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INO News - Tue Dec 8, 3:10 pm ET
(RTTNews) - After a slight slip in early European session, the US currency surged up against the South African rand in New York deals on Tuesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 5:26 am ET
South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport and togetherness in racially divided South Africa provides a timely lesson as the country prepares to host next year's World Cup.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 10:08 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Absa Capital , the investment banking unit of Barclays Plc’s Absa Group Ltd. , is hiring bankers from Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse AG and Merrill Lynch & Co. as it builds an equities trading business to expand its services.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 11:03 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- SABMiller Plc said the value of a stake that will be sold to black investors increased by 22 percent after its share price rose and the number of participants climbed.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 3:18 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Pick n Pay Stores Ltd. fell the most in almost seven weeks as the company faces a Dec. 11 strike by members of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 8:48 am ET
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The rand weakened after reports showed contractions in the retail and manufacturing industries are continuing, adding to concern the currency’s 25 percent rally this year may slow South Africa’s recovery from recession.
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Black Voices - Wed Dec 9, 9:38 am ET
On the outskirts of Cape Town In the the township of Khayelitsha, lesbians who dare to come out to their community are being violently hauled off the streets and raped by cloaked men in order to "correct" their behavior. Earlier this year, Eudy Simelane , former star of South Africa's acclaimed Banyana Banyana national female football squad, was found dead in a creek on the outskirts of ...
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Entertainment Weekly - 53 minutes ago
Lisa Schwarzbaum: I hate songs in non-musical movies -- especially dramas -- that tell us what to feel
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 49 minutes ago
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar pared its drop against the euro, Australian currency and Norwegian krone as Standard & Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating outlook, discouraging demand for higher-yielding assets.
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 4:33 am ET
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell 505.33, or 1.8 percent, to 26,901.54 by 10:48 a.m. in Johannesburg. The following are among the most active stocks in the South African market today.
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PGA - 2 hours 49 minutes ago
MPUMALANGA, South Africa -- Ernie Els returns this week to the scene of one of his sweetest wins -- and one of his biggest blunders.
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 56 minutes ago
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Zambeef Product Plc, Zambia’s biggest meat producer, said profit for the year through September fell 58 percent to 15.7 billion Zambian kwacha ($3.4 million), according to an e-mailed statement.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 12:31 pm ET
South African President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday urged African leaders attending global climate talks to stand firm on demands that poor countries should receive money to meet pollution targets.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 10:48 pm ET
Surfers in Hawaii got a rare treat, as waves pounding Oahu's famed North Shore reached 40 feet -- high enough for an extreme surfing competition that last happened five years ago.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 5:33 am ET
(Corrects to say stake is equivalent to 14.1 percent in terms of government’s codes on black empowerment in second paragraph.) Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- SABMiller Plc said the value of a stake that will be sold to black investors increased by 22 percent after its share price rose and the number of participants climbed.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 9:38 pm ET
Capsule reviews of films opening this week:
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ESPN Soccernet.com - 1 hour 39 minutes ago
Kagisho Dikgacoi has pleaded with Fulham to allow him to leave on loan in order to safeguard his place in the South Africa squad for the World Cup finals.
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Foreign Policy Blogs - 4 minutes ago
New research by the invaluable South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) indicates that murder rates in South Africa are actually down 30% since 1994-1995. This news flies counter to the stubborn narrative of South African crime escalating out of control. It also should provide something of a palliative for those wringing their hands over [...]
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The Kitsap Sun - 37 minutes ago
‘2012’An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. John Cusack , Amanda Peet , Chiwitel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton top the cast list. PG-13 (intense disaster sequences, language). 2:38. *½ out of ****Showing: Poulsbo, South Sound‘Armored’A newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers ...
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Naples Daily News - Wed Dec 9, 9:00 am ET
Shark ShootoutTeam biosSteve Flesch & Dustin JohnsonFlesch, who is replacing Fred Couples after he withdrew due to back problems Monday, will join one of the hot young players on tour. Johnson, a 26-year-old, has finished in the top-10 five times this year and captured the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am for his second tour victory. Flesch, a left-hander, finished second with Justin Leonard in ...