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/ 15 September 2003
Minister Trade and Industry Alec Erwin has said South Africa is concerned and disappointed that trade ministers from across the world were unable to reach a "definite and concrete" outcome at the World Trade Organisation talks in Cancun.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20463">Developing countries flex muscles</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
In an initial deal worth R12-million, clothing retailer Edgars has teamed up with local secure e-payments company Prism Holdings to roll out one of the world’s first mass implementations of sophisticated programmable point-of-sale technology into Edgars stores across South Africa.
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/ 15 September 2003
The black economic empowerment strategy should not be allowed to fail in its mission of reversing the skewed ownership of economic power in South Africa. Results that are anything short of change are too ghastly to contemplate. Black-owned companies need to become active participants in BEE.
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/ 15 September 2003
The European Union committed a ”big mistake” by blacklisting Hamas as a terrorist organisation, but the move won’t affect the group’s resistance operations, a senior leader of the Palestinian militant group has said.
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/ 15 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will not be invited to attend this year’s Commonwealth summit in Nigeria, despite efforts by some African countries, led by South African President Thabo Mbeki, to convince the Commonwealth to relax its sanctions on Zimbabwe.
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/ 15 September 2003
The South Korean government is set to release more than -billion in emergency funds on Monday as the toll of dead and missing from a devastating weekend typhoon rose to 115. Typhoon Maemi, with winds of up to 215kph, is the most powerful storm on record to hit South Korea.
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/ 15 September 2003
Policewomen in central China’s Henan province are tossing aside their uniforms and donning high heels, miniskirts and low-cut blouses in hopes of luring and nabbing rapists. They are part of a special squad aimed at curbing an increase in sex-related crimes.
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/ 15 September 2003
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has added its voice to the chorus of condemnation in Southern Africa regarding the closing of the Daily News, Zimbabwe’s only independent newspaper. Sanef has called for the decision to be immediately reversed.
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A new and expanding alliance of developing countries on Sunday left a doomed World Trade Organisation conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found muscles. Led by heavyweights Brazil, India and China, the ”Group of 20 plus” also includes South Africa.
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/ 15 September 2003
Johannesburg-based newspaper <i>City Press</i> has published another exclusive story on Scorpions boss Bulelani Ngcuka’s alleged ties with the former apartheid regime. The newspaper claimed to have a police document revealing that Ngcuka had been granted a passport while in detention.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20455">Ngcuka is no spy, say Scorpions</a>