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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was unable to hold on to early gains on Tuesday, instead heading south on the back of weaker European markets and profit taking after four straight days of gains. Weakness was most pronounced at the top end of the market.
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Malawi President Bakili Muluzi has defended his numerous overseas trips, saying they benefit the impoverished southern African country. Muluzi, who has just returned from a three-week trip to Asia, told a press conference that his critics were ”ignorant” and that he needed to travel in order to ”engage people”.
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/ 14 October 2003
The SA Transport and Allied Workers Union and Airports Company of South Africa reached a deadlock at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration Gauteng on Friday. In a statement Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven said the only area of dispute was the basic wage increase.
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/ 14 October 2003
Revolutionary new breast cancer detection technology that could eventually replace the mammogram is being piloted in under-privileged communities across South Africa while its distributors await the issuance of a reimbursement tariff from medical aid.
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/ 14 October 2003
Members of Nigeria’s 17-million-strong Anglican Church — the world’s second-largest Anglican congregation — spent a day fasting and praying on Monday to protest the confirmation of homosexual priests and bishops in the United States and Britain.
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/ 14 October 2003
Over 17-million people in Ethiopia may need emergency food aid by 2007, according to a food security watchdog. The US government’s Famine Early Warning System Network (Fews) said 17,3-million people could need help because of declining rainfall levels and a spiralling population which are fuelling chronic food shortages.
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/ 14 October 2003
”Demonstrations here never last more than 10 minutes before the police move in,” photojournalist Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi remarks casually. It is another misleadingly tranquil day in Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare, where Mukwazhi and two colleagues are keeping tabs on a group advocating for a new constitution, the National Constitutional Assembly.
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/ 14 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal backs the filling of a proposed posts for parliamentary commissioners to the Zulu king from the ranks of provincial MPs — and would not oppose an Inkatha Freedom Party candidate. This follows a row between IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Premier Lionel Mtshali.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=21848">Buthelezi denies rift with KZN premier</a>
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/ 14 October 2003
At the end of a potholed dirt track in an impoverished Albanian port town stands a concrete hut with a small TV antenna fixed to the roof. Outside a scrawny cow picks for grass between shreds of old plastic bags. Inside, Fatmira Bonjaku, seven months pregnant, explains why she gave away her three-year-old son to a childless Italian couple.
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/ 14 October 2003
During the past six years Fidelity Guards lost R274-million in robberies, the coordinator of the company’s cash-in-transit investigation told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. The court is to sentence the convicted former Southgate Clicks store manager Richard Molimi.