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/ 25 November 2003
Take the M2 east in Johannesburg and down the Fu Jin off-ramp near what used to be Doornfontein. For the area as we knew it is no more — the Ellis Park shopping centre behind the Johannesburg sports stadium has been rechristened China City. A wave of Chinese entrepreneurs in eastern Johannesburg form one of South Africa’s new social melting pots.
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/ 25 November 2003
Former intelligence commander Mo Shaik concluded his testimony before the Hefer commission on Monday in dramatic fashion. His eyes brimming with tears, Shaik said: ”If I have brought the country into disrepute, then I apologise.”
Mo Shaik’s warning
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/ 25 November 2003
A former African National Congress intelligence operative appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday in connection with an alleged plot to oust or kill President Thabo Mbeki. The charge sheet against Uranin Vladimir Solomon listed an allegation of conspiracy or incitement in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act.
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/ 25 November 2003
Adding his voice to the chorus of economists and business people calling for more intervention by the South African Reserve Bank, Brait economist Colen Garrow has said that the bank should absorb more dollars to boost its reserves. Progress on the net open foreign currency position for October will be unveiled on Friday.
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/ 25 November 2003
The National Union of Mineworkers and the FGTB, a Belgian construction workers’ union, have joined hands to form a partnership against HIV/Aids in the construction sector. Spokesperson Moferefere Lekorotsoane said the project aims to run over three years, beginning in 2003 and ending in 2005.
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/ 25 November 2003
South African information technology company Mustek announced on Tuesday that it is to introduce a black economic empowerment shareholder. Mustek has entered into an agreement with Safika Holdings and Mduduzi Edward Gama. The transaction will take place over a five-year period.
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/ 25 November 2003
The Commonwealth hasn’t done badly on human rights — on paper that is. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Abuja will seek to transfer at least some of those rights on to the street where they are needed.
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/ 25 November 2003
Remember all those jokes about Italian tanks in WWII having four reverse gears and one forward? Well, the Germans have never shown signs of being unduly timid, so the new Mercedes-Benz 7G-Tronic gearbox with its two reverse gears to go with the seven forward does seem a little extreme.
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/ 25 November 2003
On the dusty veranda of an abandoned house, where bats career through rooms which long ago lost their doors and window frames to looters, two ceasefire monitors are boiling water on a Primus stove. Yet not long ago they were outright enemies.
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/ 25 November 2003
John Allen Muhammad is facing execution for his role in last October’s sniper killings around Washington, after a jury voted to sentence the Gulf war veteran to death for both murder and terrorism.