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/ 5 February 2003
About 375 670 South Africans are expected to die from HIV/Aids this year, an increase of more than 30% from the estimated Aids-related deaths in 2000.
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/ 5 February 2003
The negative impact that a stronger rand will have on export performance as well as industries competing against imported products is expected to lead to a slower growth rate of 2,3% during the current year.
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/ 5 February 2003
South African house prices are expected to increase by about 12% on average in 2003, according to banking group ABSA.
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/ 5 February 2003
The Maputo City Court was due to deliver its verdict on January 31 in the case of the six men accused of murdering Mozambique’s foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000. Carlitos Rashid and Manuel Fernandes, have confessed to their part in the murder.
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/ 5 February 2003
Hundreds of civilians, mainly women and children, fled fighting on Tuesday in Kley District, 37 kilometres west of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, between Liberian government forces and members of the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (Lurd).
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/ 5 February 2003
More details are emerging about the remarkable life of intrigue lived by Tai Minnaar. Though he joined the defence force as a young man and trained as a paratrooper, he was apparently recruited as an intelligence agent while studying to be a priest.
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/ 5 February 2003
Tour operators and ”jeep jockeys” cashing in on SA’s increasingly competitive wildlife industry have taken to taunting animals and herding them towards tourist vehicles for a close-up view – with fatal consequences. At least two people were trampled by elephants over the festive season.
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/ 5 February 2003
As the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula escalates, ethnic Koreans in Japan are increasingly rallying behind Kim Jong-Il — not Pyongyang’s enigmatic supreme leader, but his Japan-based namesake, a one-time supporter turned vocal critic.
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/ 5 February 2003
Nasa was warned nine years ago that the space shuttle could fail catastrophically if debris hit the vulnerable underside of its wings during liftoff — the very scenario that may have brought down Columbia.