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/ 13 January 2003
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries last night handed a lifeline to the struggling global economy with a deal to raise output and keep a lid on the oil price.
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/ 13 January 2003
Smugglers are using the Central African Republic to get illicit diamonds out of the continent’s conflict zones, according to a report released Monday.
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/ 13 January 2003
In light of the recent spat between Minister of Transport Dullah Omar and KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress leader S’bu Ndebele, the Automobile Association of South Africa has called for closer co-operation between the three spheres of government to reduce fatalities and injuries on the country’s roads.
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/ 13 January 2003
About 90 000 houses are to be built for needy South Africans thanks to a R200-million deal between the National Reconstruction and Housing Agency (Nurcha) and an American investment company.
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/ 13 January 2003
Among those riding the wave of optimism in the wake of the opposition’s overwhelming and unprecedented election victory in Kenya last month is the east African country’s beleaguered coffee sector, which gives work to half-a-million farmers.
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/ 13 January 2003
In rapidly escalating violence just two weeks before Israel’s general election, seven Palestinians, two of them gunmen who infiltrated an Israeli town, two other Arab attackers and two Israelis were killed in a 24-hour period.
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/ 13 January 2003
Speculation over whether Johnnic Holdings (JNC) may dispose of its media assets continues to make the rounds, but the group’s chief operating officer, Jacob Modise, says it is all ‘nonsense’.
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/ 13 January 2003
The South African government said on Monday it had no prior knowledge of a plan in terms of which Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would resign and be replaced by a coalition government.
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/ 13 January 2003
On August 13 2001 Harriet Kopi weighed 35kg, had severe migraines, a debilitating skin condition and lacked movement in her right side, forcing her to use crutches. Fourteen days later, things had changed. ”My right side began twitching on its own, then it stopped and I found I could move again.
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/ 13 January 2003
The board of the National Land Committee (NLC) and its affiliates are investigating the NLC’s best-known official, Zakes Hlatshwayo, CEO of its national office in Johannesburg. But the accusations against Hlatshwayo remain a mystery. The investigation began in September.