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The Bloemfontein High Court on Tuesday dismissed with costs an application by journalist Ranjeni Munusamy to protect her from testifying before the Hefer commission. Judge president JP Malherbe found that Hefer’s ruling that she must testify before other witnesses are called did not violate her constitutional rights.
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/ 11 November 2003
Police now suspect foul play following what appeared to be insecticide poisoning at two Medscheme buildings in Florida, Johannesburg on Friday of last week and again on Monday. About 80 employees had to be taken to hospital on Monday after many of them suffered symptoms of nausea and vomiting.
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/ 11 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was looking soggy at midday, with the continued strength in the rand and damp European equities weighing on the bourse. At noon the all-share index was 1,21% weaker, the all-share industrial index was 0,94% lower and the financial index slipped 0,44%.
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/ 11 November 2003
The litter-strewn streets of Africa’s largest and arguably dirtiest city woke up to a new broom on Monday, as Lagos’s latest uniformed enforcement squad launched a mammoth clean-up mission.
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/ 11 November 2003
The Anglican Church of Kenya has barred all its 28 dioceses from having any involvement with Gene Robinson, the new bishop of New Hampshire in the United States — and the first openly gay clergyman.
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/ 11 November 2003
A wide range of organisations have gathered in Cape Town to ask Parliament not to pass the Communal Land Rights Bill, which they claim gives too much power to traditional leaders to the detriment of the rural poor. However, the groups differed on how to lobby government to accede to their demands.
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/ 11 November 2003
The United States on Monday tried to tamp down controversy over a two-million-dollar bounty for former Liberian president Charles Taylor, suggesting the money might not be used as a reward for his capture. The State Department said it was discussing what to do with the money.
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Empowerment is a business imperative that South African companies need to embark upon as black economic empowerment (BEE) accreditation will allow them to maintain their existing positions, executive chairman of industrial group Bidvest (BVT) Brian Joffe said on Monday.
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/ 11 November 2003
Although nominal South African house prices have more than doubled since the beginning of 1999, this does not mean that South Africa is currently experiencing a house price bubble as the real price of houses is still 20% below the 1983 peak, South African commercial bank Absa said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 November 2003
These are perilous times for journalists working in Africa. ”Hardly a week goes by without a journalist being deported here … or threatened elsewhere,” said Herve Bourges, president of the International Union of the Francophone Press, in the Gabonese capital.