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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
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.
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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
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
Cookies and tea with Graeme Smith, a hunt for Miss Daisy, a possible dagga-smuggling operation, a Darth Vader impression, cricket and croquet. What could it all mean? Read President Thabo Mbeki’s diary and find out.
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/ 26 September 2003
Armed robbery, not political and racial motives, principally lie behind farm attacks, says the long-awaited report of an independent committee of inquiry into the crime. The report also urges immediate government assistance for farmers
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/ 26 September 2003
National crime statistics, except for murder, have limited value in tracking trends. Station-level statistics are better indicators, Ted Leggett, senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), told the Mail & Guardian. But they are treated like ”the great national secret”.
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/ 26 September 2003
Corrupt African National Congress members who occupy senior positions in the government and the civil service have received a tongue-lashing from Cabinet ministers and senior leaders of the organisation.
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/ 26 September 2003
This year’s gay and lesbian pride parade, taking place on Saturday September 27, seems likely to be a rather low-key affair. Apart from a small film festival that began on September 18, there has been little publicity to promote the event. Information about the parade.
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/ 26 September 2003
Nine journalists from Zimbabwe’s only independent daily, shut down two weeks ago for operating illegally, were charged on Thursday for practising without licences. The nine were the first out of a list of 45 Daily News journalists whom police want to question over their association with the embattled daily.