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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
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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/ 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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/ 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.
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/ 6 September 2003
Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas may have resigned in a bid to squeeze concessions from Yasser Arafat in a bitter power battle, but it has left the United States-backed road map to peace in tatters.
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/ 6 September 2003
Several thousand protesters, some shouting ”the world is not a piece of merchandise”, demonstrated in Paris on Saturday against the upcoming World Trade Organisation summit in Mexico. Demonstrations were also organised in other French cities.
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/ 6 September 2003
A five-day African health conference ended in Johannesburg on Friday with the continent’s health ministers promising to step up the fight against Aids, malaria and tuberculosis and to bring poverty and malnutrition under control.
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/ 6 September 2003
Relations between Botswana and Zimbabwe are deteriorating as Botswana builds an electric fence along the border and accuses illegal Zimbabwean immigrants of robbing houses and harassing children.