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/ 15 January 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa forged ahead at the start on Wednesday, led by heavyweight rand hedge stocks. This followed the rand’s depreciation above the 8,90 to the dollar level and warnings by currency traders that the rand was heading back above 9 to the greenback.
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/ 15 January 2003
The mother-in-law — scapegoat of the old-school male comedian and the butt of many a best man’s joke in wedding speeches. It always got a laugh — ”Take my mother-in-law. Take her!!!” — but faded away as the times grew more politically correct.
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/ 15 January 2003
Now where on the axis of evil can we be? The country’s long-reigning leader thinks the president of the United States is contemptible, a sentiment heartily reciprocated. The leader’s official spokeswoman directly insulted President George W Bush, and she was repudiated only grudgingly.
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/ 15 January 2003
Microsoft Corporation said it will make its prized source code for its Windows operating system available to several governments and governmental agencies as it tries to stem defections to competitors’ software.
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/ 15 January 2003
Rugby hero Francois Pienaar, after an absence of six years, has returned to South Africa and joined First National Bank as a strategic business development manager.
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/ 15 January 2003
Amid protests from victims of Robert Mugabe’s regime and in the face of government advice, English cricket’s governing body has confirmed that it will fulfil its controversial World Cup fixture in Zimbabwe next month.
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/ 15 January 2003
Retired former Citizen editor MA ”Johnny” Johnson died in his sleep at his Highlands North home in Johannesburg early on Wednesday morning.
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/ 14 January 2003
The leading trade associations for music and technology industries in the US have negotiated a landmark compromise over copyright for internet downloads of music and films.
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/ 14 January 2003
With the turning of every year we expect our lives to improve. As long as the economy continues to grow, we imagine, the world will become a more congenial place in which to live. There is no basis for this belief if we take into account such factors as pollution and the depletion of natural capital