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/ 3 November 2003
Four Stellenbosch University students who allegedly shot seven women students with a pellet gun at the university in July this year had their case postponed in absentia on Monday to next year. the four students’ next appearance would be on February 2, 2004, when the jurisdiction of the case would be decided.
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/ 3 November 2003
Once upon a time, his mission was to ensure that there were houses for those who needed them and better roads for all. Today David Thebehali, the first mayor of Soweto, is a pastor at the Faithways Bible Church in Booysens, Johannesburg, but he is promising homes in heaven for believers and roads to salvation for all.
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/ 3 November 2003
The start of the trial on genocide charges of four Rwandan former ministers was delayed on Monday because one of the accused’s lawyers was not present in the UN tribunal, the independent Hirondelle news agency reported.
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/ 3 November 2003
The High Court in Zimbabwe on Monday began hearing a challenge by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai against President Robert Mugabe’s victory in last year’s disputed polls. The hearing comes 18 months after Tsvangirai first filed a petition against the election.
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/ 3 November 2003
SA Transport and Allied Workers Union members were continuing with a strike on Monday while the Airports Company of SA and union representatives were in a meeting with the purpose of resolving the wage dispute.
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/ 3 November 2003
South African Wine Industry Trust (Sawit) chairperson Gavin Pieterse has pledged to have the first draft of a new black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for a historically disempowered wine industry ready for review in six months.
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/ 3 November 2003
The United Kingdom will do all in its power to ensure that no Zimbabwean starves during the period leading up to the establishment of a democratically accountable government in that country, the Minister For Africa at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chris Mullin, said on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2003
The Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party on Sunday urged South Africans to register next weekend for the 2004 general elections. Speaking at a rally for his party and the IFP in Soweto, DA leader Tony Leon blamed apathy for the fact that so many people have not registered, and would be unable to vote next year.
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/ 3 November 2003
Many foreign investors are currently adopting a "wait and see" attitude towards investing in South Africa, despite the country’s many positive factors and perceptions of it having a relatively moderate risk-reward payoff over five years, according to a newly released report on foreign investor perceptions of South Africa.
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/ 3 November 2003
The Soweto suburb of Meadowlands suffers more murders and twice as many burglaries as Johannesburg’s flatland, Hillbrow, research by the Institute of Security Studies has shown. Researcher Patrick Burton said that, overall, there was more violent crime in the Jo’burg inner city than in Meadowlands, but that if the trend continued the position would soon be reversed.