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Zimbabwe’s silos ”are full”, and the country has enjoyed ”a wonderful harvest” in the last year, the country’s ambassador to South Africa, Simon Khaya Moyo, told the National Assembly’s foreign affairs portfolio committee on Wednesday. Moyo would not comment on the jail sentence of opposition MP Roy Bennett.
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The race by foreign banks for a chunk of the South African banking pie appears to be hotting up. The bid by United Kingdom banking group Barclays plc for Absa seems to be gaining momentum, and emerging-market banking group Standard Chartered has reiterated its intention to garner a bigger slice of the South African market.
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South Africans on Wednesday bemoaned a black day for the world and Africa as George Bush appeared headed for another term in office. ”I have been keeping my fingers crossed that the American people will see some light, finally,” said Amina Cachalia, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and a top campaigner for women’s rights.
SA politicians have their say
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/ 3 November 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140506/shaik_icon_new.gif" align=left>An employee of the company that invented the scanner that reads barcodes was the first foreign witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial when he testified on Wednesday. John Dover, from the United Kingdom, said he met Shaik when he was based in South Africa for Symbol Technologies.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124909">Speaker bars questions on Zuma</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124839">’One more charge, no problem'</a>
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/ 3 November 2004
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday banned the import of two male sexual stimulant diet supplements sold on the internet, saying they contain an undeclared prescription drug ingredient. It said the products were found to contain prescription-strength quantities of sildenafil … the active drug ingredient in Viagra.”
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/ 3 November 2004
A top police officer said on Wednesday he stands by a document in which he listed Cape Town attorney Harry Snitcher as part of the Mafia’s organisation in the Western Cape. Captain Piet Viljoen was testifying in proceedings in which Italian prosecutors are questioning witnesses on the affairs of alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124881">Palazzolo linked to Staggie</a>
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/ 3 November 2004
Californians voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to become the first American state to fund controversial embryonic stem-cell research that was effectively banned by President George Bush, United States media reported. The emotionally and politically charged Proposition 71 passed by 64% against 36% opposition, CNN reported.
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An apparently mentally deranged man jumped into the lions’ pit at Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to ”talk” to the lions, but was rescued with only a minor bite on his foot. Chen Chung-ho (46) leapt into the pit at about 11am and walked toward a pair of sleeping lions, waving his jacket and talking to the big cats.
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Three days after Burundi’s interim Constitution came into effect, fighting among the major political parties has not broken out as many people had feared, and leaders who once advocated violence now agree to submit to the constitutional authority. A referendum on a draft Constitution has been delayed to November 26 this year.