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/ 20 November 2003
South African technology company Sentech on Thursday announced plans to roll out its wireless broadband services to consumers and businesses. Users will not need a physical connection to use the internet. Wireless broadband internet access becomes commercially available from the end of January 2004.
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/ 20 November 2003
The Department of Labour on Thursday stated that the Unemployment Insurance Amendment Act has been formally signed into law by South African President Thabo Mbeki. The amendments are not aimed at introducing fundamental changes to the Act, but are mainly aimed at refining some of the provisions.
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/ 20 November 2003
The South African rand was steady against major currencies, but well off Wednesday’s best levels, in early trade on Thursday after correcting overnight. On Wednesday morning, the rand traded below R6,55 per dollar for the first time since early April 2000 after rallying overnight on the back of a dollar sell-off.
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/ 20 November 2003
Zimbabwe’s main labour movement has called a two-day strike from Friday to demand the release of union leaders and rights activists arrested this week during protests against the government’s economic policies.
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/ 20 November 2003
The US president, George Bush, on Wednesday took up the challenge of anti-war protesters by mounting a defence of the use of force in Iraq, saying it was necessary to prevent the United Nations suffering the same fate as the ineffectual League of Nations.
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/ 20 November 2003
The architects of a groundbreaking peace initiative, denounced by Ariel Sharon as akin to treason, are distributing copies of the document to every Israeli home this week in an attempt to exploit eroding public confidence in the government and to force negotiations with the Palestinians.
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/ 20 November 2003
Michael Jackson faced multiple charges of child molestation on Wednesday in the wake of a raid on his ranch in California. The singer has been accused of ”lewd and lascivious” behaviour with a child under the age of 14.
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/ 20 November 2003
With Mozambique’s poverty in mind, it is surprising to learn that it is already a step ahead of South Africa when it comes to HIV/Aids treatment. Mozambicans have been able to get free anti-retroviral drugs at two sites since the beginning of the year.
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/ 20 November 2003
All is calm, inside the bubble. Outside there may be baying demonstrators, clashing with dense lines of fluorescent-yellow police. Outside, a few streets away, there may sit a House of Commons bristling with anger at a war so many millions did not want. Jonathan Freedland takes a peek inside the two worlds US President George W Bush inhabited during his state visit to the UK this week.