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/ 8 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was in positive territory in noon trade on Wednesday, with a weaker rand fuelling a rally in heavyweight resources stocks. However, volumes were light as the market adopted a cautious approach ahead of key testimony by United States Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan later in the day.
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/ 8 September 2004
A lawyer for alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plotter Mark Thatcher confirmed on Wednesday that a subpoena had been issued for his client’s appearance in the Wynberg Regional Court. ”We still have to examine the subpoena,” said Alan Bruce-Brand. Bruce-Brand said the subpoena provided for Thatcher to go for questioning at the court on September 22.
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/ 8 September 2004
United States President George Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry clashed on Tuesday over the US economy and the Iraq war as the US military death toll reached 1Â 000. Bush seized on Kerry’s latest criticism of the US-led war in Iraq as a new sign of the Massachusetts senator’s indecision, which Republicans have sought to highlight in the campaign for the November 2 vote.
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/ 8 September 2004
Bald men who feel self-conscious about their looks can now take comfort in a survey indicating that their hair loss can mean they will earn a healthier income. The survey published in Hong Kong on Wednesday found that the more money a man earns, the more likely he is to be losing his hair.
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/ 8 September 2004
The government’s wage offer to public service employees is in line with a commitment to improve the quality of life for all South Africans, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Tuesday. Public sector unions decided on Monday to embark on industrial action following their rejection of government’s six percent wage increase offer.
Matric preparations threatened by strike
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/ 8 September 2004
South African police have arrested a local priest for conducting at least 600 fake marriages between foreigners seeking South African nationality and unsuspecting local women, a police statement said on Tuesday. Hendrik Uys Jansen (39) who was also a registered marriage officer, conducted ”at least 600 fake marriages” since 2003, at his home in Pretoria, the statement said.
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/ 8 September 2004
The United States army is preparing to abandon a contract with Halliburton, the company formerly run by the vice-president, Dick Cheney, which has been investigated for allegedly overcharging it. The contract to provide housing, food and other services to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially worth -billion, is expected to be broken into smaller parts and opened to competitive bids in the next few months.
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/ 8 September 2004
Dramatic images of life inside the gym during the hostage-taking at middle school one in Beslan were shown on Tuesday night by the Russian television station NTV for the first time. The images show a room packed with about 1 000 hostages, including men, women and children. Barely a square metre of the gym appears to be empty and the hostages are seen fanning themselves in the heat.
Thousands protest outside Kremlin
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/ 8 September 2004
Poor rural migrants have become like characters in the folk-tales they no longer tell their children: fleeing the countryside to escape the evil spirits of want and poverty, they find the old enemies lying in wait for them in the urban slums that are their destination. Global poverty is in flight from rural areas and rushing headlong to the cities.
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/ 8 September 2004
Lesbianism in South Africa is a bit like a crazy and eccentric old auntie we tolerate because of the equality clause, and whom we keep at a safe distance, in case people think queerness runs in the family. The broader political issues about what it means to be a woman who loves women — in theory and in sexual practice — never seem to get a look in because of the feverish curiosity around what lesbians do in bed.