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/ 10 November 2003
Tampering with South Africa’s public holidays would amount to a betrayal of those who died for freedom, the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Monday. Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi last week indicated the country might soon have multi-purpose public holidays.
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/ 10 November 2003
Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, shot dead on Monday while on her way to court to give testimony against an alleged South Africa-Israeli mafia member, apparently said only last week she feared for her life. This was at the jurisdiction hearing of a diamond dealer accused of battering to death her estranged husband.
Jo’burg socialite killed
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/ 10 November 2003
Retailers can expect an inflation-beating 9% increase in Christmas sales to R50,2-billion this year, but for many this will come too late as liquidations are set to continue at current record levels until the first quarter of 2004, says Credit Guarantee senior economist Luke Doig.
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/ 10 November 2003
The European Union has postponed until December a vote on a request to import genetically-modified foodstuffs, which would end a five-year moratorium on such products, the European Commission said on Monday.
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/ 10 November 2003
Burma’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is refusing to accept freedom from house arrest until other detainees are released, according to Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, a UN human rights envoy.
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/ 10 November 2003
The Iraqi governing council, set up by the US as a step towards self-rule, has proved be so ineffective and shambolic that Washington is beginning to consider alternatives, it was reported yesterday.
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/ 10 November 2003
The rand was still trading below the R7 per dollar level in late afternoon trade on Monday, capitalising on the euro’s recovery against the dollar after a six-week worst level against the United States unit on Friday. The rand frequently takes its cue from the euro, gaining or losing in tandem against the dollar.
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/ 10 November 2003
Conservation bodies have strongly criticised plans to mine heavy metals and build a toll road along part of the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast, calling for a rethink before government gives the go-ahead. The World Wildlife Fund said projects ”pose an inherent threat to the region’s natural environment and its people”.
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/ 10 November 2003
A trio of top doctors have called on the government to set up an alcohol injury fund, bankrolled by taxes on booze, for victims of alcohol-related injury. They say the fund could also be used for trauma equipment and to finance substance abuse treatment centres.
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/ 10 November 2003
Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, a close friend of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and wife of deceased Israeli diamond dealer Shai Avissar, was shot dead on Monday while on her way to give testimony in the Johannesburg High Court, police said.