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/ 3 November 2003
The start of the trial on genocide charges of four Rwandan former ministers was delayed on Monday because one of the accused’s lawyers was not present in the UN tribunal, the independent Hirondelle news agency reported.
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/ 3 November 2003
SA Transport and Allied Workers Union members were continuing with a strike on Monday while the Airports Company of SA and union representatives were in a meeting with the purpose of resolving the wage dispute.
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/ 3 November 2003
South African Wine Industry Trust (Sawit) chairperson Gavin Pieterse has pledged to have the first draft of a new black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for a historically disempowered wine industry ready for review in six months.
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/ 3 November 2003
The United Kingdom will do all in its power to ensure that no Zimbabwean starves during the period leading up to the establishment of a democratically accountable government in that country, the Minister For Africa at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chris Mullin, said on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2003
The Democratic Alliance and the Inkatha Freedom Party on Sunday urged South Africans to register next weekend for the 2004 general elections. Speaking at a rally for his party and the IFP in Soweto, DA leader Tony Leon blamed apathy for the fact that so many people have not registered, and would be unable to vote next year.
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/ 3 November 2003
Many foreign investors are currently adopting a "wait and see" attitude towards investing in South Africa, despite the country’s many positive factors and perceptions of it having a relatively moderate risk-reward payoff over five years, according to a newly released report on foreign investor perceptions of South Africa.
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/ 3 November 2003
The Soweto suburb of Meadowlands suffers more murders and twice as many burglaries as Johannesburg’s flatland, Hillbrow, research by the Institute of Security Studies has shown. Researcher Patrick Burton said that, overall, there was more violent crime in the Jo’burg inner city than in Meadowlands, but that if the trend continued the position would soon be reversed.
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/ 3 November 2003
The race is on. The gloves are off. The challenge for control of the South African National Assembly has definitely kicked in, if reports in the press are to be believed. Everybody (or a few enlightened somebodies — which is not much, considering we are a Third World and largely illiterate country) knows that there is going to be a serious national election in 2004.
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/ 3 November 2003
Desperately short of space for new housing and offices, the city that boasts one of the world’s most unspoiled skylines is considering lifting a 30-year-old ban on skyscrapers.
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/ 3 November 2003
Ra-ra skirts are back in fashion, the housing market is heading for a crash, and a Republican administration is blaming a powerful Asian economy for stealing American jobs. Welcome to the 1980s.