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/ 23 January 2003
Tony Blair’s government was last night accused of ”outrageous and dishonourable” double standards over Zimbabwe as it emerged that Britain had struck a deal with France that will allow President Robert Mugabe to defy an EU travel ban and attend a Franco-African summit in Paris next month.
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/ 23 January 2003
Decades of poorly researched Hollywood movies have conditioned us to think of molten lava flowing like water, pouring from a volcano in red-hot torrents to overwhelm people and property alike. Fortunately this perception is seriously flawed.
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/ 23 January 2003
Eight lions supposedly saved from the canned hunting industry face being harmed by their owner’s good intentions clashing with the law. Greg Mitchell and Kelcey Grimm bought the lions from a breeder, Marius Prinsloo, for R175 000 and gave them shelter at the Enkosini reserve.
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/ 23 January 2003
Parliament faces a gruelling year, with a slew of controversial but important delivery-orientated measures on its lawmaking agenda. On the security front, the long-delayed Anti-Terrorism Bill will finally go before the House, two-and-a-half years after a first draft.
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/ 23 January 2003
Shares in SABMiller (SAB) — the world’s second largest brewer – were down 60 cents, or almost one percent in early trade on the JSE Securities Exchange. At 0924 local time, the counter was quoted at R60, from R60,60 at Wednesday’s close.
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/ 23 January 2003
Despite recent remarks by South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni which appear to torpedo hopes of an early interest rate cut, economists at one of the country’s biggest financial institutions, ABSA, believe a rate cut as early as March is still possible.
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/ 23 January 2003
Beneath the question of whether a nutty sect has actually cloned a baby, lies the more interesting question of why it actually wants to. "The goal is to give humans eternal life through cloning," say the Raelians. You make a clone copy of me and then "download’" my personality into the clone.
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/ 23 January 2003
OBITUARY: "JOHNNY" JOHNSON: Johnny Johnson, who has died aged 79, did not have to make <i>The Citizen</i> profitable — it was bankrolled by the then National Party government to carry out its mission to propagate the apartheid policies of the NP.
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/ 23 January 2003
Economists were generally upbeat about the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) country report on South Africa, released on Thursday. The report said the South African government continued to implement sound monetary and fiscal policies.
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/ 23 January 2003
South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has denied a deterioration in ties with Zimbabwe during a visit to the country in the wake of a diplomatic row.