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/ 2 September 2004
Africa’s story should be told by African journalists, not by foreigners who have a tendency to set their own agendas, Zimbabwe’s Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said on Wednesday. He said the current situation ”where the world relied on foreign news agencies for stories about the region was not conducive as there was the risk of distortion”.
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/ 2 September 2004
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that was discovered last week in Zambia’s Southern Province has spread to various parts of the country, threatening beef exports, an official said on Thursday. The disease, which usually kills cattle, is spreading quickly in the Southern African country because of a lack of vaccines.
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/ 2 September 2004
A 25-year-old construction worker was killed when the roof of Centurion Mall in Pretoria collapsed on Wednesday night, Pretoria police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Captain Piletji Sebola said the man’s body was discovered in the rubble at about 10pm on Wednesday and retrieved at 1.30am.
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/ 2 September 2004
Twenty dams will be built over the next 20 years at the cost of R21-billion, Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in Cape Town on Wednesday. Addressing the media at a post-Cabinet briefing, Sonjica said the Cabinet had approved South Africa’s first national water resource strategy, which would ensure that ”we use our nation’s limited water resources to achieve a better life for all South Africans”.
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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.