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/ 26 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was a mixed bag just before midday on Monday, in trade that was fairly quiet ahead of key economic data releases due out later in the week. While gold stocks dragged on the downside, a weaker rand saw heavyweight dual- listed stocks keep the bourse in the black overall.
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/ 26 January 2004
South African Department of Labour inspectors continued their surprise visits to companies over the weekend in an effort to make sure that the country’s companies adhere to labour-law legislation. The inspectors slapped two East London companies with nine contravention notices and two prohibitions.
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/ 26 January 2004
Bafana Bafana players have gone and done it again — just as the Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba saga came to a close last week. The players in Tunisia started a mini revolt, demanding that their contracts be revisited before their kick-off against Benin on Tuesday. It is not the first time the payment issue has come up for discussion at a crucial tournament.
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/ 26 January 2004
Cash-strapped homeowners whose properties are repossessed and sold by their banks are likely to get a better deal in future, thanks to recent interventions by the Ombudsman for Banking Services, Advocate Neville Melville, who became deeply concerned by the particulars of a complaint received by his office.
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/ 26 January 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday criticised the early closure of voter registration stations in the Durban area despite an assurance by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to the contrary. The ANC said it was ”outraged” at the way IEC staff members conducted themselves at the voting stations.
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/ 26 January 2004
Judge Siraj Desai thanked his supporters on his arrival at Cape Town International Airport on Sunday following allegations of raping a South African woman in India. He thanked everybody, including his lawyer, for the support they had given him, saying his wife had been ”a pillar of strength”.
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/ 26 January 2004
While large parts of southern Africa battle with drought, Namibians, especially those in the north-east of the country, are bracing themselves for floods. Jennifer Moetie, chief meteorological technician at the Windhoek Weather Bureau, said substantial downfalls have been recorded in recent months, even though the rainy season has yet to start properly.
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/ 26 January 2004
Governments that employ e-government will not eliminate jobs but will provide their citizens with a more efficient and transparent administration, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Sunday.
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/ 26 January 2004
Mining magnate Brett Kebble believed that by ”giving financial assistance for the development of democracy, he was performing a public duty and would continue to do so throughout his career”. Kebble was on Sunday responding to media enquiries regarding the financial support he had given to the African National Congress.
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/ 26 January 2004
"We live in one world. Not in the first, second, third, fifth or sixth world," Michael Sommer, head of the Confederation of German Trade Unions, said in South Africa last week. Sommer is a member of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s official delegation, currently touring Africa with the leader.