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BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
The first shipment of 1.3 litre Ford RoCam engines manufactured by the company’s improved South African production facility left for Europe last month. Ford’s Port Elizabeth plant had been designated as a supplier of the component to the company’s assembly lines worldwide.…

BY RICHARD HURST
FOLLOWING the decision by US based energy group Exlon to abandon South Africa’s nuclear pebble bed modular reactor project, its remaining shareholders are reported to be seeking new partners. Exlon had a 12.5 per cent interest in the initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN football association UEFA launched a joint-anti smoking campaign with the European Commission on the eve of the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The two organisations booked television advertising space to broadcast their anti-tobacco message, using international footballers including French star Zinedine Zidane and Portugal’s Luis Figo.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
IN a move expected to modernise the sale and marketing of South African wool, the National Wool Growers Association of South Africa has announced that it will investigate adopting the New Zealand Product Advancement (PAC) wool classification system in the future.…

BY RICHARD HURST
P&O Nedlloyd has been appointed the preferred shipper for Malaysian garment company Rematex Berhad, which is building a $100 million clothing factory in Windhoek, Namibia. The logistics and container partner conveyed plant from Malaysia to Namibia last year in two block shipments and is currently delivering cotton consignments from west Africa.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
A TEXTILE manufacturer in Newcastle, South Africa, has been ordered by the South African Department of Labour to pay SA Rand 501,287 (around US$50,000) owing in back-pay to 87 workers. Pranton Textiles has been cited for disregarding the minimum wage regulations, along with the neighbouring Three Circle and Python textile companies, which have been told to stump up Rand 32,000 collectively.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has sought to counteract criticism that the EU is failing to sufficiently help small cotton producers in Africa. In a public statement, he has highlighted the ongoing liberalisation of import quotas, notably the duty free access for cotton from the ACP (Africa, Carabbean and Pacific) countries that have close links with Brussels.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
Japan’s Nissan Motor Ltd has begun exporting vehicles from plants in Thailand to Indonesia as part of a plan to make the south-east Asian kingdom its main supplier of vehicles in the region. Nissan plans to take advantage of the fact that the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is lowering duties on locally made vehicles to increase shipments in the region of passenger cars and pickup trucks from Thailand, and commercial vehicles from Indonesia.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SYDNEY is the “defamation capital of the English-speaking world” according to a British legal expert working in Australia’s largest city. Based on his research, figures show that one writ is served for every 79,000 people in the state of New South Wales; a higher rate than England, (one writ per 121,000 people), and much higher than the United States, where the proportion us one writ per 2.3 million people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SOCIOLOGISTS and police have gathered together at Europol’s headquarters in the Hague, to share intelligence on a number of killings across Europe that appear to have been ritualistic in nature; these include the “Adam” case, where the savagely dismembered torso of a boy about five years old, was found in the Thames last September.…