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/ 5 September 2003
National Assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala confirmed on Friday that she had referred information about South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma from the national prosecuting authority to Parliament’s ethics committee.
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/ 5 September 2003
The war of attrition between Bulelani Ngcuka and Deputy President Jacob Zuma this week verged closer to an assumption of full public hostilities when the deputy president filed suit in the Pretoria High Court against the national director of public prosecutions. But there are some questions the public may well want answers to.
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/ 5 September 2003
It seems that golf courses are our sad attempts to recreate Eden, which apparently had lots of bunkers all over it (tended by archangels with flaming rakes), and a sprinkler system that came on at five every morning.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will consider asking the ruling African National Congress to set aside 20% of its candidates for the labour federation, ahead of next year’s general election.
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/ 5 September 2003
In a move that threatens to shatter the fragile peace ahead of next week’s trade talks in Mexico, the European agriculture commission on Thursday launched a ferocious attack on poor countries and development campaigners when it dismissed calls for big cuts in Europe’s farm protection regime as extreme demands couched in ”cheap propaganda”.
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/ 5 September 2003
The announcement on Friday morning that the South African Reserve Bank will convene a special monetary policy committee meeting on September 10 has caused consternation in South African financial markets, but left the capital market in no doubt that there will be an interest rate cut next week.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Dalai Lama is willing to return to Tibet and end nearly half a century of exile in India if China allows him to go back to his homeland ”without preconditions”. Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader said he was ready to return to the capital, Lhasa, which he fled in 1959, as soon as he got the ”green light” from Beijing.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Industrial Development Corporation was ”disappointed but vindicated” by the Competition Tribunal’s decision to allow Anglo American Holdings Limited to take control of Kumba Resources, says spokesperson Neo Sowazi.
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/ 5 September 2003
South African pulp and paper conglomerate Sappi announced on Friday that it had repurchased an additional 7,174-million of its own shares representing 3% of its ordinary share capital, at a cost of R693,142-million — or around $82,4-million.
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/ 5 September 2003
The earth just will not stop moving in New Zealand’s Fiordland region, which has been shaking since a quake measuring 7,1 on the Richter scale — equal to the fifth largest in the world this year — struck two weeks ago. Meanwhile, Indonesia was also struck by a quake on Friday.