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/ 19 September 2003
Market capitalisation of all securities listed on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa amounted to R1,446.1-billion at 28 February 2003, ranking the JSE as the 17th largest stock exchange in the world in terms of market capitalization, the Financial Services Board (FSB) indicates in its latest annual report.
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/ 19 September 2003
The fact that Zimbabwe’s political self-destruction threatens to split the Commonwealth summit later this year comes as an unwelcome development for Commonwealth leaders, who had been assured that Robert Mugabe would no longer be president by the time they gather in Abuja, Nigeria, in December.
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/ 19 September 2003
Peter Marais and David Malatsi took few precautions — no Swiss bank accounts, no anonymous envelopes stuffed with cash — to cover their alleged corruption in the Roodefontein property scandal, it appears from a draft charge sheet against both disgraced politicians.
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/ 19 September 2003
About 40 000 taxpayers continue to mislead the South African Revenue Service (Sars) about their income from investments, leading to a loss of R1,2-billion a year in potential revenue from taxes. But the department is about to crack down on them.
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/ 19 September 2003
A casual observer at the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s conference in Midrand this week could be forgiven for thinking it was an African National Congress affair. Political debates and sloganeering dominated — perhaps inevitably, given that elections are round the corner.
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/ 19 September 2003
A judicial commission of inquiry will investigate allegations that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid-era spy, the Cabinet announced on Thursday.
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/ 19 September 2003
A company that was contracted to manage government funds donated to the taxi industry in Gauteng channelled money into the personal bank account of provincial Transport Minister Khabisi Mosunkutu.
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/ 19 September 2003
Community leaders left Durban at the end of the World Parks Congress satisfied that most of their demands had been recognised. But hundreds of community conservationists this week called for "a truth and reconciliation commission" to deal with injustices and mistakes made in the name of conservation.
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/ 19 September 2003
They all quote PAC founder Robert Sobukwe, owe allegiance to the Pan Africanism epitomised by the gallant Nkrumah and Garvey, and are mostly intellectual heavyweights like Dr Motsoko Pheko, Dr Snail Mgwebi and Dr Stanley Mogoba. But it has become notable that PAC members cannot hold a meeting without somebody staging a walkout, singing songs, denouncing the leaders or squabbling over position.
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/ 19 September 2003
Hurricane Isabel has plowed into North Carolina’s Outer Banks with 160 kph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, weakening to a tropical storm by evening but not before swamping roads, knocking out power to more than 2,5-million people and resulting in at least four deaths.