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/ 3 November 2005
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel says the tax revenue lost through avoidance schemes "clearly runs into billions" of rand and the South African authorities are fine-tuning a mechanism to close existing gaps. He was speaking at the release of a South African Revenue Services discussion paper on tax avoidance.
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/ 3 November 2005
The Springbok team to face Argentina on Saturday was announced a press conference on Wednesday morning. Springbok coach Jake White recalled utility back Conrad Jantjes as replacement for Breyton Paulse, who is unavailable due to club commitments in France.
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/ 3 November 2005
Orlando Pirates, the self-proclaimed ”Happy People” of the Premier Soccer League, on Wednesday found themselves looking more like the ”Harassed People” as an assortment of problems descended on the glum Buccaneers camp. The increasingly shaky log leaders’ woes started with a defeat against Lamontville Golden Arrows.
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/ 3 November 2005
Ajax Cape Town advanced to the semifinal of the lucrative Coca-Cola Cup competition when they beat the star-studded Mamelodi Sundowns on a penalty shoot-out 5-4 in a quarterfinal game played at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night. Ajax opened the scoring in the third minute.
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/ 3 November 2005
If Jomo Cosmos want to stay in top-flight football, they will have to keep their fingers crossed that their Zambian striker Christopher Katongo stays fit. Katongo proved a handful as he guided his visiting Cosmos side to a morale-boosting 3-0 victory over Supersport United in their Castle Premiership encounter on Wednesday evening.
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/ 3 November 2005
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has threatened to take legal action against vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath within days if the authorities do not move to halt his activities. The Rath Foundation advocates its vitamin products as a treatment for HIV/Aids. It claims anti-retrovirals are toxic.
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/ 3 November 2005
The Humansdorp fire department was still frantically answering telephone calls on Wednesday evening as blazes ran rampant through the southern part of the Eastern Cape. A spokesperson said the N2 highway, which was closed to traffic earlier on Wednesday and had vehicles backed up for kilometres, had been reopened.
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/ 3 November 2005
Rob Amato of the Sunday Independent and the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s Jessica Pitchford won the Webber Wentzel Bowens Legal Journalist of the Year Award for 2005 in the print and electronic media divisions respectively. Chief Justice Pius Langa was the guest speaker at the function.
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/ 3 November 2005
Taxi drivers slowly edged their minibuses around boulders placed in the roads of Khutsong, in the Carletonville area, after a day of protests on Wednesday over a proposal that the Merafong municipality be incorporated into the North West province. It is in Gauteng at present.
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/ 2 November 2005
The 2010 Soccer World Cup will probably cost companies R750-million in worker absenteeism, a report said on Wednesday. It is predicted that at least one in three South African employees will take time off — disguised as sick leave — to watch soccer, according to the report by absentee management company AIC Insurance.
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/ 2 November 2005
”The funeral industry is not as clean as they pretend to be,” says Johan Rousseau, a founding member of the United Funeral Association of South Africa (Ufasa). On Wednesday, the South African Council of Churches and Ufasa called on the government to regulate the industry at the Funeral Indaba towards Regulation in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
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/ 2 November 2005
After two years of preparation, the Johannesburg Gay Games bid committee will present its final bid to host the 2010 Gay Games on November 12 in Chicago, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Johannesburg is bidding against Paris, France, and Cologne, Germany.
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/ 2 November 2005
Urgent action is necessary to prevent a new war erupting between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan warned last week that the deterioration of the situation between the two countries could lead to another round of devastating hostilities.
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/ 2 November 2005
A court application by two companies wanting to be declared the black economic empowerment (BEE) partners in the Gautrain project was dismissed with costs in the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday. The application was to decide whether the companies held a 25% stake in the preferred bidder for the Gautrain project.
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/ 2 November 2005
There was little or no sentiment when Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter named his 19-man Bafana Bafana squad on Wednesday for the tussle against Senegal in the Nelson Mandela Cup in Port Elizabeth next weekend. Baxter picked an evenly balanced side of experience and youthful exuberance.
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/ 2 November 2005
The government may amend the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (Fica) to give it more stringency in the fight against money laundering and international terrorism. The justice, crime prevention and security cluster of ministries is to strengthen counter-measures against money laundering and the funding of international terrorism.
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/ 2 November 2005
A woman whose nose was bitten off by a seal on Sunday, will undergo reconstructive surgery on Thursday. ”I’m feeling alright,” Elsie van Tonder said on Tuesday from her bed in Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. ”The doctors are going to reconstruct my nose on Thursday.”
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/ 2 November 2005
When coach Stuart Baxter on Wednesday reveals the Bafana Bafana squad for next Saturday’s Nelson Mandela Cup game against Senegal in Port Elizabeth, the decision whether to include Orlando Pirates’ mercurial midfielder Benedict Vilakazi will be his and his alone.
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/ 2 November 2005
South Africa dropped Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje on Tuesday from their final two one-day internationals against New Zealand. Team management wants to play their replacements for this month’s tour of India. Gibbs and Boje withdrew from the tour on Monday because they may be arrested in India on match-fixing charges.
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/ 2 November 2005
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has received eight bids for the hosting of the final tournament of the African Nations Cup in 2010. Angola, Libya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe each put in a bid to host the event, while Equatorial Guinea and Gabon submitted a joint bid.
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/ 2 November 2005
A new counter that reflects the estimated real-time number of Aids-related deaths in South Africa has been posted on www.redribbon.co.za.
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/ 2 November 2005
A retired University of the Witwatersrand professor fell to his death from the Senate House building on the campus on Tuesday afternoon, according to a university spokesperson. Primarashni Gower said Professor Albert Boyd had been with the School of Statistics and Actuarial Science.
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/ 2 November 2005
Hundreds of residents of Migson Manor in Lenasia South, Johannesburg, blocked the Golden Highway with burning tyres after a taxi knocked down and killed a teenager on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Migson Manor Residents’ Association spokesperson Emmanuel Mphelo said residents were very agitated.
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/ 2 November 2005
A number of fires in the Humansdorp area of the Eastern Cape were extinguished by 8.15pm on Tuesday, fire-department official Andrew Pietersen said. ”The Jeffrey’s Bay fire and the St Francis fire have been extinguished,” he said. Earlier, he said fires were ”jumping from one place to another”.
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/ 2 November 2005
The ministry of justice is studying the United Nations report on the corruption-riddled Iraqi oil-for-food programme and will advise the government on the best course of action, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs — but the Democratic Alliance says the government has adopted a ”head-in-the-sand approach” to the report.
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/ 2 November 2005
Standard Bank on Tuesday said it had successfully shut down fraudulent websites of an international syndicate trying to rob thousands of customers of their money. ”No Standard Bank customers lost any money in the latest attack,” said the bank’s information technology security director, Louis Lehmann.
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/ 1 November 2005
Beaufort West human rights worker Vuyisa Jantjies faces expulsion from the African National Congress if he carries on accusing its provincial leadership of being soft on corruption, an ANC disciplinary panel has warned. But Jantjies, a staffer at the Karoo Centre for Human Rights and one of the most vocal opponents of the town’s controversial municipal manager Truman Prince, has no intention of backing down.
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/ 1 November 2005
The Shoprite group of companies has acquired the entire issued share capital of Computicket from Media24, the two companies announced on Tuesday. They said the transaction was subject to the approval of the Competition Commission and was now secured.
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/ 1 November 2005
If Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has his way, arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne’s drive to court in his rusty Fiat Uno on Wednesday morning will be one of the last trips he makes in the car. Manuel’s bid to sequestrate Crawford-Browne, a vocal opponent of the multibillion-rand arms deal, will be heard in the Cape High Court on Wednesday along with a string of counter-claims by Crawford-Browne.
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/ 1 November 2005
The Diamonds Amendment Bill would not introduce nationalisation in the diamond industry, Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy Lulu Xingwana said on Tuesday. The Bill was passed by the National Assembly with objections noted from the official opposition Democratic Alliance, the African Christian Democratic Party and the Freedom Front Plus.
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/ 1 November 2005
Unemployment-induced poverty was causing many government housing beneficiaries to move back into shacks, a Human Sciences Research Council report revealed on Tuesday. ”Unemployment is undermining South Africa’s housing delivery strategy,” researcher Catherine Cross told reporters in Pretoria.
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/ 1 November 2005
The body of an employee of the KwaZulu-Natal department of local government, housing and traditional affairs was discovered in his office on Durban’s Victoria Embankment on Tuesday morning, four days after he was reported missing by his family. The department is in a state of shock, said a spokesperson.