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/ 13 November 2003
Eskom on Thursday announced a continuation of its relationship with Arivia.kom with the signing of a service-level agreement contract worth more than R1-billion to address Eskom’s information technology requirements to the end of 2005. Eskom supplies more than 50% of the electricity consumed in Africa.
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/ 13 November 2003
The two pilots who died after ejecting from their Impala jet on Wednesday have been named as Paul Andrew Martin (28), and Gert Willem Diederick Duvenhage (22). Both held the rank of lieutenant, the SA National Defence Forcesaid in a statement in Pretoria.
Fighter jet crashes into highway
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/ 13 November 2003
Fiery SA politician Patricia de Lille, leader of the Independent Democrats, has launched an SMS-based service to keep in contact with her voters. De Lille, a former Pan Africanist Congress MP who defected to form the new party earlier this year, launched the service on Thursday.
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/ 13 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was looking sunny at midday on Thursday, with the market higher across the board despite the firmer tone in the rand. At midday the all-share index was 1,14% stronger, the all-share industrial index added 1,02% and the resources index gained 1,8%.
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/ 13 November 2003
Online advertising and sponsorship spend increased by 17% during the third quarter of 2003, to a total of over R20-million for the quarter, the South African Online Publishers Association (OPA) has announced.
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/ 13 November 2003
After raping teenaged Marie, three uniformed soldiers left her in a forest in Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, where sexual violence is widespread. ”With the war, it was impossible to get to a hospital,” recalled the 17-year-old, between sobs brought on by the memory.
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/ 13 November 2003
At a ceremony on November 15, members of the Giba community in White River, Mpumalanga, will become owners of Burgers Hall farm — land they were displaced from half a century ago. Handing over Burgers Hall is the first step in the resolution of a land claim that will end up returning 1645 ha of land (which cost R29 232 738) to about 500 households.
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/ 13 November 2003
The termination of several value-destroying contracts by the South African Post Office (Sapo) has contributed to the reduction of operational losses of post office, according to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
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/ 13 November 2003
Protests greeted a hard-hitting campaign by a British children’s charity on Wednesday as it published newspaper advertisements showing a cockroach crawling out of a new born baby’s mouth. The advertisements, published on full pages in some newspapers, drew scores of protests to the watchdog body, the Advertising Standards Authority.
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/ 13 November 2003
Microsoft launched a last gasp attempt to appease Europe’s regulatory authorities on Wednesday, wheeling out a crack team of lawyers and lobbyists to mollify the European commission.