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/ 14 February 2003
Gold stocks were off to a strong start on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) on Friday, buoyed by a better bullion price and a strong performance by the ADRs in the US overnight. However, overall the market was flat, with the firmer currency doing little to help heavyweight dual-listed stocks.
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/ 14 February 2003
A leading Chinese space official confirmed that the country would go ahead with its first-ever manned space flight this year, despite the recent loss of the US shuttle Columbia, state press reported on Friday.
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/ 14 February 2003
The space shuttle’s skin almost was certainly pierced, allowing superheated air inside the left wing and possibly the wheel compartment during Columbia’s fiery descent through Earth’s atmosphere, investigators said on Thursday.
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/ 14 February 2003
Police have tightened security around Parliament ahead of Friday morning’s state of the nation address by President Thabo Mbeki. Also adding finishing touches, was the president himself, who was still finalising his speech in the early hours of Friday
morning.
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/ 14 February 2003
Western Cape police made another breakthrough in the Sizzlers massacre case when the second suspect, arrested on Thursday night, made a full confession before a Cape Town magistrate on Friday.
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/ 14 February 2003
Anxious to put itself on the world map, the Ruritanian statelet of Liechtenstein has hatched an extraordinary plan: it is putting itself up for rent.
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/ 14 February 2003
Passengers with smelly armpits could be banned from travelling in taxis and public buses if new draft laws are adopted by the city council, the Sowetan reported on Friday.
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/ 14 February 2003
Veteran politician Walter Felgate alleges the IFP leader ordered him to sabotage the 1994 election. Musa Zondi, MP and national spokesperson for the Inkatha Freedom Party responds…
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/ 14 February 2003
The US and Britain will next week begin a push for a UN security council resolution authorising war against Iraq after the chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, delivers his report today on the frustrating hunt for weapons of mass destruction.
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/ 14 February 2003
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report was ”very kind” to Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, says his erstwhile aide and close confidant Walter Felgate.