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/ 28 January 2004
One of South Africa’s largest medical aid administrators, Medscheme, has welcomed proposals for restructuring the public service’s medical-aid schemes. A proposed new public-service medical-aid scheme would bring a welcome one million new medical-aid patients into the industry.
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/ 28 January 2004
The Boeremag High Court treason trial was once again delayed on Thursday to enable defence counsel to study possible further evidence. Police spy Johan Smit revealed, during cross-examination, that police had secretly taped some of the Boeremag meetings at which a coup plot was allegedly discussed.
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/ 28 January 2004
The worst drought in more than a decade is sweeping through Southern Africa, destroying crops, driving up food prices and leaving millions hungry — even as foreign assistance dries up. The World Food Programme is still short -million to feed 6,5-million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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/ 28 January 2004
A study by South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council has confirmed earlier findings regarding the under reporting of emigration by highly skilled South Africans to major consuming countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
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/ 28 January 2004
Disgruntled parents and their children gathered in front of the Western Cape provincial legislature on Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction with provincial education minister Andre Gaum and his ”disregard for pupils on the Cape Flats”. Allegedly no classes have taken place this year at Norwood Central Primary School in Elsies River.
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/ 28 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was in negative territory in noon trade on Wednesday, as a stronger rand dragged down heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. Selling filtered through to the rest of the market and decliners outnumbered advancers by about five to two.
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/ 28 January 2004
South African producer prices for all commodities fell by 1,8% in the 12 months to the end of December from a 2,5% decline for the 12 months to the end of November, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. ""The figure is just about spot-on with what we expected," said an economist.
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/ 28 January 2004
Liberia’s hopes for peace were rekindled last October when a power-sharing transitional government took office with a mandate to run the country until elections in 2005. But, with just over a 100 days having passed since the inauguration, has the new government lived up to expectations?
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/ 28 January 2004
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Wednesday called on the country’s employers to open their doors to young prospective employees for learnership programmes. If one employer can take one learner for training, about 200Â 000 young people will be in learnership programmes, the minister said.
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/ 28 January 2004
An e-mail worm that looks like a normal error message but actually contains a malicious program continued to snarl computers around the world on Tuesday. MessageLabs, which scans e-mail for viruses, said 1 in every 12 messages contained the worm, called Mydoom or Novarg.