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/ 11 September 2003
Springbok number eight and former captain Bobby Skinstad is refusing to give up on his dream of forcing his way into South Africa’s Rugby World Cup squad. Skinstad, who broke his right arm playing a club match last month and was subsquently omitted from coach Rudolf Straueli’s 30-man squad, said he still plans to travel […]
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/ 10 September 2003
Eight people have been killed and 2 215 displaced in flooding in Kano State in northern Nigeria, state officials said on Wednesday.
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/ 10 September 2003
The Democratic Alliance has asked Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana to investigate whether Deputy President Jacob Zuma contravened code under the Executive Ethics Act.
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/ 10 September 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma faced yet another barrage of questions on Wednesday on the corruption allegations against him — this time in the National Assembly — and again rejected suggestions he step down.
DA asks protector to investigate Zuma
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/ 10 September 2003
Hamas on Wednesday threatened to widen its bombing campaign and target homes and high-rises in Israel, in retaliation for an air strike that flattened the house of a Hamas leader and killed his eldest son and a bodyguard.
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/ 10 September 2003
South African commercial bank First National Bank, part of the Firstrand Group, on Wednesday afternoon joined Standard Bank and Absa in announcing a 100 basis point cut in its lending rates to 13,5%.
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/ 10 September 2003
The Democratic Alliance and the New National Party have reacted to the announcement by the South African Reserve Bank of a 1% cut in the repo rate. A scheduled meeting of the bank’s monetary policy committee was pre-empted by the repo-rate meeting on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20291">FNB joins Standard, Absa in cutting rates</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20288">Reserve bank cuts rate</a>
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/ 10 September 2003
A consortium comprising South African media groups Caxton and CTP Publishers, Johncom and Kagiso Media confirmed on Wednesday that it is participating in and is the preferred bidder in the tender process that has been announced by New Africa Investments Limited.
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/ 10 September 2003
South African Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Wednesday warned that his department could take legal action against companies that do not meet a deadline of October 1 for the submission of employment equity reports.
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/ 10 September 2003
Minister of Transport Dullah Omar has announced that dramatic changes to the Road Accident Fund are in the pipeline after the Cabinet had in principle accepted the recommendations of the Satchwell commission report.