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/ 2 February 2004
The Hlobane waterfall near Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal is flowing again after more than 50 years. The waterfall stopped flowing decades ago due to mining activity at the underground Hlobane colliery. Now a mining subsidiary has developed a new technique — a world first — to fix the mining damage.
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/ 2 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was mixed at midday on Monday after a quiet morning on which the local bourse lacked major drivers. "It has been very quiet — one of the quietest days we have seen for quite a while with the exception of Christmas and New Year," a dealer said.
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/ 2 February 2004
Two additional people died from bird flu, bringing Asia’s death toll to 12 on Monday, while China said it suspected the virus has reached poultry in one of its most remote corners and United Nations officials warned that the outbreak was far from over.
First ‘human to human’ cases feared
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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
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 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
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”.