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/ 17 October 2003
Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana has cleared Deputy President Jacob Zuma of allegations he breached the executive ethics code by not properly declaring his interests and liabilities in the register of financial interests. However, Mushwana did not investigate Zuma’s relationship with his financial adviser, Durban businessman Schabir Shaik.
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/ 17 October 2003
The United Nations has appealed to journalists to stop trying to incite war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. It said it is concerned about the increase in media hate comments on the impasse in the peace process between the two Horn of Africa states, which it termed as "currently in stasis".
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/ 17 October 2003
Both the Guinness Book of Records and Interpol say South Africa is the country with the highest rate of rapes, many of them against children, a conference in Cape Town heard on Friday, the final day of the 25th anniversary conference of the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Southern Africa.
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/ 17 October 2003
Eighty percent of the poorest people in South Africa should have effective access to financial services by 2008, according to the Financial Sector Charter, which was released on Friday. These include savings and transaction services, says the charter, which was handed to Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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/ 17 October 2003
At least three people were killed and 26 injured when an earthquake measuring 6,1 on the Richter scale struck southwestern China’s Yunnan province on Thursday — an area that was struck by an earthquake measuring 6,2 on the Richter scale in July. More than 12 000 homes collapsed following Thursday’s quake.
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/ 17 October 2003
The New Labour Party has expressed its satisfaction that its leader, Peter Marais, has not been implicated in any wrongdoing over the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development. On Thursday Italian multimillionaire Count Riccardo Agusta pleaded guilty to corruption charges involving politicians in the Western Cape government.
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/ 17 October 2003
Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminium maker, is asking federal authorities to stop alleged dumping of aluminium by a South African company. Pittsburgh-based Alcoa petitioned the Commerce Department and the US International Trade Commission seeking intervention to stop alleged dumping of 6 000 series aluminium alloy rolled plate by Hulett Aluminum Ltd.
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/ 17 October 2003
The ANC will not abandon national reconciliation, and ”politically motivated lies” will not divide the organisation, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Writing in the African National Congress’ online publication, ANC Today, he questioned the motivation behind The Citizen newspaper’s recent scathing attack on former Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadre Robert McBride.
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/ 17 October 2003
Many fishermen angling from the shore along the Transkei coast are paying lip service to regulations governing the number and size of the fish they may catch, and most are ignorant about closed seasons for certain species.Richard Davies