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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.
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/ 29 October 2003
Some South African National Defence Force bases and their troops were identified in 2001 to help carry out a plan to overthrow the state, the Pretoria High Court heard in the Boeremag treason trial on Wednesday. Meetings to this end had taken place with the commanding officers of several commandos and generals.
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/ 29 October 2003
Twenty-six government officials, including two heads of districts from the KwaZulu-Natal agriculture department, have been arrested for fraud totalling R1,1-million, police said on Wednesday. The affected areas are Vryheid, Nongoma, Babanango, Empangeni and Eshowe.
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/ 29 October 2003
Former judge Joos Hefer has decided to subpoena the country’s intelligence agencies for information, his commission announced on Wednesday. Commission secretary Advocate John Bacon said the heads of the various agencies will be summonsed to testify before the commission.
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/ 29 October 2003
The strength on the global equities front filtered through to the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa on Wednesday, with the bourse firmly in the black at midday. Slight weakness in the currency was also lending support to rand-hedge
and resources counters.