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/ 26 November 2002
Schoolchildren are being kicked off school buses during the current exam period because provincial education departments have scrapped some transport subsidies. And certain schools are now illegally refusing to register children whose parents cannot prepay fees for next year.
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/ 26 November 2002
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast that killed at least 11 people in west Jerusalem on Thursday morning, but a Gaza-based leader of the radical Islamic group Hamas said the grisly attacks would go on.
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/ 26 November 2002
The policy proposals on the new institutional landscape in higher education have been correctly described as the most radical and far-reaching educational reform since Verwoerd introduced Bantu Education.
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/ 26 November 2002
The rand reached 9,2675 rand per dollar earlier this week, a 17% improvement against the US dollar since the start of this year, and a massive 35% improvement on the record worst level of R13,86 per dollar reached on December 20, 2001.
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/ 26 November 2002
South Africa’s R50 note depicts a lion and the world’s current best performing currency has certainly been roaring like the king of the beasts lately.
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/ 26 November 2002
A rampaging rand — trading at its best levels for more than a year — smacked South African stocks down over one percent on Tuesday morning as investors sold out of firms that pay costs at home and earn abroad.
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/ 25 November 2002
An undiscovered poem of high quality by the English poet Philip Larkin was published for the first time this week, writes John Ezard.
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/ 25 November 2002
When The Quiet American was published Graham Greene was savaged for being ‘anti-American’. No wonder Miramax is worried about the latest film version, says David Thomson.
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/ 25 November 2002
There is a deepening fissure between analysts in their understanding of, and approach to, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development. Researchers are being herded into two camps, the Afro-pessimists and the Afro-optimists.
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/ 25 November 2002
A stronger bullion price saw gold stocks lead the upside of the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) on Monday. Overall, however, the market was flat and volumes thin.