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Alleged coup financier Mark Thatcher will pay his bail by the end of the week, his lawyer said on Wednesday, but declined to comment on a report that his mother, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, is posting the money for her son. Thatcher is under house arrest at his Cape Town home.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=121438">Margaret Thatcher posts bail for Mark</a>
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/ 1 September 2004
Trade union Solidarity on Wednesday claimed that more than 30Â 000 activists and trade union members worldwide will be mustered this week against dual-listed telecommunication giant Telkom’s planned retrenchments. The London-based website <i>Labour Start</i> contains an exposition of the planned retrenchment of 4Â 181 Telkom workers.
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/ 1 September 2004
The Palestinian armed response was a long time coming. When the Hamas founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was killed in an Israeli rocket attack in Gaza in March, the organisation responsible for most of the suicide bombings in Israel vowed that it would ”open the gates of hell”.
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/ 1 September 2004
The media image of South African Airways (SAA) took an upward turn this weekend. Ironically, it was probably the extent of the downside of the airline’s reputation that provided the platform for the ascent. I came to this conclusion from an analysis of coverage this week, which I did on the request of SAA.
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/ 1 September 2004
The "official rate of interest" used by the tax authorities was cut by 50 basis points to 8,5% with immediate effect, the South African National Treasury said in a media statement on Wednesday. The cut followed the 50 basis-points reduction to 7,5% in the South African Reserve Bank’s repo rate, announced on August 12.
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/ 1 September 2004
South African information technology company Dimension Data (Didata) said on Wednesday that agreement has been reached with a black economic empowerment consortium on the transfer of a 25,01% interest in Dimension Data South Africa. The stake has been valued at R380-million.
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/ 1 September 2004
The African National Congress has snatched an overall majority in the 200-member Cape Town Unicity Council following the defections of 23 of the 32 New National Party councillors. Among the councillors to cross was Cape Town deputy mayor Gawa Samuels.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=121445">Freedom Front Plus scoops 10</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=121453">De Lille welcomes floor-crossers</a>
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/ 1 September 2004
Moscow was targeted by the third suicide bombing in a week on Tuesday night, when a woman blew herself up at the entrance to a busy metro station, killing 10 people and injuring 51, many of whom were in a critical condition, officials said. The explosion took place at about 8.05pm outside the Ryizhskaya metro station in north-eastern Moscow.
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An Islamist group on Tuesday released video footage showing 12 Nepalese workers dying in the worst mass killing of hostages since Sunni Islamist extremists embarked on a spree of kidnappings in April. News of the killings overshadowed international efforts to secure the release of two French journalists held by a separate Iraqi group of militants.
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At least 16 people were killed and almost 100 injured after Israel’s five-month period of relative peace was shattered on Tuesday with a double suicide bombing on two buses in the southern town of Beersheba. The bombings, which came 15 seconds apart and killed a three-year-old boy, 10 women and five men, were claimed by Hamas as a revenge attack for Israel’s assassination of its leaders Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi earlier this year.
Delayed attack likely to backfire