are more than seven million Hispanic voters in the United States, and their ballots could be decisive in five swing states where they make up a large chunk of the population.
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/ 18 October 2004
British pop singer Marc Almond, best known for the song Tainted Love, a global hit for his band Soft Cell in 1981, has been critically injured in a motorbike crash, police said on Monday. Almond (48) was riding as pillion passenger on the bike when it was involved in an accident with a car on Sunday afternoon in central London’s financial district.
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/ 18 October 2004
A six-hour maritime drama played out along the Wild Coast when 16 seamen were airlifted off a freighter in stormy seas in the early hours of Sunday morning, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre said. Helicopters battled 40-knot winds and three metre swells to airlift 16 crewmen off the freighter BBC China.
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/ 18 October 2004
The recent launch of the National Treasury’s Urban Renewal Tax Incentive is certain to stimulate further investment in Cape Town’s central city and immediate surrounds, according to Cape Town Partnership CEO Andrew Boraine. The incentive will first apply to Cape Town and Johannesburg.