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/ 20 January 2005
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk should break his silence on the escalating crime against tourists in Cape Town by calling a summit to address "this crisis" and raise its priority in the government’s Budget, the official opposition Democratic Alliance said on Thursday.
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/ 20 January 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) outgoing CEO Peter Matlare has been appointed to Vodacom South Africa in the capacity of executive director: commercial, with effect from April 1, the group announced on Thursday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=195693&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/">SABC boss resigns</a>
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/ 20 January 2005
United States theme-park visitors will get the chance to confront their phobias when the often stomach-churning reality television show <i>Fear Factor</i> becomes a live amusement-park game. Universal Studios is planning the opening of its <i>Fear Factor Live</i> shows at its Hollywood and Orlando, Florida, theme parks.
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/ 20 January 2005
United Kingdom banking group Barclays Bank plc, which is in talks with South African banking group Absa, said on Thursday that it has made an offer to acquire the wealth business of ING Securities Bank (France), consisting of ING Ferri and ING Private Banking.
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/ 20 January 2005
China is considering setting up a post office in Antarctica after several trial deliveries to the world’s southernmost continent, state media reported on Wednesday. The Beijing International Post Office plans to send an official to the Great Wall research station near the South Pole to investigate if there is a need for such a service.
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/ 20 January 2005
Excited archaeologists are sifting through the contents of 150-year-old New Zealand toilets to get a better understanding of the everyday lives of early settlers. Although there is plenty of oral and written history, there are gaps that can only be answered by lifting the lid on the sanitary habits of pioneering families, they say.
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/ 20 January 2005
A group of Malaysian local government officials has cancelled an Egyptian cruise and a troupe of belly dancers amid outrage at their all-expenses paid trip, media reports said on Thursday. Dinner on board a cruise ship on the Nile and the belly dancing have been replaced on their itinerary by an extended visit to the Egypt Museum.
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/ 20 January 2005
Readers who’d like to support charity and stand in line to win a car for a year can SMS their prediction for the winner of the 2005 Car of the Year competition.
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/ 20 January 2005
Bored with those silly superbikes and adventure tourers? Want to experience a different side of two-wheeled fun? Do you have, or can you borrow a scooter for the weekend of 14 – 16 January? "If so, come spend the weekend riding up Sani Pass with a bunch of kindred souls" says Gavin Foster.
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/ 20 January 2005
"What one wants in the CEO of South Africa’s public broadcaster is easy to identify, but hard to find: a commitment to the belief that broadcasting can be a force to improve society…and a resolute political independence that puts the Constitution and Bill of Rights, rather than the government and the ruling party, at the centre of the frame".
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/ 19 January 2005
Mining magnate Roger Kebble’s fraud case was struck from the roll of the Johannesburg Regional Court on Wednesday. According to the charge sheet, Kebble faced 62 counts of fraud relating to allegedly inflated invoices issued to Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD), on which DRD paid Skilled Labour Brokers. The excess money of about R7-million was allegedly in Kebble’s account.
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/ 19 January 2005
Oscar-winning <i>Lord of the Rings</i> moviemaker Peter Jackson has put his own money into a screen version of the bestselling novel <i>The Lovely Bones</i>, the industry press said this week.
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/ 19 January 2005
Journalists and advertisers are bound together like squabbling conjoined twins. Advertising pays most of a newspaper’s bills, while journalists bring the readers the advertiser wants to speak to. Anyone who has been in a media environment will be aware that it is a difficult relationship. Managed, in most cases, by keeping roles and responsibilities clearly separate.
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/ 18 January 2005
A new biography of Abraham Lincoln is making headlines with its assertion that the romantic leanings of the renowned 16th president of the United States were primarily homosexual. <i>The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln</i>, by CA Tripp, has ruffled more than a few feathers.
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/ 18 January 2005
Pharmacists will not be breaking the law should they not abide by the government’s dispensing-fee rule for medication, and have nothing to fear from threats by the Department of Health to prosecute those who do not adhere to the government’s regulations, says Anthony Norton, attorney for the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=178127">Pharmacies charge ‘whatever they want'</a>
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/ 18 January 2005
Sales in the local new vehicle market climbed to a record 22% last year, showing signs that the economy is arguably at its best in decades, eQuals group executive Loffie Geyser said on Tuesday. Geyser warned that the current mood of over-spending — due to low interest rates and the overall buoyant economic mood — could have a negative impact within the next 12 to 24 months.
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/ 18 January 2005
From a case of child prostitution in the White House and secret military experiments at the Montauk United States air force base — including time travel and mind control — to an unidentified flying object being spotted in an official Nasa picture from Mars, Ian Fraser uncovers all this and a whole lot more.
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/ 17 January 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Monday reacted to cleric Allan Boesak’s presidential pardon by focusing on the 394 names it has also submitted for pardon. It was announced over the weekend that Boesak had been granted a presidential pardon, which expunged his criminal record of fraud and theft.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=178042">Boesak’s pardon raises hackles</a>
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/ 17 January 2005
A French cook who worked for no pay and no vacation for 17 years has won a case against his former employers after producing evidence of his exploitation that had lawyers shaking their heads in disbelief. A labour tribunal has awarded Philippe Pitiot €70 742 (about R558 000) in back pay for the past five years.
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/ 17 January 2005
Health and beauty retailer New Clicks has increased its turnover from continuing operations by 25% in the four months from September 1 to December 31 2004, versus the previous year, aided by the inclusion of pharmacy operations compared with the year-earlier period. Group sales totalled R2,97-billion for the four months.
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/ 17 January 2005
Barloworld Handling — a division of South African diversified brands group Barloworld — has secured an agreement worth more than R90-million to supply Hyster equipment and services to Beaulieu of America, one of the largest carpet manufacturers in the United States.
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/ 17 January 2005
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexis II, assured his flock on Friday that new identification documents to be introduced in Russia will not contain the "sign of the Antichrist" despite scare-mongering rumors to the contrary, Itar-Tass reported. The patriarch was speaking ahead of a meeting of clerics in Moscow.
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/ 17 January 2005
Tired of hearing reports of visitors paying grossly inflated prices for taxi rides in his city, the mayor of Prague disguised himself as an Italian visitor — and promptly unmasked a driver whose meter ran at more than six times the normal rate, a newspaper said on Friday.
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/ 17 January 2005
You know what, it’s hard to get your head around what they are really trying to get your head around these days. Who, for example, is Jeb Bush? What was he doing in Indonesia, walking around in sloppy trousers behind Colin Powell? Who, indeed, is Colin Powell? Isn’t he the guy who spent days arguing that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and therefore an invasion was necessary?
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/ 16 January 2005
Nelson Mandela’s grandson followed the former president’s example on Saturday by telling thousands of mourners at his father’s funeral that his mother had also died of Aids last year. Mandla Mandela was speaking at the funeral of his father, Makgatho (54), Nelson’s last surviving son.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=178012">Hundreds support Mandela at funeral</a>
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/ 16 January 2005
Two United States defence contractors being sued over allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison have been awarded valuable new contracts by the Pentagon, despite demands that they should be barred from any new government work. Three employees of CACI International and Titan were separately accused of abusive behaviour.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=178000">US soldier guilty of jail abuse</a>
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/ 15 January 2005
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/ 14 January 2005
Having led his country back into the international mainstream after renouncing ambitions to build weapons of mass destruction, Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi is now being immortalised by a leading British opera company, it said on Thursday. The as-yet-unnamed work was commissioned by the English National Opera.
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/ 14 January 2005
After the revelation of a grilled-cheese sandwich allegedly bearing an image of the Virgin Mary in Florida last year, a bar manager in Switzerland said on Thursday he is ready to sell a Christ-like oyster shell. Matteo Brandi, who runs a bar in the western Swiss village of Roche, came across the shell while he was opening a batch of oysters.