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/ 7 February 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will attend a meeting of the group of seven (G7) ministers of finance and central bank governors, in Essen, Germany, the National Treasury said on Wednesday. Manuel was invited by the G7, together with finance ministers from Brazil, India, Russia, China and Mexico, to attend the meeting to be held on Friday.
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/ 7 February 2007
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday sacked Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa and promoted several deputies in a Cabinet reshuffle announced through state radio. Mugabe picked former minister of indigenisation Samuel Mumbengegwi as Murerwa’s replacement.
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/ 7 February 2007
The local organising committee has cleared its first hurdle in the race to have amenities in place for the Soccer World Cup by balancing a stadium budget R3,4-billion over the original R8,7-billion. This was done by trimming costs and obtaining additional finance from the municipalities where games would be played.
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/ 6 February 2007
The head of the World Trade Organisation said on Tuesday he sensed fresh determination to conclude the Doha round of talks, but added he would wait for ”substance” before calling ministers together. The WTO negotiations were halted in July after major powers failed to break a long-running deadlock.
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/ 6 February 2007
France will be looking for more than just a high-profile exhibition match during Wednesday night’s international friendly against Argentina, striker Djibril Cisse warned. Cisse said that all eyes would be firmly focused on next month’s Euro 2008 qualifier against Lithuania rather than the South Americans.
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/ 6 February 2007
The Democratic Alliance and the Independent Democrats have ousted the African National Congress (ANC) from control of the Bergrivier municipality in the Western Cape. The two parties on Monday afternoon won a vote of no confidence in the ANC mayor, deputy mayor and speaker.
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/ 5 February 2007
Violence raked Baghdad on Monday as an Iraqi general took charge of the security operation in the capital and Iraqi police and soldiers manned new roadblocks — initial steps indicating the start of the long-anticipated joint operation with American forces to curb sectarian bloodshed. But bombers, gunmen and mortar teams appeared undaunted.
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/ 5 February 2007
When President Thabo Mbeki attacked environmental processes for being too slow last year, many environmentalists were outraged. After a Cabinet lekgotla, Mbeki said environmental legislation was causing development delays and had contributed to “a quite considerable slowing down of economic activity”.
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/ 1 February 2007
An Air France flight from Paris to Rome was diverted to the eastern French city of Lyon on Thursday after an anonymous phone call warned of a bomb, a spokesperson for the civil aviation authorities said. The spokesperson said the plane landed safely and all the passengers had disembarked.
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/ 31 January 2007
Black economic empowerment (BEE) legislation could be amended to compel companies to adhere to codes of good practice, Parliament’s trade and industry portfolio committee heard on Wednesday. ”The Act does not empower us to take action against a company that refuses to recognise the codes,” Trade and Industry Department chief director Polo Hadebe said.