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/ 17 October 2003
The New Labour Party has expressed its satisfaction that its leader, Peter Marais, has not been implicated in any wrongdoing over the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development. On Thursday Italian multimillionaire Count Riccardo Agusta pleaded guilty to corruption charges involving politicians in the Western Cape government.
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/ 17 October 2003
The ANC will not abandon national reconciliation, and ”politically motivated lies” will not divide the organisation, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Writing in the African National Congress’ online publication, ANC Today, he questioned the motivation behind The Citizen newspaper’s recent scathing attack on former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre Robert McBride.
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/ 17 October 2003
Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminium maker, is asking federal authorities to stop alleged dumping of aluminium by a South African company. Pittsburgh-based Alcoa petitioned the Commerce Department and the US International Trade Commission seeking intervention to stop alleged dumping of 6 000 series aluminium alloy rolled plate by Hulett Aluminum Ltd.
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/ 17 October 2003
Many fishermen angling from the shore along the Transkei coast are paying lip service to regulations governing the number and size of the fish they may catch, and most are ignorant about closed seasons for certain species.Richard Davies
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/ 17 October 2003
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi has charged that the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal also has a massive, hidden arms cache at its disposal. He was responding to an article in the <i>M&G</i> last week, which revealed that the state investigative unit, the Scorpions, is hunting for an Inkatha arsenal that was set up in the early 1990s.
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/ 17 October 2003
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals has denied it has abused a dominant position in the market to the detriment of consumers, and charged excessive prices for its products. On Thursday, the Competition Commission found that Ingelheim and GlaxoSmithKline abused their dominant positions in their respective anti-retroviral drugs markets.
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/ 17 October 2003
South African media company New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) said on Friday that its board has considered the terms of the offer by the Tiso consortium and believe that because payment of the consideration offered of R10,50 will be made within a relatively short period, and the relative certainty attached to the payment, that the consideration is fair and reasonable to Nail shareholders.
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/ 17 October 2003
My generation knows plenty, despite being born after the death of Elvis. But venture back into the primeval mists of the mid-1970s and we become less certain of things. And nothing is more confounding to us than the notion that once, impossibly long ago, people used something other than the decimal system.
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/ 17 October 2003
The eulogies have begun already. Extraordinary things are being written about the Pope for his 25th jubilee this week, yet these are mere aperitifs for the great banquet of adulation undoubtedly to come when the pontiff finally shuffles off his mortal mitre.