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/ 28 February 2003
Overseas visitors to South Africa soared by 35% y/y to 198 615 after rising by a record 42% y/y in October. This brought the cumulative increase for the first 11 months to 18.5% y/y for a total of 1 668 352, data supplied by Statistics South Africa show.
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/ 28 February 2003
Swaziland faces a number of serious economic problems, its finance minister warned on Thursday, blaming expenditure on overseas trips for officials and corruption within the government.
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/ 28 February 2003
Three employees of the Algerian billionaire Abdelmoumene Khalifa have been arrested in Algiers trying to board a Paris-bound jet with suitcases stuffed with millions of euros, sources said on Thursday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Kenya’s public debt rose to eight-billion dollars by the end of December last year, according to figures released by the central bank on Thursday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Incoming Minister of Housing Brigitte Mabandla has been universally praised for her intelligence and personal warmth — but questions have been raised about her administrative abilities.
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/ 28 February 2003
Seven Eastern Cape government officials and a policeman appeared in Umtata and East London courts on Thursday after they were arrested in connection with fraud, theft and corruption.
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/ 28 February 2003
Motor giant DaimlerChrysler South Africa has promised to extend treatment and monitoring of Aids-suffering staff members and their families who have been made redundant by operational requirements.
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/ 28 February 2003
The Scorpions are preparing to seize an alleged bribe of R340 000 paid by the developer of the Roodefontein golf estate, Count Riccardo Agusta, to the New National Party, the elite investigative unit said on Thursday
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/ 28 February 2003
The fate of 40 000 squatters rests on a government appeal to the Constitutional Court against a high court ruling. The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said this week that it would file papers by February 28 to take the case of Modderklip farm, where 40 000 squatters have settled on privately owned land, to the Constitutional Court.
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/ 28 February 2003
A California financier paid a million dollars to have Paul McCartney play at his wife’s birthday party, reports Tim Dowling. How far will a million dollars really go?