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/ 10 September 2004
Angola has expelled 418 foreigners, mostly Congolese, as part of its ongoing crackdown on diamond traffickers, police commander Tito Munana was quoted as saying in newspaper reports on Friday. The foreigners were part of a group of 1 005 people detained last month as part of Operation Diamond launched by police and the army in December last year to end trafficking in resources.
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/ 10 September 2004
Beer giant South African Breweries (SAB) says its lawyers are considering whether to appeal a Labour Court judgement that it wrongly dismissed 115 workers in 2001. The announcement was made on Friday to a group of about 40 of the workers who gathered at the gates of the company’s brewery in Newlands, Cape Town, demanding to be taken back into service.
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/ 10 September 2004
This weekend, on the third anniversary of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, South Africans are gathering in small numbers to watch pirated copies of Michael Moore’s award winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Some are also paying to watch the pirated copies. The film is to released to about 50 cinemas nationwide, ahead of the intial release date of 2005.
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/ 10 September 2004
Efforts to accelerate change in the agricultural sector without disrupting production have run into stiff resistance from both established and emerging farmers. The Black Economic Empowerment in Agriculture (AgriBEE) charter published by the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs in July was not well received by most stakeholders.
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/ 10 September 2004
Moroka Matutle, office manager for the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), has conceded he acted without authority in bringing last week’s unsuccessful court bid to stop the Mail & Guardian from hitting the streets. The M&G reported that NCOP chairperson Joyce Kgoali and African National Congress chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe are among 13 MPs who failed to fully disclose their financial interests.
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/ 10 September 2004
After languishing for several years in the realm of policy, micro-economic reform is front-and-centre in the government’s programme of action. Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin may miss this month’s deadline for announcing the infrastructure investment plans of parastatals, but he and his colleagues in the Cabinet economics cluster are due to make numerous other significant announcements.
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/ 10 September 2004
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Foundation are contemplating a class action lawsuit to compel Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to publish findings of investigations into military atrocities against civilians in Matabeleland in the 1980s.
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/ 10 September 2004
If Parliament were a church, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, the leader of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), might need time in the confessional.
As the Christian Church has a Bible, so Parliament has a code of conduct, in terms of which MPs are required to declare their business interests every year. Meshoe didn’t do so and admitted as much this week.
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/ 10 September 2004
Although China is half a world away from South Africa, what happens in China will probably set the course for South Africa for at least the next two decades as 1,2-billion Chinese consumers enter a material-intensive consumption phase similar to the one western Europe went through in the 1950s and 1960s.
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/ 10 September 2004
Gerhard Wisser, the German-South African who is a key suspect in an international nuclear technology smuggling network, was a supplier to apartheid’s nuclear weapons programme, the Mail & Guardian has been told. Wisser was arrested in Germany on August 25 on charges of ”aiding the attempted development of atomic weapons”, but released on bail.