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/ 17 September 2003
South African clothing retailer Edgars Consolidated Stores Edcon (ECO) said on Wednesday that it successfully finalised its secondary listing of 51,7-million ordinary shares on the Namibian Stock Exchange.
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/ 17 September 2003
South Africa and Australia have clashed over barring Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe, from a Commonwealth summit. The row threatens to split the group along racial lines. South Africa favours engaging Harare through quiet diplomacy, rather than punishing it through sanctions.
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/ 17 September 2003
Swedish police have arrested a man suspected of the murder of the country’s foreign minister, Anna Lindh, who was killed last week in an attack in a Stockholm department store. According to Swedish media reports the man is well-known in far-right circles and is friends with notorious neo-Nazis.
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/ 17 September 2003
The United States has vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding that Israel neither harm nor expel the Palestinian authority president, Yasser Arafat. The US veto flew in the face of the UN Security Council, which voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion.
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/ 17 September 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has rallied around Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the labour federation’s national congress. Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said despite corruption allegations against Zuma, the federation should support him.
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/ 17 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ruled as unconstitutional the arrest and detention of High Court judge Justice Benjamin Paradza early this year for allegedly trying to obstruct the course of justice. The judgement means the corruption charges the judge faced have been dropped.
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/ 17 September 2003
For years Caxton, Independent Newspapers and Media 24, who between them publish the vast majority of South Africa’s "knock and drops", have dominated the CPA. But it now looks certain that Caxton and Independent will pull out of the organisation, making way for marginalised members.
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/ 17 September 2003
Johannesburg Water’s (JW) full-page advertisement, carried by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on August 29, was intended to pacify people already angered by JW’s compulsory installation of pre-payment water meters in Soweto. But instead of this placatory effect, the advertisement warrants outrage.
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/ 17 September 2003
On Friday night four women will be acknowledged in the country’s first Distinguished Woman Scientist Award. The winner will walk away with R50 000. Finalists are Professor Esté Vorster, Professor Zephne van der Spuy, Biotechnologist Professor Jennifer Thomson and Professor Vanessa Watson.
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/ 17 September 2003
Question: Would you die for your country? If so, why? Question number two: Would you spy for your country? Knowing that the place was run by scumbags who contradict themselves at every turn and are not possessed of a moral scruple worth mentioning — and who wouldn’t defend you when it came to the crunch?