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/ 10 February 2004
All week Siham Hattab had been planning to stand in the latest council elections, but at the last minute she had nagging doubts. ”No, no. I’ve changed my mind,” she told her astonished colleagues at the council meeting. They were taken aback. After all, everyone thinks of Ms Hattab (33) as a natural leader.
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/ 10 February 2004
Britain is puzzled by the South Africa government’s attitude towards Zimbabwe, the chairperson of the British Foreign Affairs committee, Donald Anderson, said in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Anderson and his committee are in South Africa on a fact-finding mission for the British Parliament.
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/ 10 February 2004
More than 90 people were injured in a bus crash on the N8 highway between Bloemfontein and Botshabelo in the southern Free State on Tuesday morning, police said. The bus was transporting about 130 adults and school children towards Bloemfontein when it developed ”mechanical problems”.
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/ 10 February 2004
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has urged South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to "stop scratching around the vegetable patch" and go and see HIV/Aids patients in hospitals. De Lille was referring to the minister’s suggestions that garlic and African potatoes were important in fighting disease.
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In 1994 there were 200 polling stations in more than 60 countries, with an estimated half a million potential voters, each with the right to choose their South African region of origin. Whereas all parties contested the expat vote in the UK in 1994, this time it appears that mainly the Democratic Alliance is making a play.
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/ 10 February 2004
International music provider Kazaa asked the Australian Federal Court on Tuesday to delay hearing alleged copyright breaches against it until a similar case in the United States is finished. The hearing follows raids last week by five record labels on a dozen sites across the country to collect evidence against Kazaa, the world’s largest file sharing network.
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/ 10 February 2004
Australia’s consumer watchdog on Tuesday launched a three-day crackdown aimed at tackling bogus websites designed to swindle internet users, as part of an international campaign to highlight and shut down such scams.
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/ 10 February 2004
Continuing rand strength is likely to discourage foreign investment in South African mining as investors look for cheaper alternative destinations, putting the future development of local mining at risk, industry participants were warned on Tuesday.
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/ 10 February 2004
South Africa’s Labour Department carried out 10 610 inspections on the domestic worker sector during August last year, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. "Domestic employers proved to be the friendliest sector to inspect. This is attributed to advocacy work that preceded the inspections," he said.
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/ 10 February 2004
A Limpopo farmer and three accomplices were to appear in the Hoedspruit Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after allegedly ”feeding” a ”troublesome” worker to a lion. The men were arrested on Monday at a game farm near Hoedspruit after police recovered the skull of 38-year-old Nelson Shisane’s skull and part of his legs.