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/ 10 December 1997
LOCAL weather experts have spoken out against reports on Tuesday quoting a fertiliser company boss who claimed that the El Niño phenomenon is on the wane. Neville Cross of Omnia Holdings said the effect of the El Niño phenomenon has been exaggerated and is already weakening. He said it disappeared entirely for about eight days […]
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/ 10 December 1997
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH African golfing star and defending champion Ernie Els was two strokes behind leaders Nick Faldo and Jesper Parnevik at 69 after the first round of the $350 000 Johnnie Walker Super Tour in Cimanggis, Jakarta in Indonesia on Wednesday. Faldo and Parnevik shot 5-under-par 67s to share the first-round lead. “I did […]
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/ 10 December 1997
TUESDAY, 11.30PM: INTERNATIONAL car rental company Hertz on Tuesday officially returned to the South African market after a 10-year absence. Launching Hertz Car Rentals at the Johannesburg International Airport, Hertz International president Antoine Cau said the South African operations are poised to become the group’s third largest franchise — behind Greece and Ireland — by […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 1.00PM: DESPITE the crime problems in South Africa, a recent survey of the world’s cities found Cape Town and Johannesburg to be the best African cities in which to live, and Brazzaville, Congo, the worst city in the world. The Corporate Resources Group conducted a survey of major world cities, looking at factors like […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 5.40PM: NO-ONE can be held criminally liable for the so-called “Shell House killings”, concluded Judge Bob Nugent on the final day of a six-month long inquest (see below). Nugent said that while no individual member of the police, the African National Congress or the Inkatha Freedom Party — or the three organisations as a […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 10.00AM: A SOUTH African delegation will meet European Union representatives at EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday in a bid to head off threats to local ostrich meat exports to the European market. The delegation, led by Land and Agriculture Minister Derek Hanekom and including several government veterinarians, will try to persuade veterinary authorities […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 5.00PM: CENTRAL government spending in the year to March 1996 was up 13,5% over the previous year, according to figures released by Central Statistical Services on Tuesday. Expenditure from the State Revenue Account amounted to R167 269,4-million in the 1995/96 financial year, ending March 31, 1996. This is 13,5% higher than the R147 329,2-million […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 11.30AM: RESIDENTS of flood-ravaged northern areas of Kenya resorted to newspaper advertisements on Monday to back up their appeals to the government for emergency help. The advertisements called for medicines and food emergency aid: “People are starving and there is a disaster in the making. The lives of both human beings and livestock are […]
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/ 9 December 1997
TUESDAY, 10.00AM: A TRADE and industry department study has shown the local milling and baking induxtry to be uncompetitive by international standards. The industry study, conducted by a government committee and representatives of the private sector concluded that millers should not bank indefinitely on the 50% imported flour tariff. The study also found that volume-driven […]
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/ 9 December 1997
WEDNESDAY, 7.00AM: HOURS after facing Harare’s biggest-ever demonstrations, the Zimbabwe government climbed down on a special levy to raise money for war veterans’ pensions. But other aspects of the tax package remain in place. TUESDAY, 6.00PM: A MASSIVE nationwide strike in Zimbabwe was marred by violence on Tuesday as heavily armed riot police fired tear […]