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/ 29 October 2002
South Africa’s rand broke below 10 to the dollar on Tuesday for the first time since July 22, as it continued to confound sceptics with a rally that seen it gain close to 20% this year.
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/ 29 October 2002
Cautious United States residents of Saudi Arabia like to sport a South African flag on their gas-guzzlers. Diplomats at South African missions in Jeddah and Riyadh say that since September last year they have done a roaring business in decals of the six-coloured standard.
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/ 29 October 2002
The Democratic Alliance has delayed to next March a Western Cape party conference that is widely expected to oust Gerald Morkel as the party’s provincial leader. The conference, scheduled for November 2, was postponed by unanimous decision of the management committee.
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/ 28 October 2002
Two men wanted for questioning in connection with the wave of deadly sniper attacks in the United States were arrested early on Thursday after they were found sleeping in their car at a Maryland rest stop, authorities said.
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/ 28 October 2002
Sarah Mazwai and her family are counting the days to March: they will be moving into a new four-roomed house after living in informal settlements for the past 15 years. Mazwai is the family’s sole breadwinner, earning R200 a month as a domestic worker.
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/ 28 October 2002
Kenya’s fractured opposition united this week behind a single candidate for December’s presidential elections to try to prise President Daniel arap Moi’s party from power. Mwai Kibaki, a close runner-up in the past two polls, is backed by the new National Rainbow Coalition.
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/ 28 October 2002
Israel signalled this week that in deference to Washington’s campaign against Iraq it will hold back from its usual tough response after Monday’s suicide bombing that killed 14 people. But it swiftly made life harder for Palestinians with a ban on drilling for water.
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/ 28 October 2002
President Thabo Mbeki performed a gutsy version of the defiance campaign song Senzeni na (What have we done?) during his three-day imbizo tour of Gauteng last week. Mbeki’s point was that there was no longer any need for defiance.
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/ 28 October 2002
Chechen gunmen shot and killed one of the hundreds of hostages being held at a Moscow theatre, Russian news media reported. A female hostage held by Chechen militants in a Moscow theatre was executed by her captors. A TV report showed a stretcher with a body being taken out.