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/ 15 October 2003
All South African airports falling under the authority of the Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) could come to a standstill later this week or early next week when the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union is likely serve a 48-hour strike notice to the company.
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/ 15 October 2003
The South African Department of Home Affairs has been hit by the theft of computer equipment from its offices around the country to the tune of about R1-million in the past year, Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has divulged.
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/ 15 October 2003
Thousands of Eastern Cape taxi drivers say they will support anything that will halt the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme because they still don’t understand it. Nearly four years after the government announced its plan to upgrade the ageing taxi fleet, provincial taxi bodies still complain that they have been excluded from all critical stages of its development.
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/ 15 October 2003
Four people were killed and a fifth wounded on Wednesday in a roadside bomb explosion that hit a convoy of United States diplomatic vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip. The blast, which has been condemned by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, is the first attack of its kind in the Palestinian territories against a US target.
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/ 15 October 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa held on to many of the gains made in morning, with the bourse in the black at midday on Wednesday. The market took cheer from strength in European markets, as well as the positive close in the United States overnight, although banking and financial counters were taking strain.
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/ 15 October 2003
Up to 70% of male Zimbabwean prisoners have sex with other males in jails where the HIV prevalence rate is estimated to be 60%, the state-owned Ziana news agency said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 October 2003
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Sipho Ngwema has accused African National Congress veteran Mac Maharaj and foreign affairs adviser Mo Shaik of delaying tactics. The first public hearing of the Hefer commission, appointed to investigate Ngwema’s boss, Bulelani Ngcuka, was adjourned on Wednesday within its first 15 minutes.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22049">Hefer commission postponed</a>
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/ 15 October 2003
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is conducting a two-week assessment of Uganda’s trouble-afflicted Teso region in the east, with a view to finding a sustainable, long-term solution to the health crisis there. WHO’s representative Dr Walker Oladapo said that medical aid to Teso had achieved little because the infrastructure for delivering health services could not cope with the crisis.
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/ 15 October 2003
The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa (Numsa) on Wednesday said about 8 000 workers at arms manufacturer Denel remain "highly mobilised" for industrial action. Numsa said about 1 000 workers at the Vektor division in Centurion near Pretoria would stage a picket protest action on Wednesday at 12h00.
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/ 15 October 2003
In respect of market size the South African information technology sector grew by 10,9% to R42,3-billion in 2002 and is expected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of 7,7% from 2002 to 2007, ICT market analysts BMI-TechKnowledge (BMI-T) say.