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/ 9 September 2003
A small, low-profile university campus is set to become a test case for one of the country’s most complex tertiary education mergers. The East London campus of Rhodes University is the price Rhodes– an institution that for nearly a century has enshrined English liberal values — will pay to retain its name and base in Grahamstown. In January, the University of Fort Hare will absorb the East London campus.
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/ 9 September 2003
South Africa is in a boom period in spite of the rising value of the rand, which is increasing the price of coming here.
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/ 9 September 2003
An Indonesian court will Wednesday pass judgement on the Islamic militant accused of masterminding the bombing of two crowded Bali nightclubs, which killed 202 people last October. Investigators believe Imam Samudra is a leading member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah.
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/ 9 September 2003
The International Bar Association has submitted to the Swazi government what legal experts are calling the most comprehensive assessment yet of King Mswati’s proposed draft constitution.
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/ 9 September 2003
South African information technology company Intervid extended its losses in the year to June 30, with a headline loss per share of 123,5c from a loss of 44,8c a year ago. No dividend was declared.
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/ 9 September 2003
The South African Revenue Service kicked off its national dispute resolution roadshow in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The roadshow will consist of a series of half-day seminars aimed at demystifying Sars’s newly formalised fast-tracked approach to tax-dispute resolution.
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/ 9 September 2003
North Korea celebrated its 55th anniversary as a communist state on Tuesday with patriotic songs, nationalist rhetoric and a troops-only military parade bereft of military hardware, easing tensions over its threats to conduct a nuclear test.
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/ 9 September 2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has hailed India as ”one of the most important countries in the world” before going into talks with his hosts aimed at expanding military and political cooperation. His visit to India has been denounced by India’s Muslim and leftwing groups.
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/ 9 September 2003
Black business people are being urged to play a vital role in the fight against crime in South Africa. Kenny Fihla, the new CEO of Business against Crime SA, intends to bring black business into the organisation.
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/ 9 September 2003
A Zimbabwean Cabinet minister has said about 30 000ha of farmland have been recovered from Zimbabwe ruling-party officials who had acquired more than one farm under the government’s land-reform scheme. President Robert Mugabe appointed a land review committee earlier this year to investigate, among other things, multiple farm ownership.