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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
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
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.
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/ 23 February 2004
Nedcor’s chairperson, former finance minister Chris Liebenberg, is to retire at the company’s annual general meeting in May after more than 50 years’ service, the company said on Monday. Nedcor’s headline earnings for the year to December 31 2003 declined from R2,5-billion in 2002 to R55-million.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=31633">Old Mutual: Nedcor stake not for sale</a>
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/ 23 February 2004
For almost five years the government has been on a major drive to streamline the services it delivers to the public through the intelligent use of computers and IT.
The latest development was the launch of the South African government services website last week. What the site currently lacks in content, aesthetic value and navigational adeptness it makes up for in concept.
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/ 23 February 2004
An African National Congress activist was shot dead near Umkhomazi, south of Durban, on Friday, according to a statement from the party. The ANC said it believed two out of five attackers who were party to the murder of 25-year-old Sifiso Msomi, were local Inkatha Freedom Party activists.