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South African house prices slowed somewhat to a nominal increase of 19% year-on-year (y/y) in December 2003 from 19,6% y/y in November, according to South African commercial bank Absa’s monthly house price index (HPI) released on Monday. The recent highest nominal y/y increase was 20,9% in May 2003.
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/ 12 January 2004
Although hopes were running high in some quarters on Monday that the 26-day-old strike by airport baggage handlers might soon come to an end, it would appear there is still some way to go. This follows a high level meeting last week between the employer, Equity Aviation Services, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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/ 12 January 2004
The discovery of a Holstein with mad cow disease in the United States has producers and sellers of organic and natural beef changing their marketing tactics to make the case — sometimes starkly — that their meat is free of the disease. To be certified as organic, beef must come from cattle fed vegetarian diets.
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/ 12 January 2004
South Africa’s largest opposition party, the Inkatha Freedom Party, will launch its national election campaign in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday January 18. The pro-free-enterprise party is expected to underscore the importance of fast-tracking privatisation of state-owned enterprises.
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/ 12 January 2004
Nato-led troops remained in the Bosnian Serb town of Pale for a third day on Monday, manning checkpoints as part of an operation to nab top war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, who is wanted for trial on genocide charges.
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/ 12 January 2004
Boxer Laila Ali cancelled, teen diva Ashanti cut short her set and rapper DMX had some harsh words for the crowd, but their young fans kept the party going amid teargas and horsewhips at Nigeria’s biggest ever Aids/HIV awareness gig.
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/ 12 January 2004
Iden Wetherell, editor of the <i>Zimbabwe Independent</i>, is expected to appear in court on Monday following his arrest on Saturday evening for apparently "insulting" President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 12 January 2004
One Gauteng newspaper put it best when its billboards read ”New Year in Hellbrow”. It was not a spelling mistake but a clever pun referring to the lawlessness that happens in the Johannesburg inner-city suburb of Hillbrow.
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/ 12 January 2004
Foreign currencies will be traded in Zimbabwe from Monday in a controlled auction system set up by the central bank in a bid to narrow extreme differences between the official and parallel rates. The auctions are aimed at bolstering foreign exchange inflows to the official market and eradicating the parallel market.
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/ 12 January 2004
Germany’s ambassador to Namibia expressed his country’s ”regret” on Sunday over the ruthless quelling of the Herero tribe uprising a century ago in which tens of thousands were slaughtered by German colonial troops.