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/ 12 February 2004
Kumba Resources is missing out on the rapid expansion of demand for iron ore from commodity behemoth China due to South Africa’s rail and port infrastructure not keeping pace, says Kumba CEO Dr Con Fauconnier. As a result, Kumba’s competitors that can more easily raise output are increasing their share of iron ore exports to China.
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/ 12 February 2004
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Wednesday criticised The Star’s HIV/Aids reporting and pleaded for responsible journalism. ”That was a dangerous headline,” said TAC treasurer Mark Heywood, ”It will cause fear”. The headline in question, on the Johannesburg newspaper’s front page, was: ”Aids drug risk for mothers”.
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/ 12 February 2004
In a windswept but joyous ceremony, former South African president Nelson Mandela on Wednesday handed over symbolic keys to the first two homeowners to resettle in Cape Town’s District Six. Ebrahim Murat (87) and Dan Ndzabela (82) will be the first of an estimated 4 000 homeowners to resettle in the area over the next 36 months.
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/ 12 February 2004
Old, tacky clothes lie all over the floor. A stench hangs in the air. The first and second floors of this downtown Jo’burg building are crammed with shacks. The people who live here are homeless; some make a living guiding cars into parking places. This is Chancellor House, which once housed the offices of South Africa’s most famous legal team — Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo.
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/ 12 February 2004
In the past two years, 800 policemen in Nigeria have been dismissed for extortion and another 65 have found themselves in court. But, the arrests and dismissals do not appear to be making a real dent in the levels of police corruption in Lagos, as far as extortion of money from motorists is concerned.
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/ 12 February 2004
Cuban police inspected a house and several car repair shops on Wednesday in a neighbourhood where residents recently converted two 1950s cars into boats that refugees used in attempts to reach the United States.
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/ 12 February 2004
The complaint by opposition parties that South Africa is fast becoming a one-party state is stubbornly not going away, and is set to dominate the forthcoming election.
In this view, the African National Congress is becoming too powerful and is likely to subvert South Africa’s democracy, running the country into the ground in the process. Some people — tongue in cheek — claim this has already happened.
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/ 12 February 2004
The presidential inauguration is expected to cost in the region of R60-million, which is in line with the costs of previous inaugurations, the South African government divulged on Thursday. The budget for the 10 years of democracy celebrations would be R80-million over two years.
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/ 12 February 2004
Much of South Africa’s commercial law is years out of date and this has severe implications for auditors, accountants, directors and investors, says South African Institute of Chartered Accountants executive president Ignatius Sehoole.
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/ 12 February 2004
He is one of Germany’s hottest young novelists. And, until last week, few in Germany’s literary world doubted that Thor Kunkel’s latest novel, Final Stage, was going to be anything but a rip-roaring success. The novel had all the right ingredients — sex, a lot of sex, Nazis, more Nazis, and a spectacular romantic finale.