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/ 23 February 2004
You suspect that a former colleague who recently joined a competing company has taken your firm’s computerised sales data records as well as its highly prized client list with him. What do you do? Is there anything that you can do? Today, such records won’t leave your system without a trace.
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/ 23 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was almost 1% in the red at midday on Monday, despite a weaker rand. Dealers said the market was experiencing some weakness with the gold price retreating below the $400 an ounce level, and that it was a pity that the market had not been able to capitalise on the slightly weaker currency.
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/ 23 February 2004
Two people were wounded when Malawi riot police fired live rounds at a crowd to stop a rally by opposition parties in Blantyre on Sunday, an opposition spokesperson said.
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/ 23 February 2004
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been unofficially on the campaign trail for months, announced on Sunday he will stand for a second term in an election to be held in April. Bouteflika said he was seeking five more years in office to continue his programme of ”restoring peace and promoting national reconciliation”.
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/ 23 February 2004
South African Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana on Monday expressed his disappointment that a two-month-old strike by baggage handlers involving the South African Transport Workers Union (Satawu) and Equity Aviation has still not been resolved.
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/ 23 February 2004
Ralph Nader, the radical US activist whose 2000 presidential bid was accused by many Democrats of costing them the election and putting George Bush in the White House, declared on Sunday that he would stand again this year.
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/ 23 February 2004
An Australian helicopter pilot was killed and a British security officer seriously injured in southern Afghanistan on Sunday after their team, working for an American construction company, was attacked by a gunman.
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/ 23 February 2004
United Kingdom- and South African-listed financial services group Old Mutual plc CEO Jim Sutcliffe has reiterated the group’s commitment to retain its 52% stake in South African banking subsidiary Nedcor, saying that the stake is not for sale and that Old Mutual is even happy to further increase its shareholding in the group.
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/ 23 February 2004
An attempt by two South African microlight pilots to circumnavigate the globe nearly ended in disaster on Friday when they had to make an emergency landing in Thailand, a spokesperson said on Monday. Dominique le Roux said she received word of the near disaster late on Sunday night.