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There has been encouraging response to a call for expressions of interest in developing a new ship repair facility at Cape Town, says port planner Billy Cilliers. The facility, to be sited at the eastern end of the harbour, is expected to reaffirm the port’s position as the leading ship repair centre in Southern Africa.
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/ 11 November 2003
A top UN official on Tuesday described the 17-year-old rebel war in northern Uganda as the worst forgotten humanitarian crisis on earth. ”The conflict in northern Uganda is the biggest forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today,” said Jan Egeland, UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs.
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/ 11 November 2003
SA President Thabo Mbeki says his government has taken a cue from the European Union’s model to inject funds to poor regions and social groups. Mbeki said that at its lekgotla in July the Cabinet had focused on the "critically important issue of the struggle against poverty and had observed that South Africa was characterised by two parallel economies".
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/ 11 November 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party national council secretary Sue Felgate died after a long battle with cancer at her home in Ulundi on Tuesday morning. She was the party’s first white member.
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/ 11 November 2003
Over 13-million South African adults have no bank accounts and a comprehensive survey of households suggested on Monday that this was ”a vast opportunity to bank the unbanked”.
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/ 11 November 2003
The Bloemfontein High Court on Tuesday dismissed with costs an application by journalist Ranjeni Munusamy to protect her from testifying before the Hefer commission. Judge president JP Malherbe found that Hefer’s ruling that she must testify before other witnesses are called did not violate her constitutional rights.
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/ 11 November 2003
Police now suspect foul play following what appeared to be insecticide poisoning at two Medscheme buildings in Florida, Johannesburg on Friday of last week and again on Monday. About 80 employees had to be taken to hospital on Monday after many of them suffered symptoms of nausea and vomiting.
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/ 11 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was looking soggy at midday, with the continued strength in the rand and damp European equities weighing on the bourse. At noon the all-share index was 1,21% weaker, the all-share industrial index was 0,94% lower and the financial index slipped 0,44%.
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/ 11 November 2003
The litter-strewn streets of Africa’s largest and arguably dirtiest city woke up to a new broom on Monday, as Lagos’s latest uniformed enforcement squad launched a mammoth clean-up mission.
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/ 11 November 2003
The Anglican Church of Kenya has barred all its 28 dioceses from having any involvement with Gene Robinson, the new bishop of New Hampshire in the United States — and the first openly gay clergyman.