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/ 5 February 2004
World number-one rough diamond miner De Beers sees a third consecutive year of earnings growth in 2004 on the back of good global growth, De Beers MD Gary Ralfe said on Thursday. During 2004 De Beers sees a 7% increase in its diamond output, after increasing output by 9% in 2003 from 2002.
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/ 5 February 2004
Although South Africa has scaled up social spending over the past decade, considerable additional funding is needed to improve delivery to the country’s rural poor, a new study has found. One of the key challenges is beefing up service delivery in rural communities such as providing water and electricity.
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/ 5 February 2004
Sierra Leone this week completed a five-year programme to disarm and rehabilitate more than 70Â 000 combatants who took part in the country’s brutal civil war. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah officially dissolved the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration at a ceremony on Tuesday.
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/ 5 February 2004
The remains of Karabo Gwala, the three-year-old boy who had disappeared down a sewerage hole in Soweto while playing on Monday, were found on Thursday morning. A family representative identified the body by clothing after it had been found at the Olifantsvlei waste treatment plant.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30671">Jo’burg council in trouble</a>
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/ 5 February 2004
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has condemned the government’s threat to fire doctors who take part in a protest march after the opening of Parliament on Friday. Holomisa said the government was displaying a complete disregard for the doctors’ democratic rights.
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/ 5 February 2004
While the search for three-year-old Karabo Gwala who fell into an open sewerage manhole in Soweto on Monday continues, preliminary investigations by the Department of Labour have established that the company conducting maintenance work before the accident violated health and safety regulations.
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/ 5 February 2004
TelkomInternet, a division of partially privatised South African telecommunications giant Telkom, has quarantined more than 500 000 virus-infected e-mail messages mostly infected with the MyDoom virus, the telecommunications company announced on Thursday.
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/ 5 February 2004
Two river ferries collided head-on in southern Bangladesh early on Thursday and survivors said at least 30 people drowned. About 150 people were missing after the accident in Meghna River in Barisal district, 120km south of national capital Dhaka, according to the survivors.
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/ 5 February 2004
”In the name of the African renaissance, trust, but not too much,” announces Irvin Khoza’s cellphone voicemail message. The message aptly describes the Orlando Pirates and Premier Soccer League (PSL) chairperson’s involvement in the game after his return from self-imposed football exile to take the helm of Pirates in 1989.
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/ 5 February 2004
Why would two highly respected men — one a professor of medicine, the other a government inspector — travel halfway round the world to dig up plants in a foreign country and risk spending three years in jail? The answer is that they were in the grip of ”orchidelirium”, an obsession with orchids.