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/ 26 February 2003
Education remains the largest category of expenditure in this year’s South African Budget, at 23.2% of non-interest spending in 2003/04. However, health, welfare and housing will continue to grow more strong, reflecting the broadening of social service priorities, according to the Budget review.
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/ 26 February 2003
Legislation to allow defection for South African Members of Parliament and members of the nine provincial legislatures got the nod in the national assembly this evening, by 300 votes to 41 of 400 MPs
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/ 26 February 2003
A United Nations helicopter has been fired on as it took off from the town of Bunia in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled Ituri district, the UN mission in DRC, Monuc, said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 February 2003
A 72-year-old British tourist wrongly detained in South Africa on an American arrest warrant for nearly three weeks would be released once the paperwork had been finalised, the United States Embassy said on Wednesday
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/ 26 February 2003
Thirteen Egyptian men have been arrested in Cairo for homosexuality and turned over to the prosecutor, a security official said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 February 2003
President George W. Bush said he would order the assassination of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if US forces had ”a clear shot,” a suburban Chicago newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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/ 26 February 2003
President Thabo Mbeki is expected back home on Wednesday in time for the presentation of the 2003/4 Budget in Parliament after taking part in the Franco-African summit in Paris and a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kuala Lumpur.
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/ 26 February 2003
South African taxpayers can look forward to good news in Wednesday’s Budget, although tax breaks are not expected to reach last year’s record levels.
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/ 26 February 2003
Four people who allegedly masterminded and executed the biggest gem robbery in the history of Antwerp, the diamond-cutting capital of the world, have been arrested, Belgian police said yesterday.
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/ 26 February 2003
Joan Slote, who went on a cycling holiday to Cuba, was fined nearly 000 for breaking the US embargo of the island.