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/ 10 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was still stuck in negative territory by midday on Monday, although off the weaker levels seen at the opening. Dealers said that the firmness in the rand was dragging the market lower, as were softer European equities and the weak close in the US on Friday.
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/ 10 November 2003
Four people were killed and seven wounded on Sunday in a village outside the capital of war-torn central African country of Burundi after having been detained by army troops, witnesses said.
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/ 10 November 2003
Former president Nelson Mandela was his usual humorous self on Sunday when he went to a voting station in Johannesburg.
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/ 10 November 2003
The stakes in the ten day old Airports Company South Africa dispute have risen with baggage handling workers and South Africa Airways cabin crew walking off the job in support of the Acsa workers demands for a 10% wage increase.
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/ 10 November 2003
Mauritanian police arrested top opposition presidential candidate Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah for a second time on Sunday on suspicion of planning a coup following the re-election of longtime leader Maaouiya Ould Taya.
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/ 10 November 2003
Nissan South Africa has started the process of identifying customers affected by a global recall campaign on some X-TRAIL and Almera models. The offending component is a rotating sensor.
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/ 10 November 2003
The battered body of an 11-year-old girl kidnapped on Saturday was found close to a Johannesburg mine dump on Sunday, police reported. Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said the girl, Tina Benade, was reported missing from Jeppestown on Saturday.
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/ 10 November 2003
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is consulting with its lawyers after City Press newspaper said on Sunday the agency was the source of evidence for spy allegations against the National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 10 November 2003
In the small town of Opelousas, Louisiana, two Catholic churches sit side by side. There is the Holy Ghost, for African Americans, and St Landry, for whites. In between is the cemetery where, by law and then by custom, people of the same faith have been buried separately according to their race.
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/ 10 November 2003
Fears were growing on Sunday night that a bombing which killed at least 17 people in Saudi Arabia could herald a new wave of attacks by al-Qaeda sympathisers throughout the Middle East. Anonymous postings on Arabic websites over the last three to four weeks have hinted at ”a wave of violence coming on quite a big scale”.