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”An awful lot” needs to be done before mid-December when financial closure is expected to be reached between stakeholders of the Gautrain project, local construction partner Murray & Roberts said on Tuesday. The executive director of the company, Arnold Miller, said there was nonetheless no reason to suppose that financial closure could not be reached.
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/ 8 November 2005
A member of the Gauteng legislature, the Freedom Front Plus’s Jaco Mulder, on Tuesday made a second attempt to buy "blacks-only" Eyethu shares from Nedbank. In a statement, Mulder — who is his party’s provincial leader — said he officially handed in his application to his Nedbank branch in Krugersdorp for his Eyethu shares.
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/ 8 November 2005
A year ago, South Africa couldn’t beat a credible opponent in one-day cricket. Now they head to India on Friday for a five-match series as the world’s second-ranked team. It’s a transformation achieved with essentially the same playing personnel, although there have been two changes of coach.
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South Africans should use water sparingly due to the drought in many parts of the country, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday. Indications from the South African Weather Service are that prospects for above-normal rainfall this season are not good.
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/ 8 November 2005
South Africa on Monday denied that it proposed taking part in any uranium-enrichment activities in Iran, saying it had been ”actively involved in seeking a diplomatic solution regarding the peaceful uses of nuclear energy by Iran”. ”The report … is erroneous and without any foundation,” the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
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Sometimes his presence has the soothing effect of a silver lining, but more often than not these days Benni McCarthy’s presence in the Bafana Bafana squad is shrouded by a dark cloud of uncertainty. McCarthy is ”under observation” for a lingering ankle injury and a doubtful starter for the Nelson Mandela Cup game on Saturday.
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South African Paralympic star Ernst van Dyk continues to enjoy one of his most successful years to date, having just won the New York Marathon and Oita Marathon in Japan in the space of two weeks. Van Dyk’s win in New York came in a course record time of 1:31,11.
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/ 8 November 2005
The Bombela Consortium is under no legal obligation to complete the Gautrain before the 2010 Soccer World Cup starts, Business Day reported on Tuesday. It quoted local construction partner Murray and Roberts as saying there is no agreement with the government stipulating the train be ready in time for the World Cup.
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/ 8 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai was chased away by party youths at a rally in Lupane on Monday, that country’s Herald Online reports. ”Tsvangirai was sent scurrying when a group of youths came rushing to his car, threatening to beat him up,” said an MDC member.
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/ 8 November 2005
A Durban man says he was lucky to be able to tell the tale of a weekend pirate attack on his cruise ship off Somalia’s coast, the Mercury website reported on Tuesday. Charles Forsdick described how some passengers had to throw themselves to the floor to escape bullets.
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/ 8 November 2005
The decision by the deputy director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Lizo Njenje, to resign in exchange for the withdrawal of his court action against Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils — to fight his suspension — was sinister, the Democratic Alliance’s Paul Swart said on Monday.
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/ 8 November 2005
A woman was stung to death by a swarm of bees that attacked her when her car hit an electric substation in Senderwood on Monday afternoon, Johannesburg metro police said. A massive beehive covering the roof of the substation was disturbed when Mariana Carmichael’s car veered off the road and hit the building.
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A prison official is in a critical condition after being shot in a failed escape bid from Zonderwater prison on Sunday. Five prisoners took five officials hostage at the prison’s hospital wing on Sunday. The men were serving a variety of lengthy sentences for murder, armed robbery and possession of arms and ammunition.
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About 60 people were left homeless on Monday after heavy rains flooded their homes in Dunken village in East London, Eastern Cape disaster-management officials said. ”What made it worse was that there was a blocked pipe near the homes,” said disaster management’s Owen Becker.
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The Scorpions will have to return documents taken from former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s Johannesburg home in August, the Witness website reported on Tuesday. It said this was clear from a sworn statement by Scorpions chief advocate Leonard McCarthy that was handed in at the Durban High Court.
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/ 7 November 2005
The management of the University of Pretoria has ordered the reconstitution of the recently elected student representative council (SRC) for not having enough black members. ”The representation does not comply with the requirements of the SRC constitution,” the university said on Monday.
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/ 7 November 2005
Soccer coaches don’t make great teams, it has been reasoned in some quarters. They destroy them. Jimmy Williams, who died on Friday at the age of 79 after several years of deteriorating health, was dedicated to not destroying anything while coaching Highlands Park in the 1960s.
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/ 7 November 2005
An Eastern Cape-based research body has called on Parliament to occupy the five seats currently allocated to the government in South Africa’s African peer-review mechanism (APRM) governing council. The APRM governing council for South Africa is made up of 15 members — 10 from civil society and five from the executive arm of the government.
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/ 7 November 2005
South Africa’s emphatic 4-0 victory over New Zealand in the recent Standard Bank series was mission accomplished for new coach Mickey Arthur, but the national cricket team barely have time to breathe before moving on to the next challenge — a five-match limited-overs series in India.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade has vowed to make the area of Abaqulusi ungovernable, following the dissolution of the municipality last week. KwaZulu-Natal local government minister Mike Mabuyakhulu announced last week that the IFP-led municipality was in a chaotic state and that he had decided to fire its management.
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/ 7 November 2005
Six South Africans aboard a luxury liner attacked by pirates off the coast of Somali on Saturday are safe in London, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Monday. ”They were flown from the Seychelles to London,” Mamoepa said.
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/ 7 November 2005
Absa Bank is top of the pops in customer satisfaction, but the big four banks have all seen their ratings slide, according to market researchers Synovate. ”Absa has beaten First National Bank and Standard Bank for the first time,” Synovate spokesperson Catherine Barnhoorn said in Johannesburg on Monday.
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/ 7 November 2005
Leisure, casino and hospitality group Sun International, which announced a R604-million broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) deal on Monday, is no stranger to BEE. In fact, the group was doing it long before it become either fashionable or practically obligatory.
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/ 7 November 2005
A tip-off that led to the discovery of a stolen vehicle and four automatic rifles with 400 rounds of ammunition has prevented a major robbery at an upmarket Johannesburg shopping mall. Superintendent Chris Wilken said the police’s North West unit received a tip-off around 2pm on Sunday about a planned robbery at the Rosebank shopping mall.
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/ 7 November 2005
The ombudsman for banking services has warned internet banking clients to make sure they enter the right account numbers for beneficiaries before making payments. This is after a dissatisfied online banking customer complained that money was wrongly paid to a beneficiary after he had entered eight digits instead of nine for an account number.
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/ 7 November 2005
The township of Khutsong was quiet on Monday, with a march and stayaway planned for Friday as the next item on the protest calendar, the South African Communist Party said. The township saw protests last week over residents’ dissatisfaction with proposals to transfer the Merafong municipality from Gauteng to the North West province.
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/ 7 November 2005
A sheriff of the court is ready to confiscate goods to the value of R660 000 from rugby boss Brian van Rooyen, media reports said on Monday. It said this comes after Labat Africa, run by Van Rooyen, broke an agreement with international auditing firm KPMG over the payment of outstanding monies for a government tender.
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/ 7 November 2005
The timber of invasive alien trees cleared off watersheds and river systems around the country is to be used to make "eco-friendly" coffins, the Working for Water Programme said on Monday. Project leader Shaun Cozette said the solid-wood coffins will sell for between R450 and R500 each.
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/ 7 November 2005
South Africa’s fast-bowler Charl Langeveldt was been fined 75% of his match fee for breaching the International Cricket Council (ICC) code of conduct during the fifth and final Standard Bank one-day international match at Supersport Park on Sunday.
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/ 7 November 2005
Man-mountain Senegalese striker Mamadou Diallou led the onslaught as Jomo Cosmos bundled holder Kaizer Chiefs out of the Coca-Cola Cup with an emphatic and deserved 2-0 victory at Rustenburg’s Olympia Park on Sunday afternoon. Chiefs battled resolutely with 10 men until the end.
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/ 7 November 2005
Leisure casino and hospitality group Sun International announced on Monday that the company has entered into a broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction that will result in 7% of the issued share capital of Sun International being owned by a group of historically disadvantaged individuals.
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/ 7 November 2005
Global oil major Total is investing heavily in its African refining and marketing operations, where it expects to record 20% growth over the next few years, according to Philip Jordan, CEO and MD of Total South Africa. He was addressing the Ninth Annual Africa Downstream conference in Cape Town on Monday.