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/ 26 September 2003
Two powerful earthquakes, one of them measuring 8,0 on the Richter scale, rocked northern Japan on Friday, injuring about 480 people and forcing thousands more to evacuate their homes. The bigger quake was the strongest to hit Japan in almost nine years.
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/ 26 September 2003
Controversial legislation which provides the framework for next year’s general elections, but effectively disenfranchising ordinary South Africans temporarily abroad, was adopted by the National Assembly on Friday.
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/ 26 September 2003
Moroccan courts have sentenced two Islamic fundamentalists to death for murder and preparing terrorist acts, and passed heavy jail sentences on two fundamentalist preachers said to be the brains behind suicide attacks in May. Abdelouahab Rabii and Hamid Slimani were sentenced in Rabat late on Thursday for preparing acts of terrorism.
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/ 26 September 2003
By as early as next month, millions of people in the southern African region will face ”massive food shortages” owing to what could only be described as a ”funding crisis” in the World Food Programme (WFP), the agency warned on Friday. ”The situation is incredibly serious,” said James Morris, WFP executive director.
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/ 26 September 2003
The third and most devastating wave of the HIV/Aids pandemic is now ravaging Eastern and Southern Africa. So warns a United Nations report presented at the 13th International Conference on Aids and STIs (sexually transmitted infections) in Africa, held this week in Nairobi, Kenya.
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/ 26 September 2003
A report commissioned in the wake of ”vigilante” attacks at the University of Stellenbosch earlier this year has warned that it is a matter of urgency that campus culture be placed on a new footing. The report was compiled by a seven-member panel chaired by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert.
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/ 26 September 2003
A detailed analysis of the recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Cancun, Mexico, show the preferences offered by the developed world to select developing world countries such as Mauritius were the worm that brought about the failure of the talks, SA Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin told Parliament on Friday.
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/ 26 September 2003
Weaker gold stocks continued to weigh on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa in late-morning trade on Friday, countering the positive affect of a softer rand on the broader market. Volumes were very light, with just more than R500-million-worth of shares changing hands.
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/ 26 September 2003
Major South African trade unions have vowed to go on strike next week in protest against massive job losses in various sectors of the country’s economy. The strike threat comes in the week that Statistics South Africa announced the worsening level of unemployment in the country.
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/ 26 September 2003
High inflation expectations among producers and consumers are one of the key threats to the South African Reserve Bank’s inflation target, according to SARB Governor Tito Mboweni. He also said the bank will continue to buy US dollars in the market to build up the country’s foreign exchange reserves.