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/ 4 February 2004
The fastest growth for IT outsourcing services will be in the government, financial markets, services, and discrete manufacturing, the latest forecast on information technology (IT) outsourcing indicates. Automated Reasoning MD Charles Anderson said the market opportunity for IT outsourcing services can vary largely.
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/ 4 February 2004
The new leadership of the beleaguered Ethiopia Free Press Journalists’ Association on Wednesday vowed to boost freedom of expression and to fight repression and harassment. Its vice-president, Getachew Simie, also insisted that the newly elected leadership was free from government interference.
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/ 4 February 2004
Two more fatalities in Vietnam lifted the death toll from the bird flu outbreak to 15 on Wednesday as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the disease is spreading so quickly that no part of Asia was safe. The warning came as a leading United States medical expert said China probably already has human cases of bird flu.
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/ 4 February 2004
The Church in Africa is concerned about United States pressure on African countries to introduce anti-terror legislation on pretext of fighting terrorism. The church is cautioning African governments against enacting such laws blindly, which it warns infringe on human rights.
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/ 4 February 2004
Embattled High Court Judge Siraj Desai was given special leave by Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Penuell Maduna on Tuesday. Desai was arrested on January 19 after Aids activist Salome Isaacs accused him of raping her in a Mumbai hotel room, but Isaacs later withdrew the charges.
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/ 4 February 2004
New regulations to compel the replacement of non-functioning emergency exits on South African buses and taxis will still take an indeterminate time to come into effect, it emerged on Tuesday. In the meantime millions of public transport passengers run the risk of meeting the same fate as the 51 Saulspoort bus disaster victims.
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/ 4 February 2004
South African stocks presented a mixed picture in noon trade on Wednesday, with the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) lacking major drivers and clear trends. At 12.05pm, the all-share index was down a marginal 0,1%. Financials and banks were 0,38% and 0,8% weaker respectively.
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/ 4 February 2004
South African official opposition leader Tony Leon has suggested that President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech should signal a return to the "rainbow nation" philosophy. Mbeki is to open Parliament on Friday with the annual State of the Nation speech.
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/ 4 February 2004
A third term of office for President Thabo Mbeki has never been posed within the African National Congress, ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe asserted on Wednesday. He was responding to a letter to Mbeki sent by Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, seeking clarity on the matter.
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/ 4 February 2004
Dogs bark, caravans pass on. Opposition parties yap at the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s live television coverage of the African National Congress’s annual conference; newspapers take the corporation to task. But the national broadcaster moves on, leaving the fuss behind as if it were already history.