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/ 12 September 2003
Employees at the Gauteng Department of Health have an opportunity to play the "money or the box" game by choosing electronic appliances instead of cash for their end-of-year bonuses.
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/ 12 September 2003
Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is reaping the whirlwind of an equivocal investigation into Jacob Zuma as the deputy president now moves to exploit the "deference" granted to his status during the conduct of the investigation.
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/ 12 September 2003
At least half of the 2 500 environmentalists attending the World Parks Congress in Durban have forked out "compensation" for the energy they are using by attending the event, contributing at least $30 each into a fund called the Johannesburg Climate Legacy (JCL).
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/ 12 September 2003
Disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, who quit in a plagiarism scandal, has signed a book contract worth around half a million dollars. The book Burning Down My Master’s House: My Life at The New York Times will be published early next year.
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South African soccer star Mark Fish’s father, Malcolm Fish, was on Thursday jailed for two years for going on a string of drinking binges with stolen cheques. The magistrate said Fish had used the cheques to enjoy himself, and had shown little remorse.
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/ 12 September 2003
Two of the alleged rapists arrested in connection with the gang rape of a matric pupil at a University of Pretoria hostel have been identified as relatives of a high-profile politician in the former government of national unity.
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/ 12 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ruled that a private daily newspaper, which is critical of President Robert Mugabe’s government, is operating illegally because it has not registered under tough media laws.
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World Trade Organisation countries on Thursday showed no major signs of shifting from long-held positions in their first multilateral negotiations devoted to farm reform at a key ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
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The big outcome of the fifth World Parks Congress will be the recognition that conservation efforts and the needs of human communities are inextricably linked, says Minister of Tourism and Environmental Affairs Valli Moosa. Another result would be greater global responsibility for preserving the biodiversity of underdeveloped countries.
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After two months of relative calm in Bunia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) most war-torn town, the 1 500-strong French-led peacekeeping force called in to protect it in June completed its withdrawal last week, amid grave fears among local residents about their security.