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/ 5 November 2002
Taxi operators are driving old, unsafe vehicles because of the government’s plans to recapitalise the industry, the South African National Taxi Council said this week. The organisation said it was worried about the safety of taxi commuters and drivers.
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/ 5 November 2002
The European Commission has announced plans to stop low-cost drugs intended for African countries being illegally resold for big profits in the West. Under the proposal approved by the commission developing countries should be guaranteed access to cut-price medicines.
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/ 5 November 2002
The drums of war beat on. Led by the political leadership of the United States, they get louder day by day. And the recent terrorist attacks in Bali and the Philippines have simply lent further ammunition to the warmongers.
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/ 5 November 2002
The South African rand opened marginally weaker against the dollar on Tuesday but was expected to pick up some gains during the day on offshore flows
and dollar weakness, traders said.
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/ 5 November 2002
The rand advanced to its best level in more than five months on Tuesday, testing 9,85/dollar for the first time since early June, with traders
predicting further gains in the weeks ahead.
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/ 5 November 2002
A year from now the world will know which team has earned the right to be called the best rugby union side but each of the realistic contenders for the 2003 World Cup will have the chance to land a psychological blow this month in the annual series of north-south encounters. All three southern hemisphere […]
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/ 4 November 2002
In the legendary Helena Sheehan-Jeremy Cronin conversations, Cronin pondered the tension between intellect and organisational discipline. But Dumisani Makhaye’s slapdown of Cronin evaded this issue, merely dismissing Cronin as a would-be "white Messiah".
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/ 4 November 2002
The Eastern Cape government is resisting attempts to cast light on alleged corruption in its Department of Education. And the role of Premier Makhenkesi Stofile is again under the spotlight in a two-year sequence of events that remains haunted by controversy and mystery.
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/ 4 November 2002
When a bomb blast ripped through a mosque in Soweto on Wednesday, shattering windows and forcing parts of the lush building to crash, Toto Ndlovu (32) thought a car had just crashed into her home.