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/ 10 December 2004
Uganda’s government must do what it can to protect children and women from violence, while the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army must immediately and unconditionally stop abducting, killing and exploiting Uganda’s children, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Thursday. "Children are being killed and raped," it said.
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/ 10 December 2004
City of Cape Town nature conservation officials have at last captured the elusive young male hippo that escaped from the Rondevlei Nature Reserve in February this year. It took six darts and a three-and-a-half hour chase in the dark through reed beds and deep water in the small hours of Thursday morning to get the 800kg animal under control.
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/ 10 December 2004
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has had to balance his praise of government with negative comments to avoid being labelled a ”ruling party lapdog”, said ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe. On Thursday, Motlanthe told delegates at the ANC Gauteng 9th provincial congress that Tutu’s comments were an indication of the pressure on people to conform to the ”ideological straight-jacket of reaction”.
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/ 10 December 2004
The North Rand police have expressed concern over the number of drownings recorded since the start of December. North Rand police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said the police’s water wing has had to recover 10 bodies in the area since the beginning of the month.
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/ 10 December 2004
The secret arms deal to acquire between R8-billion- and R14-billion-worth of highly sophisticated military transport aircraft should be suspended until a meeting is held by the parliamentary joint standing committee on defence, says official opposition Democratic Alliance MP Rafeek Shah.
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/ 10 December 2004
Mark Schmidt came home last week. He is back in Tzaneen, Limpopo, after being in prison in Equatorial Guinea for eight-and-a-half months.
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/ 10 December 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in positive territory in noon trade on Friday, with a weaker currency supporting heavyweight rand hedge stocks. Bargain-hunting was also seen in counters that were oversold over the past couple of days, further lifting the local bourse.
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/ 10 December 2004
The authorisation and record of decision giving the go-ahead for the construction of the N2 Wild Coast toll road, issued by by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism in December last year, has been set aside. However, appeals against the reconstruction and upgrading of the N2 between Tsitsikamma and Witelsbos were rejected.
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/ 10 December 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) on Friday became the first major stock exchange in the world to report its financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), which streamlines and simplifies the flow, preparation and analysis of financial reports and accounting data.
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/ 10 December 2004
On the African continent, growth is projected to accelerate to 4,5% in 2004 — the highest since 1996, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) says in its latest quarterly economic bulletin released on Friday. The SARB said global output growth gained momentum from about mid-2003.