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/ 19 September 2003
The Brenthurst Initiative sets out to link empowerment and growth, in line with Mbeki’s conviction that economic growth, development and BEE are complementary processes. But it remains the discredited deal-making mode of recent years. Worse, it can point to no case where empowerment of this kind generates growth.
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/ 19 September 2003
Nine-and-a-half years into our democracy, we are back in the world of rumour-mongering and assassination by innuendo. Take the case of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. As in the bad old days, the accusers have not proved anything beyond reasonable doubt.
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/ 18 September 2003
The High Court in Zimbabwe on Thursday ordered the reopening of the country’s only independent daily newspaper, the <i>Daily News</i>, closed by the government last week for operating illegally.
<li><a href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20658" class="standardtextsmall">Protesting activists, journalists arrested</a>
<li><a href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20640" class="standardtextsmall">Computers removed from paper’s offices</a>
<li><a href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20623" class="standardtextsmall">SA urged to push Zim to reopen paper</a>
<li><a href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20517" class="standardtextsmall">Editor-in-chief quits</a>
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/ 17 September 2003
The South African information technology security market is expected to grow to R1,057-billion in 2003 and R1,978-billion by 2007, according to the South African Security Products and Services 2003 report, published by ICT market analysts BMI- TechKnowledge.
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/ 17 September 2003
The South African wine industry has turned its attention to empowerment in the industry, and is gearing up for the black economic empowerment (BEE) transformation conference in Cape Town at the end of October. The prime objective of the two-day event is the development of a wine-industry BEE charter
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/ 17 September 2003
Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson has urged the public protector to reconsider his decision not to investigate Deputy President Jacob Zuma. "I must respectfully disagree with his conclusion that there is not enough information to justify an investigation," Gibson said in a statement.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20604">Cosatu: Zuma remains innocent</a>
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/ 17 September 2003
Nedcor (NED) chairperson Chris Liebenberg has scotched speculation that the banking group’s charismatic CEO Richard Laubscher had been "pushed out", saying that he had wanted to leave some time ago but had been persuaded to stay on.
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/ 17 September 2003
South African telecommunications utility Telkom (TKG) has introduced an e-billing service for residential and small business customers. This follows the successful introduction of e-billing last year for corporate and large business customers, Telkom said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 17 September 2003
South African clothing retailer Edgars Consolidated Stores Edcon (ECO) said on Wednesday that it successfully finalised its secondary listing of 51,7-million ordinary shares on the Namibian Stock Exchange.
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/ 17 September 2003
Question: Would you die for your country? If so, why? Question number two: Would you spy for your country? Knowing that the place was run by scumbags who contradict themselves at every turn and are not possessed of a moral scruple worth mentioning — and who wouldn’t defend you when it came to the crunch?
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/ 16 September 2003
The survey results of the first-ever <i>South African Investment Management Index</i> released by Ernst & Young reveal that 71% of investment management companies rated prevailing business conditions as satisfactory during the third quarter of 2003 compared with only 40% in the second quarter.
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/ 16 September 2003
Nedcor chief executive Richard Laubscher has announced his intention to step down from his position by the end of this year after 10 years in the post. Nedcor further announced that it wanted to align market and analysts’ expectations for 2003.
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/ 16 September 2003
Three of Botswana’s opposition parties have signed a deal at the weekend pledging to work together to oust the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in next year’s general election. The BDP has ruled Botswana since independence from Britain in 1966.
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/ 16 September 2003
Struggle leaders — including Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki — on Monday called on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) at its eighth national congress to ensure that the African National Congress won the third democratic elections next year.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20533">Cosatu delegate found dead</a>
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/ 16 September 2003
For those who like to keep an eye on the bigger global picture, beyond the local masturbatory antics of the ANC in its slide towards fascism, this week sees a couple of large scale events about to unfold, which aren’t being focused on much but, in the words of those early morning TV people, will most likely provide good "spectator value".
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/ 16 September 2003
Few things can upstage a constitutional imbroglio like a volcanic eruption. Le Kartala is doing just that. UN agencies are preparing for the worst eruption since the National Scientific Research and Documentation Centre on Grande Comore reported increased seismic activity in the volcano that last erupted 12 years ago.
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/ 15 September 2003
South African trade union Solidarity and the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) have concluded an improved salary agreement, ending a month-long strike by agriculture researchers.
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/ 15 September 2003
The Development Bank of Southern Africa has reported record results for the 2002/03 financial year., with the government-owned development finance institution reporting project approvals worth R3,8-billion.
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/ 15 September 2003
The recent announcement of the definition of "fit and proper" in respect of providing financial advice has been welcomed by industry representatives. The latest instalment of the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act outlines the requirements that any person providing financial advice must meet.
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/ 15 September 2003
Minister Trade and Industry Alec Erwin has said South Africa is concerned and disappointed that trade ministers from across the world were unable to reach a "definite and concrete" outcome at the World Trade Organisation talks in Cancun.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20463">Developing countries flex muscles</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
In an initial deal worth R12-million, clothing retailer Edgars has teamed up with local secure e-payments company Prism Holdings to roll out one of the world’s first mass implementations of sophisticated programmable point-of-sale technology into Edgars stores across South Africa.
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/ 15 September 2003
Johannesburg-based newspaper <i>City Press</i> has published another exclusive story on Scorpions boss Bulelani Ngcuka’s alleged ties with the former apartheid regime. The newspaper claimed to have a police document revealing that Ngcuka had been granted a passport while in detention.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20455">Ngcuka is no spy, say Scorpions</a>
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/ 15 September 2003
If education and other services such as health and water are human rights, how will they be funded? Entitlement based on rights is becoming the international aspirational norm and not here, where the Constitution is explicit. Asmal’s valiant plan to extend free basic education illustrates an international conundrum.
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/ 12 September 2003
Many of Anand Patwardhan’s films were at one time or another banned by state TV channels in India and became the subject of litigation by Patwardhan who successfully challenged the rulings in court. He takes the stand today to answer Vinetia Govender’s questions.
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/ 12 September 2003
South African healthcare company Network Healthcare Holdings has been selected as the likely preferred bidder for two new treatment centres in the United Kingdom worth around R1,4-billion. The group was up against some of the best global health care players and fierce competition.
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/ 12 September 2003
The Arab League said on Friday expelling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would be disastrous, and there were numerous calls around the region for like-minded countries to intervene to prevent his removal. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan also warned that it would be "unwise" to expel Arafat.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20375">Israelis threaten to exile Arafat</a>
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/ 12 September 2003
Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is reaping the whirlwind of an equivocal investigation into Jacob Zuma as the deputy president now moves to exploit the "deference" granted to his status during the conduct of the investigation.
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/ 12 September 2003
The big outcome of the fifth World Parks Congress will be the recognition that conservation efforts and the needs of human communities are inextricably linked, says Minister of Tourism and Environmental Affairs Valli Moosa. Another result would be greater global responsibility for preserving the biodiversity of underdeveloped countries.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20376">Leakey puts wildlife at top of tree</a>
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/ 12 September 2003
It is a suggestive coincidence that this week marks both the anniversary of 9/11, and the 30th anniversary of Pinochet’s infamous putsch in Chile. If baffled Americans are still trying to fathom why a band of extremists flew planes into the WTC, they need look no further than the bloody Chilean coup and its aftermath.
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/ 11 September 2003
The phenomenal growth of South African tourism over the past three years has seen an ever-increasing number of international travellers visiting our shores. In response, the number of small-to-medium enterprises in the local tourism industry has boomed. But is responsible tourism and its sustainability a reality or a pipe dream?
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/ 11 September 2003
United States troops on Thursday remembered the September 11 terrorist onslaught that triggered their invasion of Iraq, but faced a new spate of attacks and warnings by Islamic militants the fight here is far from over.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20318">US remembers Sept 11 amid warnings</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20310">Sept 11: Asia calls for cooperation</a>
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/ 10 September 2003
South African commercial bank First National Bank, part of the Firstrand Group, on Wednesday afternoon joined Standard Bank and Absa in announcing a 100 basis point cut in its lending rates to 13,5%.