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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.
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/ 5 September 2003
Senior Pan Africanist Congress members, disillusioned with the organisation’s president, Motsoko Pheko, have called an All Africanist Conference in Cape Town. The meeting is a likely prelude to their breaking away from the PAC and forming a new party.
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/ 5 September 2003
Thirteen alleged Boeremag members won the right on Thursday not to have to listen to centralised radio broadcasts in prison — provided they buy portable radios for fellow inmates who would otherwise be left in silence.
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/ 5 September 2003
Despite an upbeat assessment of the African National Congress Women’s League’s congress by some of its officials, many of the problems that plagued the organisation are likely to remain with it for a while.
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/ 5 September 2003
Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi will join a dispute in the Bloemfontein High Court over tax on farmland. A Free State farmer has applied for a court order to declare the levying of a 2% municipal tax on his farms as illegal.
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/ 5 September 2003
Minister of Sport Ngconde Balfour said on Thursday that it was not appropriate that speculations continue to surface in the media about racism in rugby. Also on Thursday, Springbok rugby captain Corne Krige accused Mark Keohane of acting in his own self-interest by quitting, while coach Rudolf Straeuli insisted that resigning from his post had never crossed his mind.
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/ 5 September 2003
The government on Friday denied media reports that it was planning to do away with school uniforms, saying that the deputy minister of education was quoted out of context.
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/ 5 September 2003
Although global foreign direct investment (FDI) fell by 21% in 2002 to $651-billion, the lowest since 1998’s $686-billion, 30 out of 53 African countries attracted higher inflows in 2002 than in 2001.
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/ 5 September 2003
The Mail and Guardian this week takes the extraordinary step of figuratively nailing its colours to the mast.
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/ 5 September 2003
Even allowing for a highly unlikely defeat in the fifth Test at the Oval this weekend, the “New Proteas” have successfully blossomed into a winning unit, impressing many during this intriguing campaign.