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/ 28 September 2001

MBOWENI SEES INFLATION FALLING INTO 2003

SOUTH African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni told parliament’s finance committee on Friday he expected inflation to continue to fall well into 2003. Mboweni said the benchmark CPIX measure of inflation had fallen to the high end of the bank’s three-to-six percent target for 2002 by August. ”CPIX is on a downward trend and it’s […]

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/ 27 September 2001

MUSEVENI: US SHOULD AVOID BEING ‘BULLY’

UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni has warned the United States against “arrogance and behaving as a bully” in its fight against terrorism and encouraged Washington to instead work towards solving the Palestinian question and attaining democracy for the whole world. “The US should not be tempted into using dirty methods at all that cause unnecessary tension […]

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/ 27 September 2001

Basson trial: the defence rests

Pretoria | Thursday APARTHEID era chemical warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson on Wednesday closed his defence case without calling any further witnesses. Basson has spent more than two months in the witness box, defending himself on 46 charges, ranging from murder and drug trafficking to fraud. He flatly denied that he had ever been asked […]

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/ 27 September 2001

Gauteng is home… where the buffalo roam

Johannesburg | Thursday TEN disease-free buffalo have been bought by Gauteng as part of a provincial plan for a new game reserve that will include the ”Big Five” — lion, elephant, leopard, rhinoceros and buffalo. The buffalo have been bought from the Willem Prinsloo game reserve in the Free State for R1,2-million. The province has […]