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/ 10 March 2004

‘Mercenary plane’: It’s all a ‘misunderstanding’

The detention of an aircraft, and its crew and passengers, in Harare, was all part of a "dreadful misunderstanding," the plane’s owner, Logo Logistics, said on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32441">Mercenaries ‘came to collect guns'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=32435">Zim plane definitely not South African</a>

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/ 10 March 2004

Violence, poverty focus of election campaign

”Campaigning for South Africa’s general elections, to be held next month, has moved into top gear — with politicians scrambling for an endorsement from the country’s 20,7-million registered voters. ”The parties are now in full-swing campaign mood,” says Khabele Matlosa of the Johannesburg-based Electoral Institute of Southern Africa.

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/ 10 March 2004

Mondi seeks control of Portuguese paper firm

South African paper and packaging firm Mondi will seek the control of Portuguese paper giant Portucel if it wins a privatisation sell-off, the head of Mondi said on Tuesday. ”We want to have control so we can carry out our strategy for the firm,” Mondi chief executive officer David Hathorn told Portuguese news agency Lusa.

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/ 10 March 2004

Right tool, wrong use

Last week’s announcement by Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni that the Net Open Forward Position (NOFP), or apartheid dollar overdraft, has been closed is more than just a feather in our fiscal manager’s cap at the National Treasury and Reserve Bank.