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/ 29 October 2003
A Zimbabwean magistrate’s court on Wednesday placed four directors of the independent newspaper The Daily News on remand, quashing a defence bid to have the charges against them dropped. The four are facing charges of contempt of court and publishing the newspaper without a licence.
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/ 29 October 2003
Several officials employed by the Eastern Cape provincial administration were arrested at their offices on Wednesday in connection with fraud and corruption charges. Numerous documents were also taken as evidence in fraud and corruption investigations involving R4,4-million.
R1-million govt fraud bust in KZN
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/ 29 October 2003
African countries must integrate if they are to overcome poverty, facilitate development and access international markets, Eastern African leaders said at a regional summit in Nairobi on Wednesday. The leaders were taking part in a one-day meeting about the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
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/ 29 October 2003
In a candid account in his new book <i>Nothing But the Truth</i>, a leading member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, Professor Ben Turok, has provided a new account of the battle within the party to accept the current economic policy, called Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear).
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/ 29 October 2003
The employee benefits industry in South Africa has, for the first time, a unified voice to represent its interests to other role players, following a merger of its two main representative organisations. The merger comes at a time of unprecedented
legislative and regulatory activity in the employee benefits industry.
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/ 29 October 2003
The Afrikaner-based Freedom Front Plus (FF+), which has three members of the South African National Assembly, has handed a memorandum to the office of President Thabo Mbeki protesting at plans to provide continue racial quotas for state learnership programmes that fall under the Department of Labour.
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/ 29 October 2003
The crocodile playing Loch Ness monster in the Hennops River, west of Pretoria, might have been kidnapped, or else it was an escapee, an expert said on Wednesday. He believes Charlie, as the croc has been named, escaped from a crocodile farm or was removed from his natural environment as a baby crocodile.
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/ 29 October 2003
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Tony Yengeni are two surprise omissions from the Gauteng African National Congress’s provincial and national election list. ”We don’t know ourselves why they are not there,” ANC provincial secretary David Makhura said in reply to several questions on Madikizela-Mandela and Yengeni.
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/ 29 October 2003
Two American soldiers were killed when their Abrams battle tank was damaged by resistance fighters, resulting in the number of US soldiers killed in combat since major fighting ended topping the wartime total. In a separate attack, seven Ukrainian troops were wounded in the first ambush of a multinational unit in Baghdad.
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/ 29 October 2003
The Airports Company of South Africa on Wednesday said the South African Police Service on Wednesday morning arrested 36 striking members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) at Cape Town International airport. The Satawu strike is the first strike action at the company in five years.