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/ 17 February 2004
The 2004/5 Budget to be presented on February 18 will not be an "election" budget, in that it will provide goodies to voters, but it will nevertheless be expansionary, Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt told a media briefing late last week.
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/ 17 February 2004
Manuel was urged last week by a top economist to take "the big bang" with the relaxation of foreign exchange controls when he presents the country’s national Budget on Wednesday February 18.
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/ 17 February 2004
In the dying days of apartheid, FW de Klerk called his health minister, Rina Venter, and proposed the abolition of apartheid in state hospitals. During her subsequent investigations, Venter made a startling discovery: no laws specifically segregated hospitals. Doctors and hospital administrators had voluntarily enforced apartheid.
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/ 17 February 2004
"I am a businessman, I was raised as one and will die one. I have no political ambitions." Thebe Mabanga quizzes Bheki Sibiya, the boss of newly-formed Business Unity South Africa (Busa), on the role of big business and the potential threats to unity.
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/ 17 February 2004
Three years ago John Assimwe knew almost nothing about Africa’s insect life. Like most Ugandans, he was more preoccupied with the tall task of making a living despite the country’s crushing poverty and sparse employment opportunities.
After being unemployed for two years, he discovered that selling rare insects was a means of putting food on the table.
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/ 17 February 2004
Ernie Els admitted on Monday that he would love to support the Sunshine Tour and play a number of the local events again. Els is in South Africa for his first site inspection of the Gardener Ross Golf and Country Estate to be built in Centurion. He is contributing to the design of the golf course.
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/ 17 February 2004
The controversial ”reveal all” Kamp Staaldraad breakfast planned for a top Sandton hotel next week has been ”cancelled”, the event sponsors announced on Tuesday. This came amid uncertainty on whether proceeds from the function were to be donated to the Chris Burger/Petro Jackson fund for disabled rugby players.
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/ 17 February 2004
India’s first cricket tour of Pakistan since 1989 will generate a record £11-million in television and advertising revenues following intense bidding by some of India’s biggest businesses for the right to sponsor the series.
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/ 17 February 2004
Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died of a heart attack and was also found to have brain and lung damage, according to initial reports from an autopsy carried out here on Monday. ”We can’t rule out any cause of death,” Professor Giuseppe Fortuni told reporters.
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/ 17 February 2004
An ailing Graeme Smith anchored a fighting South African recovery in the second one-day international against New Zealand on Tuesday, as the tourists turned a cautious start into a prolific onslaught to post 253 for eight.