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/ 29 October 2004
A ship transporting 61 200 tonnes of wheat arrived at the Eritrean port of Massawa on the Red Sea on Friday to help about 600 000 people affected by drought, the United Nations World Food Programme said in a statement. The wheat will assist two-thirds of Eritrea’s population unable to meet daily food needs.
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/ 29 October 2004
Chey are charting now with the funky summer anthem Lola’s Theme, and you can see London house duo the Shapeshifters live at the Tang Sour Apple/5fm Ibiza Street Party on Saturday October 30. The party takes place at Johannesburg’s ever-more-popular Carfax in Newtown. DJ and producer Ton TB is the other visitor from abroad. Also […]
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/ 29 October 2004
European Union leaders on Friday signed a first-ever Constitution for the expanding bloc, in a landmark ceremony on the spot in Rome where its forerunner was founded nearly half a century ago. The Constitution, agreed in June after two years of haggling, aims to streamline EU institutions and prevent decision-making gridlock.
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/ 29 October 2004
Batswana will vote on Saturday in the eighth general election since their country ceased to be a British protectorate in 1966. Opposition parties are fighting not to win — they have conceded that is not possible — but to unify a fragmented opposition that they hope will strengthen over the life of the next Parliament.
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/ 29 October 2004
Monday could be blue for ”high risk” banking clients who have failed to verify their identities with their banks under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act. Banks have until Sunday to re-identify non-resident account holders, trusts and partnerships — or freeze their accounts until they present themselves with proof of their addresses.
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/ 29 October 2004
Local business and labour have welcomed the almost doubling of production for the East London-built new C-Class Mercedes Benz. DaimlerChrysler chairperson Christoph Kopke said this week that the East London plant would be producing around 80 000 of the new C-Class from 2007 — up from the 45 000 a year for the current W203 model.
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/ 29 October 2004
Iraq’s prime minister will send a team to rebel-held Fallujah to discuss clearing the city of insurgents and heavy weapons in a last-ditch bid to avert a full-scale military assault, officials said on Friday. The comments came as about 1 000 United States and Iraqi troops, who have encircled the city, said they are prepared for action.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=124567">Study: 100 000 Iraqi civilians dead</a>
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/ 29 October 2004
Anti-corruption investigators in the Eastern Cape are probing evidence that the mansion of provincial agriculture minister Max Mamase is being financed by the citrus farmer who landed a controversial R16-million empowerment deal from his department.
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/ 29 October 2004
The African National Congress’s lack of policy clarity and direction on how to approach the Zimbabwean crisis has placed it in an awkward position with its alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi said on Thursday. The uling party has failed to back its union ally after expulsion, vitriolic attack by Zimbabwe government.
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/ 29 October 2004
The pebble bed modular reactor, Eskom’s controversial nuclear electricity generation programme, has received a R500-million rescue package from the government after failing to attract a strategic foreign partner. According to the Department of Trade and Industry vote in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, the amount was an unforeseen and unavoidable expenditure.