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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was stuck in flat territory, albeit with a more positive bias than this morning, just after midday on Wednesday. Dealers said that direction was being determined largely by futures players, while rand strength was continuing to weigh on the downside.
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/ 12 November 2003
The African National Congress in the Western Cape is in the process of lodging complaints with the Human Rights Commission and the City of Cape Town following allegations of racism against two Democratic Alliance councillors.
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/ 12 November 2003
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won two municipal by-elections – in the Western Cape at Breede River/Robertson municipality and at Dealesville in the Free State unopposed — while the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has won a seat at Phillipstown in the Northern Cape unopposed.
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/ 12 November 2003
For decades the Rastafarian community, in their spiritual home in Shashemene, were not taken seriously and Ethiopians had even termed them ludicrous. But all that was set to change with the efforts of a Rastafarian non-governmental organisation in promoting alternative farming techniques and youth development programmes.
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/ 12 November 2003
The South African Cabinet has approved a comprehensive business plan for the implementation of the Expanded Public Works Programme, which will target the employment of one-million unemployed people over five years, according to President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 12 November 2003
The Hefer Commission of Inquiry — probing spying allegations against National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka — resumes its public hearings on Wednesday in Bloemfontein. President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday ”amended and clarified” the commission’s terms of reference.
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/ 12 November 2003
Conservationist David Bradfield had an interesting story to tell about one of his visits to Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. Wearing the disguise of a tourist, he asked a group of curio sellers in the city whether he could buy ivory from them. "When I asked if they could offer some for sale, one vendor produced three bags of worked ivory, ornaments and souvenirs.
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/ 12 November 2003
George Soros, one of the world’s wealthiest financiers and philanthropists, has declared that getting George Bush out of the White House has become the ”central focus” of his life, and he has put more than -million of his own money where his mouth is.
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/ 12 November 2003
Iran has systematically covered up its nuclear programme for the past two decades and needs ”particularly robust” international inspections to dissolve fears it is developing weapons of mass destruction, the UN’s atomic energy agency has found.
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/ 12 November 2003
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest company, has been taken to court by a group of former immigrant employees who have accused the US supermarket chain of conspiring with cleaning contractors to employ them in conditions that were ”one step away from slavery”, the workers’ lawyers said yesterday.