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/ 23 January 2004
The European orbiter <i>Mars Express</i> has detected frozen water at Mars’s south pole, mission officials said in Germany on Friday. Water, in its liquid form, is one of the ingredients for nurturing and sustaining life, and Mars is considered to be the best bet for this outside Earth.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30016">US lander falls silent</a>
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/ 23 January 2004
Gauteng province has become the first province to switch on to Sentech’s broadband wireless (BBW) high-speed, no-limit internet access via regulated high-powered radio frequency, Sentech announced on Friday. Sentech launched its affordable BBW service, also known as MyWireless, in Gauteng on January 19.
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/ 23 January 2004
What is it about weather forecasting that makes it so pathetically inaccurate? Perhaps accuracy is too much to expect, but there’s no doubt something vaguely relating to expected weather conditions would be preferable to the great rash of blatant lies that forecasters regularly dish up.
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/ 23 January 2004
Demand for banking stocks and a weaker rand saw the JSE safely in the black just before noon on Friday after an active morning’s trade, which saw about R1,5-billion-worth of shares change hands. At 11.55am, the all-share index was up 0,62%. Industrials and financials were 0,34% and 0,46% firmer respectively.
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/ 23 January 2004
Speaking at a banquet in honour of visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, South African President Thabo Mbeki has toasted the role played by Germans in the building of the South African economy and the continuing role they are playing on the continent of Africa.
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/ 23 January 2004
The jury is out on whether the New National Party will be around in any significant form to celebrate its centenary in 2014. Next month the party will trek to Stellenbosch to kick off its election campaign. The 2004 poll will decide whether the NNP’s politics of consensus finds favour with voters.
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/ 23 January 2004
National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka declined to shake the hand of Mo Shaik at a toilet in Bloemfontein last year — but Ngcuka says he is now prepared to forgive all if they apologise. Ngcuka spoke this week in response to the release of the Hefer commission findings, which cleared him of allegations that he was a spy.
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/ 23 January 2004
As the countrywide strike of baggage handlers enters its sixth week, disturbing questions about the fallout of privatisation for workers have refocused union attitudes towards the sale of state assets. Unionists say the dispute between airport workers and their employer illustrates their point that deregulation and privatisation lead to retrenchments.
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/ 23 January 2004
An internal probe into the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the government body responsible for air safety, has uncovered a sorry tale of financial mismanagement, inefficiency and sheer management incompetence. The CAA, funded largely from the public purse, has been dogged by a series of scandals.
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/ 23 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s popular independent <i>Daily News</i> — a fierce critic of the government — hit the stands for a second day on Friday, four months after being forcibly shut down by authorities who have renewed moves to gag it again. Like the previous day, the daily was snapped up by curious readers.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30019">Zim govt seeks to gag Daily News</a>