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Mathew Gondo was made homeless at the height of Zimbabwe’s chaotic land-reform programme, which began in 2000. He was a foreman at Tate’s Farm, about 120km north of the capital, Harare. His employer fled following the violent farm invasions by pro-government war veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle.
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/ 9 February 2004
Gold stocks glistered on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) at midday on Monday, helped by a higher bullion price and a strong performance by their ADRs in New York on Friday night. Overall, the market was firmer, but very quiet. At Resources rallied 1,55% in morning trade, with the gold mining index soaring 2,51%.
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/ 9 February 2004
McCarthy Call-a-Car, the largest independent online used vehicle retailer in South Africa and a subsidiary of listed motor retailer McCarthy, sold 6 662 units in 2003 — representing more than R660-million worth in sales. McCarthy said used vehicles accounted for 83% of the total sales, while new vehicle sales increased to 17% in 2003.
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/ 9 February 2004
Hundreds of members of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement resigned at the weekend in protest at the lack of political reform, corruption and the leadership’s failure to challenge the Israeli occupation. The resignations are the latest evidence of a deepening crisis within the organisation that dominates Palestinian politics.
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/ 9 February 2004
South Africa’s exports of wine and alcoholic fruit beverages (including flavoured grape liquor and that for vinegar and industrial purposes) grew 11,2% y/y in volume terms in 2003, according to preliminary statistics from South Africa Wine Information Systems (Sawis), the industry’s official data collection group.
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/ 9 February 2004
A top rebel commander was shot dead outside a nightclub in northern Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday, the rebels’ military chief said. It was not known who carried out the killing of Staff Sergeant Adama Coulibaly in Korhogo, or how many gunmen were involved. But five of the commander’s bodyguards were detained as suspects
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Sasol chief executive Pieter Cox on Monday inaugurated the world’s largest oxygen production plant at the group’s Secunda site near Johannesburg in South Africa. The new, R668-million plant is in addition to 14 other existing oxygen production plants, making synthetic fuels group Sasol the world’s largest single producer and consumer of oxygen.
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/ 9 February 2004
John Kerry’s three-state United States weekend rout, capped by his coast to victory in Maine, pushed him closer to the Democratic nomination and left his rivals scrambling to find a way to stop the front-runner. Kerry’s winning streak is beginning to demoralise his opponents.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30861">Anxious Bush on charm offensive</a>
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Western donors have pledged -million to finance the reconstruction of Liberia over the next two years — considerably more than the United Nations and World Bank had asked for. However, they have virtually ignored a separate UN appeal for -million of immediate humanitarian assistance.
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What does the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) do when township dwellers refuse to vote in a hostel because of past animosities with its residents? Or when high-profile leaders of a political party are seen registering voters on behalf of the IEC? These are some of the complex issues the commission has already had to face as the election race slowly takes off.