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/ 7 September 2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is due in New Delhi on Monday, armed with three Cabinet ministers and more than two dozen influential business and defence industry executives. Not all Indians will welcome Sharon, however, and India’s neighbour and chief nuclear adversary, Pakistan, will be watching warily.
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/ 7 September 2003
United States President George Bush was set on Sunday to announce a shift on Iraq policy calling in greater United Nations help as his defence secretary admitted the failure to wipe out Saddam loyalists may have sparked the security nightmare.
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/ 7 September 2003
Solidarity, the trade union, has welcomed Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane’s decision to look into problems in veterinary and agricultural research, describing it a political victory.
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/ 7 September 2003
South Africa’s two main opposition parties, the Democratic Alliance and the New National Party, are on opposite sides of the fence over the operational costs of President Thabo Mbeki’s official jet, the Inkwazi.
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/ 7 September 2003
The Unemployment Insurance Fund has announced the sacking of its chief financial officer due to alleged financial irregularities. The move was in part precipitated by a report of the auditor general, which revealed that there had been non-compliance with sections of the Public Finance Management Act.
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/ 7 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki has said the South African Jewish community will always have a home in South Africa and should fear no threat of anti-Semitism, and expressed concern about a report in the United States that said 60% of South African Jews did not see a long-term future for themselves in South Africa.
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/ 7 September 2003
A resilient Justine Henin-Hardenne beat error-prone Kim Clijsters for the US Open championship on Saturday night and won her second Grand Slam title of the year. ”She was just too good,” said Clijsters.
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/ 7 September 2003
Juan Carlos Ferrero knocked Andre Agassi out of the US Open on Saturday, and will replace him as the world’s top-ranked man in the new rankings this week. ”To be at number one, it’s a special day for me,” Ferrero said.
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/ 6 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki has thrown his weight behind the African National Congress and New National Party cooperative government in the Western Cape, in the hope of boosting its popular support ahead of the 2004 elections, now only months away.
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/ 6 September 2003
Farmers in the North West province warned the government this week to improve its support of resettled land claimants — or face the doom of the land reform programme. The government has been criticised for dumping hundreds of families on small pieces of land and expecting them to run sustainable farms.