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/ 22 September 2003
South Africa will need to create 3,5-million new jobs and lift some six million people out of poverty if it wants to reverse the tide of unemployment, according to Rand Merchant Bank Group (RMH) chief economist JP Landman.
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/ 22 September 2003
At their meetings in Dubai, the Group of Seven and the International Monetary Fund have recognised the need for tough reforms to ease economic imbalances threatening the global recovery, but governments will need political courage to press on with the painful changes.
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/ 22 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki should call for an urgent resolution on human rights violations in Zimbabwe when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly this week, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. Mbeki is scheduled to address the 58th session of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2003
Pakistan has rejected Australia’s free offer of 57 000 sheep stranded on a ship in the Gulf since Saudi Arabia rejected them five weeks ago. The livestock are at the heart of a dispute between Australian and Saudi Arabia over their level of infection with the scabby mouth viral illness.
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/ 22 September 2003
South African media group Johnnic Communications has joined forces with the Proudly South African campaign to promote South African books and music, new business opportunities for South African companies and a stepped-up consumer education campaign to promote "buy South African".
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/ 22 September 2003
The youth have to take the lead in a social revolution against HIV/Aids in a similar way to the revolution against apartheid.
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/ 22 September 2003
The Boeremag treason trialists have distanced themselves from a so-called ”new” hit list, which includes the names of the trial judge and prosecutors, describing it as a deliberate attempt to blacken their names. One of the accused has also blamed the police for waging a ”campaign” against them.
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/ 22 September 2003
The Ministry of Health has said good progress is being made on tabling an anti-retroviral treatment plan for South Africa. It also hit out at the media reports alleging the opposite, saying it had "noted with concern a false newspaper report that there will be a delay in the provision of anti-retroviral treatment".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20834">Cosatu concerned about Aids delay</a>
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/ 22 September 2003
For the first time since the war in Iraq began, less than half of Americans say they approve of the way President George Bush is handling the situation, according to a new poll. The poll comes as the White House girds for United Nations talks to win a new resolution followed, the president hopes, by offers of troops and money.