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/ 27 January 2004
South Africa’s Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson has pleaded for an end to all ”comment and speculation” on Judge Siraj Desai. In a statement issued on Tuesday, he also said the question whether Desai should sit as a judge before the rape case against him was finalised was not at issue.
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/ 27 January 2004
The official opposition Democratic Alliance has reacted to what it has called newspaper speculation about the selection of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary and provincial legislature elections. The candidate list was meant to be kept under wraps until changes were made by party leader Tony Leon.
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/ 27 January 2004
And so the slaughter of elephants begins. Six adult members of a herd were gunned down in Mpumalanga last weekend and their eight babies were kidnapped for sale to exhibition parks. This recent cull and capture operation has caused alarm among animal welfare groups.
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/ 27 January 2004
Partially privatised telecommunications utility Telkom has been slammed for continued anti-competitive behaviour after it lodged an appeal against a Competition Tribunal order compelling it to hand over copies of disputed client agreements to a rival operator.
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/ 27 January 2004
With their clocks set to follow the slightly longer Martian day, scientists back on Earth analysing images from two Nasa probes now on the Red Planet keep a tight schedule that includes several daily meetings.
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/ 27 January 2004
South Africa’s CPIX inflation (headline inflation excluding mortgage costs) stood at 4% for the year to December, down from 4,1% in November. This is in line with market expectations. CPIX is the inflation measure used by the South African Reserve Bank for purposes of inflation targeting.
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/ 27 January 2004
King Mswati has expressed concern that Swaziland’s international image was being tarnished by "cowardly" citizens who expose the country’s problems. Mswati made the remark at the weekend while delivering his annual speech on the state of the kingdom at Engabezweni royal village, 25km east of the capital, Mbabane.
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/ 27 January 2004
Four German nationals pleaded guilty to illegally collecting rare stag beetles in the Western Cape when they appeared in the Paarl Regional Court on Monday. The beetles, of the Colophon genus, are reportedly worth thousands of rands on international markets.
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/ 27 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was grilled during his trial on Monday on why his party hired a Canadian political consultancy to help promote its image when it had already engaged a British firm to do so. The state queried why it engaged Dickens and Madison when BMSG of Britain was already doing work for it.
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/ 27 January 2004
The Democratic Alliance has submitted parliamentary questions to the government in a bid to establish whether South Africa has supplied riot control equipment to the Haitian government. This followed reports that truncheons with the words ‘Made in South Africa’ written on them are being used to control anti-government protesters in Haiti.