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/ 27 February 2003
South Africa’s Ministry of Finance is set to release the new Money Bill or mining royalty system to the public before the end of March, Finance Ministry representative Logan Wort said on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2003
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel moved to spur economic growth on Wednesday, unveiling a Budget to put billions of rands back into taxpayer’s pockets, and spending to help uplift the poor.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=11614 ">Trevor hands out the plums</a><br>
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/ 27 February 2003
Scotland Yard detectives hunting the killers of a young African boy whose headless and dismembered body was found floating in the River Thames in London were due to arrive in Nigeria on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2003
Nearly 80 Zulu warriors wearing armbands of white goat fur and loinclothes of antelope tails race down the battlefield of Isandlwana screaming and slapping their wooden clubs against their cowhide shields to rouse themselves for battle.
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/ 27 February 2003
The Israeli government has an offer for Jabir Abu Kaf. It will recognise a small patch of parched land as his own, provided he agrees to get off it and sell it to the state.
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/ 27 February 2003
The US space agency Nasa yesterday announced the death of one of its most enduring missions — Pioneer 10.
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/ 27 February 2003
Nedcor says Wednesday’s Budget is pro-growth, with an aggressive mix of tax cuts and expenditure increases that should help to boost consumer and business confidence in the year ahead.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=11589">Manuel mum on mining royalties</a><br>
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/ 27 February 2003
You have probably heard of speed dating. Here’s what happens: you take an equal number of men and women and place them in a room. The women stay put while the men rotate, spending three minutes with each female, chatting
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/ 27 February 2003
For a middle-income country with all sorts of problems, South Africa is quite good at attracting skilled immigrants, but neither states nor common economic zones allow completely unfettered immigration, be it skilled or unskilled. There are always some bureaucratic imperatives to fulfil
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/ 27 February 2003
Broadcasts of Osama bin Laden’s videos and exclusive footage of the Afghan war allowed TV channel al-Jazeera to make a huge name for itself. But not everyone approves of its output