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/ 15 January 2004
The African National Congress in Gauteng said on Thursday it will take its election campaign to white areas to ensure it increases its support. The provincial party’s head of elections, Paul Mashatile, spoke confidently about the province’s achievement since 1994, saying: ”Gauteng is a better place to live in now.”
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/ 15 January 2004
Kibera slum, near the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is at a considerable distance from the Indian city of Mumbai, where the World Social Forum is scheduled to begin in just two days. Nonetheless, the 700Â 000 inhabitants of this slum, said to be Africa’s largest, will provide one of the summit’s talking points when it gets under way.
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/ 15 January 2004
In spite of volatile markets, South Africa’s unit trust industry showed strong growth in 2003, with net inflows doubling to a record R38,9-billion, according to data from the Association of Collective Investments. Local unit trust assets rose by R50,5-billion over the year.
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/ 15 January 2004
The latest available figures on research and development in South Africa show that expenditure is slightly up, but it has not reached the government’s target of 1% of Gross Domestic Product, according to South Africa’s science and technology department.
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/ 15 January 2004
Donors have pledged â,¬810-million ($1,03-billion) to fund the reconstruction of Burundi over three years, the Belgian minister for cooperation and development, Marc Verwilghen, announced on Thursday at the end of the fourth Forum of Partners for Development in Burundi.
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/ 15 January 2004
The Grand Seminaire de Montreal, a Catholic seminary, will this year begin requiring all men who apply to study to become priests to take an HIV test.
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/ 15 January 2004
Listed health and beauty retailer New Clicks Holdings has reported an 11% rise in its sales for the four months from September 1 to December 31 2003, compared with the year-earlier period. The New Clicks group includes the store brands Clicks, Discom, Musica, CD Wherehouse and The Body Shop.
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/ 15 January 2004
Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba was fired in an unusual fashion this week soon after being suspended for seven days — telephonically. There is now definitely no hope of South Africa winning the Nations Cup, firstly due to the ill-preparedness of the team physically and mentally. Only time will tell now how badly this soccer saga affected the players.
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/ 15 January 2004
The bird flu ravaging several east Asian countries — and which has been blamed for the deaths of at least three Vietnamese people — could precipitate a more serious global health crisis than Sars if it spreads by human contact, the World Health Organisation warned on Wednesday.
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/ 15 January 2004
The Aboriginal woman whose life inspired the acclaimed film Rabbit Proof Fence about the so-called ”stolen generations” of indigenous Australians has died at the age of 87. Molly Kelly died in her sleep on Tuesday in the Western Australia town of Jigalong.