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/ 6 November 2003
Seven days is how much time South Africa has to impress the Fifa inspectors; seven years is how much time the country will have to prepare to host the World Cup soccer tournament if they can clinch the 24 Fifa member votes in six months time in Zurich.
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/ 6 November 2003
Seven people were executed by firing squad early on Thursday in the Chadian capital Ndjamena in the first application of capital punishment in the desert country since 1991.
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/ 6 November 2003
A report on the Saulspoort bus tragedy, released on Thursday, stated that brakes were defective on at least three of the disaster bus’s wheels. Free State MEC for public works, roads and transport Sekhopi Malebo released the report, compiled by a Pretoria company specialising in such investigations.
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/ 6 November 2003
The larger-than-expected 150 basis points cut in the repo rate announced on October 16 is likely to spur South Africa’s consumer into buying more interest-rate sensitive durable goods. This is already reflected in the October new car sales, which rose by 20,2% y/y after a 0,5% y/y decline in the first half.
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/ 6 November 2003
A new Californian law could mark the first step toward increasing access to medication that many Aids experts believe can prevent HIV infection.
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/ 6 November 2003
South Africa would not go down the same path as Zimbabwe where people had taken the law into their own hands, because people were frustrated with the pace of land reform, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Thursday.
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/ 6 November 2003
South African President Thabo Mbeki will host his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday. The Brazilian president will be on a working visit to Pretoria for bilateral political and economic discussions, the government news agency BuaNews reported on Thursday.
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/ 6 November 2003
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda sent <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> an impassioned plea for trade from developed nations rather than aid, saying taxpayers in those nations paid twice for development assistance.
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/ 6 November 2003
South African Department of Labour on Wednesday said over one thousand contravention notices and almost 170 prohibition orders were issued by inspectors during last week’s blitz inspections of the construction industry, which ran from October 27 to 31.
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/ 6 November 2003
The South African Chamber of Business Business Confidence Index continued to increase to another highest level of 116,4 in October after the high of 112,3 reached in September and the 110,9 in August.