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/ 28 February 2003
The Transnet printing-division tender wrangle, in which an African National Congress fund-raiser has been accused of peddling influence for shares, heads back to court
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/ 28 February 2003
The South African Police Service moved on Friday to clarify apparent confusion over the renewal of firearm licences.
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/ 28 February 2003
Queues for the new credit-card licences are winding around the block at testing stations around South Africa as the clock ticks towards the final countdown at midnight on Friday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Derek Bond, the British tourist who spent nearly three weeks in a South African police cell after authorities mistook him for a fraud suspect, on Friday said the ordeal had made him fear for his life.
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/ 28 February 2003
A Zimbabwean court has issued an arrest warrant for Zimbabwean independent journalist Geoffrey Nyarota for failing to appear in court on charges of abusing journalistic privileges, his lawyer said on Friday.
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/ 28 February 2003
Telkom awarded a huge contract, worth an estimated R500-million over five years, to a company that it was concerned might not be solvent — and that didn’t have ownership and control of the equipment needed to do the work.
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/ 28 February 2003
The Scorpions and the Department of Transport are probing allegations of illegal actions by Imperial, the transport and logistics giant, in its multibillion-rand contract to manage government car fleets.
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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
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
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.