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/ 13 October 2003
Monday blues failed to dampen spirits on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE), with the all-share index up for the fourth straight day on the back of a slightly weaker rand and a strong performance by heavyweight dual-listed stocks on positive offshore markets.
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/ 13 October 2003
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo has met exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to warn him not to interfere in his homeland’s fragile peace process. Last month the United Nations’s chief respresentative on Liberia, Jacques Klein, said that Taylor had been telephoning his successor, Moses Blah.
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/ 13 October 2003
South Africa needs to urgently address issues such as black economic empowerment and land reform as well as invest in education to avoid going the way of Zimbabwe, said Mail & Guardian CEO Trevor Ncube on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2003
What could be better than the joint holiday, an arrangement where the responsibility of child care is spread between families, where there is on-tap companionship for your children and babysitting duties can be shared with other parents? A word of caution, many a heavenly plan has turned into the holiday from hell. Let’s look at the pros and cons of shared holidays.
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/ 13 October 2003
Flamboyant US lawyer Ed Fagan is expected to file a new -billion lawsuit on Monday in a New York court against at least five companies accused of defrauding South African workers during apartheid. A class action suit was expected to be filed against the companies which included giant SA finance group Alexander Forbes.
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/ 13 October 2003
Police in Zimbabwe on Monday on charged the spokesperson of the country’s main opposition party with trying to overthrow President Robert Mugabe’s government. Paul Themba Nyathi is accused of being part of a group of opposition officials who "wanted to overthrow the constitutional government and coerce the president to step down".
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/ 13 October 2003
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal on Monday dismissed the Kagiso Consortium’s application for an urgent interdict to restrain the Tiso Consortium from implementing a series of transactions to purchase shares in New Africa Investments Limited (Nail).
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/ 13 October 2003
Sales at South Africa’s 2003 Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild auction were 12% lower than 2002’s record levels, reflecting weaker demand from foreign buyers due to rand strength, generally weaker local and foreign economic conditions and a fall-off in top-end tourism, according to the organisers of the annual event.
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/ 13 October 2003
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism and South African Tourism would like to respond to the recent Going Places opinion piece by Sharon van Wyk. The article began by questioning what Tourism Month had achieved.
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/ 13 October 2003
A long line of taxis is a visitor’s first welcome to Soweto as you pass Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital. A seemingly endless suburb lies ahead creating an impression of a cultural wasteland. But that impression could not be further from the truth. The township boasts a rich cultural and political history that goes back to the very roots of South Africa’s democracy.