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/ 21 October 2008
Impala Platinum’s (Implats) R21,2-billion bid for Mvelaphanda Resources and Northam Platinum has moved a step closer to formalisation.
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/ 21 October 2008
Investors should not do anything extreme and lose sight of long-term goals, says Michael King, Africa director of Franklin Templeton Investments.
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/ 21 October 2008
Pick n Pay and BP have combined forces in a pilot programme set to change the face of petroleum retailing and convenience shopping in South Africa.
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/ 21 October 2008
Contradicting its many detractors, the service at the Mount Nelson has long been casual if not unabashedly familiar.
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/ 20 October 2008
Roy du Pré argues that universities of technology have the flexibility to meet the changing demands of industry .
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/ 20 October 2008
Gold Fields estimates that South African mine closures due to fatalities last week have cost it about 300kg (or close to 10 582 ounces).
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/ 20 October 2008
The ANC, under pressure over the amount of land still in white hands, called for the scrapping of laws allowing farmers to set the price.
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/ 18 October 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to press George Bush on Saturday on the need for an overhaul of the international financial system.
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/ 18 October 2008
Zaida Enver gives the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> the low-down on the Johannesburg International Motor Show.
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/ 17 October 2008
The ANC should pay back the R10m it received from businessmen Robert Gumede in the face of allegations that the donor was under police investigation.
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/ 17 October 2008
Harmony Gold, South Africa’s third-largest gold producer, on Friday said it remained "bullish" about the gold price.
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/ 17 October 2008
Thailand Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat rejected pressure to resign on Friday, as thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched in protest.
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/ 17 October 2008
As markets sink and fears grow of global recession, Latin America is banking on gains as well as losses from tourists tightening their purse strings.
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/ 17 October 2008
Nobel laureate JM Coetzee and Japan’s Haruki Murakami were on Friday named on the long list for the richest prize for fiction in Australia.
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/ 17 October 2008
ON CIRCUIT: Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino’s <i>Righteous Kill</i> and <i> The Strangers</i> starring Liv Tyler.
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/ 17 October 2008
In a month our health regime has moved from folly and despair to hope and commitment. With a mandate for change from health minister Barbara Hogan.
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/ 17 October 2008
After Stephen Gray savaged me in the pages of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> a few weeks ago, I immediately responded, thanks to the new age of blogs.
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/ 16 October 2008
It seems to be no longer a question of if, but rather when, a new political party will emerge. All Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa need is a name.
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/ 16 October 2008
The rand currency was recovering on Thursday, one day after its biggest fall for more than a decade.
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/ 16 October 2008
Emergency measures to tackle the financial crisis provided little relief on Thursday, as stock markets around the world took a battering.
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/ 16 October 2008
The top 14 car-makers in the European market still had to cut emissions by 17% to reach the EU’s 2012 target of 130 grams a kilometre.
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/ 15 October 2008
Nato warships were steaming through the Suez Canal on Wednesday en route to Somalia to help combat piracy off the lawless African country’s coast.
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/ 15 October 2008
Fears grew on Wednesday that the financial crisis will mutate into a worldwide recession, with leaders calling for new global action.
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/ 15 October 2008
Somali pirates hijacked a Philippines-managed bulk carrier with 21 sailors aboard on Wednesday, a maritime watchdog said.
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/ 15 October 2008
United States pop superstar Madonna is to divorce her British film director husband Guy Ritchie, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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/ 15 October 2008
MySpace on Tuesday launched an overhauled karaoke channel that lets amateur crooners post online video of themselves in all their vocal glory.
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/ 14 October 2008
Retail banks continue to feel the strain of burdened consumers, the latest Ernst & Young bank index released on Tuesday indicates.
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/ 14 October 2008
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers listen to new albums by DeVotchKa, Promise and the Monster, Galactic, Dean Martin, Jakob Dylan and others.
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/ 14 October 2008
One person was killed and thousands were evacuated on Monday as a series of wind-driven wildfires swept across California.
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/ 14 October 2008
In a career littered with comebacks, Republican John McCain is now vowing one more effort to overhaul Barack Obama’s commanding poll lead.
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/ 14 October 2008
Asian stocks surged on Tuesday after world governments threw lifelines to ailing banks in a bid to end the financial crisis.
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/ 14 October 2008
Having sabotaged eco-innovations, the motor industry is now demanding billions, writes George Monbiot.