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/ 4 February 2004
South African official opposition leader Tony Leon has suggested that President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech should signal a return to the "rainbow nation" philosophy. Mbeki is to open Parliament on Friday with the annual State of the Nation speech.
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/ 4 February 2004
A third term of office for President Thabo Mbeki has never been posed within the African National Congress, ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe asserted on Wednesday. He was responding to a letter to Mbeki sent by Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, seeking clarity on the matter.
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/ 4 February 2004
Dogs bark, caravans pass on. Opposition parties yap at the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s live television coverage of the African National Congress’s annual conference; newspapers take the corporation to task. But the national broadcaster moves on, leaving the fuss behind as if it were already history.
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/ 4 February 2004
Not everybody who is HIV-positive will get anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) from the state, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday. Speaking at the East London city hall, Tshabalala-Msimang said patients with a CD4 cell count below 200 will be the focus of the initial stages of the planned roll-out of ARVs.
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/ 4 February 2004
Fresh from five more wins in the Democratic presidential race, United States Senator John Kerry fired off a fierce attack on President George Bush on Tuesday, accusing him of misleading Americans over the Iraq war. Kerry is the frontrunner in the race to take on Bush for the White House in November.
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/ 4 February 2004
South African commodities group Tongaat Hulett (advised on Wednesday that the impact of valuation adjustments will result in a headline loss for the year. The application of the exchange rate at December 31 2003 will result in a translation loss of R80-million for the year relating to offshore cash holdings.
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/ 4 February 2004
The key aspect of black economic empowerment (BEE) is that it should never destroy value for the parties involved, says the recently appointed chairperson of BHP Billiton, Dr Vincent Maphai. BHP Billiton is the world’s largest diversified resources group and employs 35 000 people.
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/ 4 February 2004
The closely watched trial of Martha Stewart, the American businesswoman, was set to reach a pivotal point on Tuesday afternoon with the testimony of the government’s key witness. Douglas Faneuil was smuggled into court in the morning out of sight of the extensive media presence.
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/ 4 February 2004
The disgraced founder of Pakistan’s nuclear programme has informed investigators that he supplied rogue states with nuclear technology with the full knowledge of the country’s ruling military elite, including President Pervez Musharraf, a friend of the nuclear scientist was reported as saying on Tuesday.
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/ 4 February 2004
South African cellphone users have been being encouraged to turn their phones off on Wednesday for 24 hours in a national protest against cellular network operators. An anonymous chain e-mail currently in circulation asks users to not support cellular networks in a protest against what it calls ”rate increases and poor service”.