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/ 3 November 2003
The government is to stick to its expansionary fiscal policy despite slower than expected economic growth this year. In an interview last week, Kuben Naidoo, of the Budget Office of the National Treasury, said fiscal policy would be maintained "in a way that is sustainable in the long term".
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/ 3 November 2003
A third outbreak of tribal fighting has cost lives and hit revenue streams in the oil town of Warri in the troubled Niger Delta. A heavy troop presence is maintaining an uneasy calm. But this is not enough to create confidence in the oil industry. Authorities said more than a dozen people died in the fighting last week.
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/ 3 November 2003
Nobody can say that we South Africans don’t know how to enjoy the outdoor life, and when we hitch up our caravans we don’t hang around. Eugene Herbert proved that this week when he set the Guinness World Record for towing a standard caravan with a standard production vehicle.
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/ 3 November 2003
New Zealand overcame a magnificent performance by underdogs Wales to win 53-37 as the World Cup first round drew to a close with a thrilling Pool D battle in Sydney on Sunday.
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/ 3 November 2003
ChevronTexaco could be fined hundreds of millions of dollars and be forced to spend more than -billion cleaning up pollution from 28 years of oil extraction in Ecuador, if a court case that has opened in a small frontier town on the edge of the Amazon forest finds against it.
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/ 3 November 2003
Had there been a roof on the Ellis Park stadium it would have been lifted off following the tumultuous welcome that the crowd gave the visiting Fifa technical team as they walked onto the pitch before Saturday’s Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinal clash between Kaizer Chiefs and Ajax Cape Town.
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/ 3 November 2003
The Coca-Cola Cup competition, worth R2-million, draws closer to the final, but for now the fans of Kaizer Chiefs, Golden Arrows, Wits University and Silver Stars will have to watch their teams fight it out in the semi-finals.
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/ 3 November 2003
Science has long proven false the notion of the existence of “human races”. Biologically we are members of the same species. Our differences of skin colour, body shape, hair and eye colour are simply physical variations, similar to differences found in other species of living things. Colour differences in cattle, for example, do not imply a fundamental difference between them: they are still cattle.
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/ 3 November 2003
SA coach Rudolf Straeuli believes New Zealand will plug its leaky defence in time for Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final between the two southern hemisphere giants. New Zealand conceded four tries against Wales in Sydney on Sunday before running out 53-37 winners in a match many thought the All Blacks would win comfortably.
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/ 3 November 2003
Retief Goosen held off Vijay Singh on Sunday to win the ,8-million Chrysler Championship and keep Tiger Woods alive in a bid for his fifth straight PGA Tour money title.