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/ 2 December 2003
Think of Phalaborwa. Think hot. And dry. But not unpleasant. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised by the bushveld town, in spite of five hours on the road from Pretoria. Developments have led to a whole new ball game at the Hans Merensky Estate, writes Sharon van Wyk.
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/ 2 December 2003
A major international human rights group on Tuesday accused the Nigerian government, the host of this week’s Commonwealth summit, of using violence and intimidation to silence its critics. Human Rights Watch accused the 54-nation global body of hypocrisy in honouring the Nigerian regime while excluding President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 2 December 2003
Nearly 100 000 people turned out on the streets of New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Monday for the premiere of Return of the King, the final instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has been credited with putting the country on the film-making map.
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/ 2 December 2003
British industry yesterday welcomed the latest signals that the White House is inching closer to repealing controversial steel tariffs which have inflamed transatlantic trade ties.
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/ 2 December 2003
Iraqi officials in Samarra on Monday challenged United States military accounts of a bloody battle on Sunday, accusing US soldiers of spraying fire at random on the city streets, killing several civilians.
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/ 2 December 2003
ICT market analysts BMI-TechKnowledge have announced the publication of their South African Internet Services report, which has highlighted a stable and mature internet market. The report says service providers’ success will be determined by the value and service offering to the end users.
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/ 2 December 2003
I’ve been reading with interest in several newspapers some disturbing allegations about a service called Advanced Hair Studio — and my interest isn’t a result of the fact that my own hairline has been doing a strategic retreat for the past few years.
No, the stories caught my eye because I was a fascinated viewer of the company’s television advertisements.
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/ 2 December 2003
Kickbacks, often in the form of all-expenses-paid overseas trips, have a long and endemic history in the media planning business. Recently the Advertising Media Forum (AMF), the body representing the interests of local media planning and buying agencies, forcefully restated its intention to correct this history.
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/ 2 December 2003
At the recent Pica Magazine Awards, if you listened carefully, you could hear the hollow thud of standards dropping to the floor. Set up 34 years ago by the forebears of the Magazine Publishers Association of South Africa (MPASA) to acknowledge and promote excellence in local publishing, the annual event has become a "homage to mediocrity".
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/ 2 December 2003
Only 29% of the South African workforce is formally employed compared to 69% a decade ago, while the informal sector has grown from 14% to 21%, a Human Sciences Research Council study has found. It is no longer correct to view the informal sector as a temporary or transitional stage between joblessness and formal work.