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/ 22 October 2003
Delinquent passengers are running amok on the country’s trains, creating a headache for Metrorail who announced this week that it had spent R177-million this year on security alone. For next year it has budgeted R221-million for security expenses.
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/ 22 October 2003
Child rights groups are increasingly alarmed at attempts by Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya to fast-track the Children’s Bill ahead of next year’s election. The director of Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, Carol Bower, said the minister seemed unaware that the Bill was nothing like the version prepared by the SA Law Reform Commission.
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/ 22 October 2003
Alleged Boeremag leader Adriaan van Wyk complained to the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday that he was being ”starved” in jail and denied the medication he needed. Van Wyk (38) launched a new bid for bail. Previous attempts have failed.
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/ 22 October 2003
Kim Yong seemed to have it all. He was a trusted lieutenant colonel in a North Korean police agency and worked for a company that exported fish to Japan. Then one day, North Korean authorities learned that Kim had been living for decades under an assumed name. Kim was immediately sent to a detention facility.
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/ 22 October 2003
Sony Corporation is studying ways to let consumers use their cellphones to buy groceries at convenience stores, pick up the tab for lunch and pay train fares. The electronics giant already has its own smart card payment service called Edy — an acronym for ”euro, dollar, yen” — which is accepted by about 2 700 stores in Japan.
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/ 22 October 2003
South Africa will host the next plenary session of the Kimberley Process, the worldwide body that regulates the trade and certification of rough diamonds, for the second time at the end of October. The session will be attended by representatives from more than 70 countries.
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/ 22 October 2003
The imminent closure of the tax amnesty coupled with the recent strength in the rand presents an almost unprecedented opportunity for investors to increase their offshore exposures, says Sasfin (SFN) managing director Alan Greenstein.
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/ 22 October 2003
The Director General of the Department of Labour, Advocate Rams Ramashia, on Tuesday lashed out at critics of the government’s skills development programmes, saying the critics have failed to offer alternatives that would change the lives of South Africans for the better.
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/ 22 October 2003
The job to be vacated at the end of the month by South African National Treasury director general Maria Ramos is being advertised with a package of R738 993 a year. The advertisements in national newspapers stated that one of the requirements for the job is a post-graduate degree (master’s) in economics, public finance and financial management.
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/ 22 October 2003
India, Brazil and South Africa are strong candidates to become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council as all three developing countries have stable democracies, the Brazilian Foreign Minister said on Wednesday.