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/ 2 February 2004
South Africa’s Coega industrial development zone and neighbouring deepwater port of Ngqura outside Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape have firm funding commitments totalling about R7,4-billion from the public sector for their ongoing development.
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/ 2 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s debt-stricken power supply utility faces a crisis as South African and Mozambican utilities demand up-front payment for supplies, the state press said Sunday. Last week, South Africa’s Eskom switched off electricity to the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) for two days because of non-payment.
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/ 2 February 2004
The South African province of the North West was the worst offender in spending or alternatively keeping track of its capital spending of South Africa’s nine provinces. In the first nine months of the fiscal year, the North West housing department spent only 2,6% of its capital expenditure allocation of R390-million.
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/ 2 February 2004
Intel is launching the next generation of its flagship Pentium 4 microprocessor on Monday, adding more memory to the chip and other features that should allow it to reach record speeds of up to 4 gigahertz by the end of the year.
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/ 2 February 2004
The World Health Organisation said on Sunday that two Vietnamese sisters who died from bird flu might have contracted the disease from their brother, making it the first ”human to human” transmission of the virus in this outbreak. The announcement marks yet another worrying development in the spread of the disease.
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/ 2 February 2004
A inquiry has begun in the Democratic Republic of Congo to establish the causes of a fatal accident in which a boat carrying more than 500 people sank after a fire broke out on board, a senior official said on Sunday. About 200 people are still missing following the tragedy, which happened last Monday.
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/ 2 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki should declare war on crime and announce the return of the death penalty when he delivers his state of the nation address this week, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Sunday. Mbeki should commit government to ”concrete actions that will improve the lives of our people”.
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/ 2 February 2004
Over 300 000 legal abortions have been performed since the practice was legalised seven years ago, the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) said at an anti-abortion prayer vigil in Braamfontein on Sunday. The vigil was part of countrywide protests against South Africa’s abortion laws.
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/ 2 February 2004
Tree-lined avenues walled with six-foot stockades and electric fencing in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs hide lush green gardens. What many are not aware of is that a network of Malawian green fingers tends the city’s greenbelt. Samuel Jere is one such carer of the rolling lawns of the City of Gold.
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/ 2 February 2004
Two of the four South Africans, who were earlier on Sunday reported missing following a stampede in Mecca, were found in a safe condition at a local police station, the South African mission in Saudi Arabia said.