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/ 11 December 2003
A man who tried to install a key-logging device on to a Standard Internet Banking computer has been fined R20 000, or 12 months imprisonment, in the Johannesburg Commercial Crime Court.
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/ 11 December 2003
Telkom’s T-Zone WiFi hotspot pilot launched in September with Southern Sun Hotels has now been extended to hotels and conference centres in major South African cities, as the company ramps up its drive to introduce a commercial WiFi service early next year.
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/ 11 December 2003
The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, and the advocate acting for former transport minister Mac Maharaj and former African National Congress intelligence head Mo Shaik locked horns once again at the Hefer Commission of Inquiry on Thursday morning.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=28471">Zuma’s affidavit sees the light of day</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=28391">Ngcuka faces tough questions</a>
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/ 11 December 2003
Zimbabwe’s Parliament has ratified President Robert Mugabe’s decision to pull the Southern African country out of the Commonwealth, state media reported on Thursday. Fifty-nine lawmakers voted in favour of the walk-out, while 41 voted against, after a protracted and heated five-hour debate.
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/ 11 December 2003
Cape Town T-shirt company Laugh It Off was back in court on Thursday, fighting a demand that it put up security for its coming Supreme Court of Appeal hearing. Laugh It Off is challenging a Cape High Court ruling earlier this year that one of its satirical T-shirts infringed the Black Label trademark of beer giant SABMiller.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was flat in noon trade on Thursday in a market that was quiet ahead of the decision on interest rates by the South African Reserve Bank monetary policy committee due just after 3pm. Gold stocks dominated the market’s downside
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/ 11 December 2003
Sun International, one of South Africa’s largest listed hotel and gaming groups, is planning a significant expansion of its Fish River Sun resort in the Eastern Cape, including the sale of some of the property by Pam Golding Properties, in a project that will represent sizeable investment for the region.
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/ 11 December 2003
An intensely private South African writer, scientists whose research has helped develop magnetic resonance imaging and researchers who uncovered secrets of human cells were honoured on Wednesday at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony. Ten laureates received the prestigious awards in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics.
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/ 11 December 2003
The Supreme Court in Israel on Wednesday ordered the younger son of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to hand over personal documents that police say will prove he accepted an illegal ,5-million loan from a South African businessman. Police have obtained depositions from their South African counterparts about the loan.
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/ 11 December 2003
The dry spell or drought that the South African maize belt has experienced for two weeks is set to extend to four weeks with very little rain forecast in the two weeks from now until Christmas. "The chances of rainfall in the next two weeks are very, very slim," a South African Weather Service forecaster said on Thursday.