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/ 6 November 2003
South African President Thabo Mbeki will host his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday. The Brazilian president will be on a working visit to Pretoria for bilateral political and economic discussions, the government news agency BuaNews reported on Thursday.
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/ 6 November 2003
The South African Chamber of Business Business Confidence Index continued to increase to another highest level of 116,4 in October after the high of 112,3 reached in September and the 110,9 in August.
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/ 6 November 2003
South African Department of Labour on Wednesday said over one thousand contravention notices and almost 170 prohibition orders were issued by inspectors during last week’s blitz inspections of the construction industry, which ran from October 27 to 31.
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/ 6 November 2003
Liberia has developed a programme to disarm some 40 000 combatants whose future seems uncertain after 14 years of a brutal war. Analysts say the move seeks to help Liberia to put the war — that forced virtually all of the country’s 3,5-million people to flee for their lives — behind it and build a lasting peace.
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/ 6 November 2003
The State wants the Constitutional Court ”to bend the rules” in order to secure a conviction of Dr Wouter Basson, his counsel said on Wednesday. The Pretoria High Court had found Basson, a chemical and biological warfare expert of the apartheid government, not guilty on all charges against him, Jaap Cilliers, SC, said.
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/ 6 November 2003
Controversial US attorney Ed Fagan has been dumped by his South African clients on the eve of a crucial ruling by a New York court on whether apartheid victims will be able to sue large companies, the claimants’ instructing attorney said this week.
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/ 6 November 2003
South Africa was very nice to five white men this week. And for good reason: they came from world soccer group Fifa. The group was fêted and fanfared during their seven-day tour of South African cities. On their agenda was time with Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Archbishop Tutu, Credo Mutwa, Prof Phillip Tobias and King Goodwill Zwelithini.
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/ 6 November 2003
The FBI and Microsoft combined forces yesterday against the shadowy teenage world of the computer hacker by offering 000 bounties for information on the creators of MSBlast and SoBig viruses.
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/ 6 November 2003
The most profilic serial killer in American history yesterday confessed to 48 murders in order to save himself from execution. Relatives of some of the victims wept in the courtroom as the confession by Gary Ridgway (54) was read aloud by prosecutors. ”I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight,” he said.
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/ 6 November 2003
United States officials have agreed ”in principle” to give Iraqis responsibility for a new security force that would tackle the growing insurgency, the head of Iraq’s governing council said on Wednesday. The concession by the US authorities comes at a time when deadly attacks are becoming more frequent.