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/ 10 December 2008
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebels and Kinshasa government officials met for a third day of talks in Nairobi on Wednesday.
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/ 10 December 2008
Chris Lewis, the England Test cricketer once hailed as heir to Ian Botham, was on Tuesday charged with illegally importing cocaine.
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/ 9 December 2008
All the odds seem to be heavily stacked against South Africa’s goal of halving unemployment by 2014, industry players said late on Tuesday.
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/ 9 December 2008
Nedbank and Ecobank have entered into a deal to provide customers access to a pan-African banking network covering 30 countries.
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/ 9 December 2008
SA gold production in October fell 14,4% year-on-year, Statistics South Africa announced on Tuesday.
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/ 8 December 2008
Global stock markets rebounded sharply on Monday on hopes of fresh government action to fight a deepening recession, dealers said.
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/ 6 December 2008
Britons are forbidden from disturbing packs of eggs and from selling game killed on a Sunday, it was revealed this week by an opposition MP.
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/ 6 December 2008
Pakistan was still awaiting "concrete proof" on Saturday that a group based there carried out the devastating Mumbai attacks.
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/ 5 December 2008
Barack Obama on Friday called for an "urgent" effort to stimulate the US economy after the release of the worst job loss figures in 34 years.
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/ 5 December 2008
Cosatu said on Friday it’s "deeply worried" that more than a third of SA companies are likely to retrench staff in the next six months.
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/ 5 December 2008
The JSE remained in the red by midday on Friday weighed by resources and gold stocks, which remained under pressure.
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/ 5 December 2008
Eskom on Friday said that it was "not in a position to invest in nuclear", and has terminated talks it was holding with nuclear technology providers.
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/ 5 December 2008
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk this week requested that President Kgalema Motlanthe form a commission of inquiry to probe the arms deal.
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/ 5 December 2008
‘No worse there is none," was the anguished cry of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins — and it is an apt description of the crisis in Zimbabwe.
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/ 4 December 2008
SA consumers can expect huge savings in telephone and internet costs in the next 12 to 18 months thanks to the launch of a second transatlantic cable.
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/ 4 December 2008
The JSE was up more than 3% at midday on Thursday, building on its earlier gains, helped by climbing resource stocks.
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/ 4 December 2008
SA expects Zimbabwe’s rival political parties to ink a deal on a constitutional amendment within days, paving the way for a unity government.
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/ 4 December 2008
India on Thursday put all of its major airports on high alert following warnings of possible attacks using hijacked airlines, officials said.
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/ 4 December 2008
Americans will on Friday toast the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, which began in 1920 and was repealed in 1933 on economic grounds.
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/ 4 December 2008
Sudanese Minister Ahmed Haroun, accused of orchestrating war crimes in Darfur, denied any wrongdoing in an interview published on Thursday.
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/ 3 December 2008
Brazilian authorities were on Wednesday working to identify a mystery illness that killed a 53-year-old South African man visiting Rio de Janeiro.
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/ 3 December 2008
Another 1 000 permanent and contractual jobs could be lost in the mining industry, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday.
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/ 3 December 2008
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday it is extending its humanitarian operations across the eastern DRC.
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/ 3 December 2008
Thousands of people took to the streets of Mumbai on Wednesday to demand that India’s leaders do more to protect them from extremists.
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/ 3 December 2008
Reflecting what’s on the minds of Americans, "bailout" and "socialism" have beaten "maverick" in a US dictionary word-of-the-year competition.
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/ 3 December 2008
The JSE came off the morning’s highest levels but remained in the black by noon on Wednesday, despite pressured resource stocks.
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/ 3 December 2008
Standard Bank has been recognised for its key role in emerging markets by winning 10 awards, including the prestigious African Bank of the Year title.
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/ 3 December 2008
Former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday praised the team president-elect Barack Obama has assembled.
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/ 3 December 2008
General Motors last week belatedly promised to give up two of its five leased executive jets.
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/ 3 December 2008
The Cedar Restaurant used to be a hole in the wall on a strip of Sea Point’s Main Road frequented by <i>les filles de joie</i>.
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/ 3 December 2008
Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk have written to President Kgalema Motlanthe to request that he establish a commission of inquiry into the arms deal.
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/ 3 December 2008
To a casual observer, it looks no different from a modern Mini. But look closer and there’s something different about the Mini E.