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/ 31 October 2002
South Africa’s rand clung to single-digit territory against the dollar on Thursday but no more big gains were seen on the immediate horizon. At 1115 GMT, the rand traded at R9,9625, about 14 cents firmer on the day.
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/ 31 October 2002
South Africa’s rand opened steady on Thursday but was seen putting in some gains as the dollar crept lower with talk of funds reversing yen-short and euro-short bets ahead of US data this week.
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/ 31 October 2002
Ariel Sharon was seeking the backing of the far right to keep him in power last night after the Labour party walked out of his national unity government and lifted the constraints on one of the most hardline prime ministers in Israel’s history.
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/ 31 October 2002
Israel calls itself the only democracy in the Middle East, a self-description all too readily accepted in the West. Only critics in the Arab world and a handful of radical Israeli academics have challenged this orthodoxy, observing that the country is really an ”ethnic democracy”.
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/ 31 October 2002
E was bitten badly by the Decode bug. In 2000 he bought 30m kronas’ worth of shares – more than 230,000 pounds at today’s exchange rates – when prices were at their peak. They are now worth considerably less than 10,000 pounds and he faces bankruptcy.
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/ 30 October 2002
Like most countries, America’s collective attention span only really allows for one big story at a time. Until last week the consuming obsession was the hunt for the Washington sniper. Then it was the climax of baseball’s ”world series” (actually a contest between two teams from California).
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/ 30 October 2002
Eastern Cape dagga growers and the network of smugglers and dealers are worried that the cultivation of hemp in South Africa will render their crops worthless within a few years.
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/ 30 October 2002
South Africa awoke to its second post apartheid experience of terror on Wednesday with reports that a series of explosions had rocked the township of Soweto south of Johannesburg.