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/ 17 September 2003
There were 14 789 firearms floating around in various state departments in South Africa, MPs heard on Wednesday.
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/ 17 September 2003
The South African information technology security market is expected to grow to R1,057-billion in 2003 and R1,978-billion by 2007, according to the South African Security Products and Services 2003 report, published by ICT market analysts BMI- TechKnowledge.
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/ 17 September 2003
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shrugged off on Wednesday the vetoing by the United States of a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli plans to remove him from his West Bank headquarters. ”The US veto is a black day for the UN and for the Arabs,” Palestinian Negotiations Minister Saeb Erakat said.
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/ 17 September 2003
President Robert Mugabe’s government has broken new economic ground by introducing a form of money that financial experts say has been hitherto unknown — the bearer cheque. This is an attempt to alleviate the desperate shortage of cash in the country.
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/ 17 September 2003
That staple of church bazaars, the humble koeksister — said to be ”a symbol of the self-sufficiency and endurance of the Afrikaner woman” — is finally getting the recognition it deserves. A 2m-high statue of the syrupy confection, with its trademark twist, is to be unveiled in the Afrikaner enclave of Orania on Saturday.
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/ 17 September 2003
Affiliates at the Congress of South African Trade Unions congress agreed on Wednesday to withdraw a proposal calling for more labour federation representatives among African National Congress MPs. The proposal stated that 20% of ANC MPs to come directly from the labour federation.
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/ 17 September 2003
The human rights committee of the General Council of the Bar of South Africa has urged the South African government to pressurise the Zimbabwean government to reopen the Daily News, Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper that was shut down on Friday by armed police officers.
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/ 17 September 2003
The involvement of local communities in the management of protected areas has found expression on Wednesday in the ratification of the Durban Accord at the World Parks Congress — but a conservationist has said it is an example of ”false beliefs and common mistakes rife in conservation”.
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/ 17 September 2003
The South African wine industry has turned its attention to empowerment in the industry, and is gearing up for the black economic empowerment (BEE) transformation conference in Cape Town at the end of October. The prime objective of the two-day event is the development of a wine-industry BEE charter
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/ 17 September 2003
An early rally on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa petered out on Wednesday morning, with the all-share index drifting into the red by noon. Dealers said that caution ahead of Thursday’s futures closeout was also keeping buyers out of the market.