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/ 28 November 2002
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa opened firmer on Thursday morning, although gold counters were under pressure at the start.
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/ 28 November 2002
Ecuador is experiencing the latest in a series of Latin American eruptions: the peaceful election of a leftwing president whose declared enemies are corruption and poverty and who looks like the antithesis of the kind of leader the US would like to see in the region.
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/ 28 November 2002
A salary increase for doctors in Kenya is attracting medics back to the country’s public health service — and helping to reverse their migration to Southern African countries. The pay rise saw a newly employed intern’s monthly salary increase to R4020, from just R1760.
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/ 28 November 2002
Sifiso Khoza is one of the unfortunate few in South Africa today. Already on trial for sexual assault against five primary school students, the suspended teacher will on Friday seek bail in a branch court in Soweto after being arrested again last Friday on a new charge of rape.
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/ 28 November 2002
Eight people, including one Israeli national, were killed in a suicide bomb blast near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Thursday, witnesses and a government official told AFP.
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/ 28 November 2002
South African cricket captain Shaun Pollock conceded that the Wanderers track used for Wednesday’s clash against Sri Lanka would not be suitable to host the World Cup final in less than four months. Sri Lanka crashed to 128 all out on a green and lively track to lose the first one day international by six […]
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/ 27 November 2002
South African bonds were slightly softer in early trade on Wednesday ahead of the release of October producer inflation data.
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/ 27 November 2002
On a dusty plain at the edge of the township of Katlehong, on the East Rand, Thabotona primary school welcomes its pupils. The school consists of eight classrooms, including one built from fencing material and a shipping container, to accommodate its 504 pupils.
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/ 27 November 2002
The stricken tanker Prestige — which broke apart and sank off Spain’s Atlantic coast this week, taking its destructive cargo to the ocean floor with it — threatens to be Europe’s biggest ecological disaster in decades. Oil-covered seabirds expiring is usually the first image of a tanker disaster.
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/ 27 November 2002
Malcolm Speed, chief executive of the International Cricket Council, said today he would raise with President Robert Mugabe’s government, the ban this week on two British cricket journalists from coming to Zimbabwe.