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/ 2 September 2004
Volkswagen South Africa’s (VWSA) plant in Uitenhage produced more than 9 900 cars in August, which resulted in an all-time production record, the company said on Thursday. "We also anticipate an all-time annual production record in 2004," VWSA communication general manager Bill Stephens noted.
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/ 2 September 2004
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel on Thursday launched the Large Business Centre (LBC), which will cover 9 000 companies with a minimum annual turnover of R250-million. Manuel said that the LBC has been established to make it easier for large companies to comply with the law.
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/ 2 September 2004
Twenty Iraqis were killed and six wounded in a United States air strike overnight on suspected Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi safe houses in Fallujah, medical officials and the US military said on Thursday. ”All the wounded are families. Among the dead, there could be two or three children,” said Dr Seifeddin Taha of the Fallujah general hospital.
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/ 2 September 2004
Cape Town pharmacies reopened on Thursday after a one-day protest over threats of arrest if they charged more than new medicine pricing laws allow. On Wednesday, one pharmacist had said the pharmacies "will stay closed until we get leave to appeal. People will have to go to state facilities for their medicine."
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/ 2 September 2004
The names of South Africa’s most celebrated freedom fighters might soon appear on every street corner and building in Potchefstroom, the city council said on Wednesday. Spokesperson Japie Fransman said the next time someone walks down Van der Hoff Street, they might just be walking down a street named after President Thabo Mbeki, ”the country’s favourite man”.
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/ 2 September 2004
Municipal workers in Gauteng will strike for one day next week to highlight grievances with the restructuring of municipal services, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Wednesday. Samwu provincial secretary Silas Letsimo said workers were unhappy with the lack of consultation by the South African Local Government Association.
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/ 2 September 2004
Ronald Grimsley (25) had been high on dagga, heroin and drink and ”lost control for a few minutes” when he allegedly strangled Tanya Flowerday (18) in June last year. Grimsley, who made advertisements for a film company, has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, indecent assault, aggravated robbery and murder on grounds that he was not ”in his sound and sober senses” at the time of the incident.
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/ 2 September 2004
South African mountaineer Lance de Willers has set a world record by being the fastest person to ascend and descend Kilimanjaro. ”The new record is mine,” De Willers said in a statement on Wednesday. ”I am very sore but it is so exhilarating to know that I did it,” he said.
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/ 2 September 2004
Slobodan Milosevic is refusing to take the medicine prescribed for his high blood pressure by United Nations doctors at his cell, jeopardising his trial for war crimes in what prosecutors said on Wednesday was a calculated attempt to delay the trial still further.