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/ 10 September 2003
A consortium comprising South African media groups Caxton and CTP Publishers, Johncom and Kagiso Media confirmed on Wednesday that it is participating in and is the preferred bidder in the tender process that has been announced by New Africa Investments Limited.
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/ 10 September 2003
Minister of Transport Dullah Omar has announced that dramatic changes to the Road Accident Fund are in the pipeline after the Cabinet had in principle accepted the recommendations of the Satchwell commission report.
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/ 10 September 2003
Amid cultural dance and drama performances, fourteen HIV-positive women in Botswana paraded down the runway this past weekend in a beauty pageant aimed at destroying misconceptions about people living with the disease.
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/ 10 September 2003
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has declared no financial interests in the latest parliamentary register of members’ interests released on Wednesday.
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/ 10 September 2003
Cape-based direct wine marketer the Wine-of-the-Month Club is to proceed with an urgent court interdict to stop listed retailer Woolworths from launching its in-house lifestyle magazine, which it plans to call <i>Taste</i> after the failure of last-minute talks to resolve the conflict.
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/ 10 September 2003
The high level of concentration in the banking sector is not unique to South Africa, and the domination of the South African industry by four banks is in keeping with other middle-income emerging markets.
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/ 10 September 2003
Eternally trawling through the world wide web for the strange, the weird and the bizarre, Ian Fraser brings you Iraqi web blogs, 50s lesbian paperback artwork, cell phone hacking and juicy meatshakes. Take a look at what else he caught in his net this week.
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/ 10 September 2003
The high level of concentration in the banking sector is not unique to South Africa, and the domination of the South African industry by four banks is in keeping with other middle-income emerging markets.
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/ 10 September 2003
As the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) begins trade talks with the United States, it can learn valuable lessons from the outcomes of US trade deals with Mexico and Chile. In the final part of our series, we look at Mexico and Chile’s experiences of US free trade agreements
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/ 10 September 2003
South African movie-goers’ growing appetite for the big screen helped turn local media group Primedia from a loss-maker into a profit-making concern for the financial year ending June 30. Ster Kinekor and 94.7 Highveld Stereo put media group Primedia back in the black
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/ 9 September 2003
Outside the world trade talks beginning in Cancun, Mexico, tomorrow, two battles will be fought. The first will be the battle between campaigners demanding fair trade and rich nations demanding unfair trade. The second will be the dispute brewing among those who claim to be helping the poor.
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/ 9 September 2003
The King inquiry into claims of racism in rugby has been delayed by the continuing dispute over media coverage. On Monday night, Cape High Court Judge Roger Cleaver rejected the SABC’s bid for an order that they be allowed to broadcast the proceedings of the inquiry.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20199">Court rejects SABC rugby interdict bid</a>
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/ 9 September 2003
South African information technology company Intervid extended its losses in the year to June 30, with a headline loss per share of 123,5c from a loss of 44,8c a year ago. No dividend was declared.
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/ 9 September 2003
The International Bar Association has submitted to the Swazi government what legal experts are calling the most comprehensive assessment yet of King Mswati’s proposed draft constitution.
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/ 9 September 2003
The South African Revenue Service kicked off its national dispute resolution roadshow in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The roadshow will consist of a series of half-day seminars aimed at demystifying Sars’s newly formalised fast-tracked approach to tax-dispute resolution.
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/ 9 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has been given two days to come clean about the affairs of the provincial health department, the Democratic Alliance’s Clive Hatch said on Monday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20192">Mahlangu urged to prove claims</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20141">’Freedom of the press is a licence to kill'</a>
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/ 8 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu needs to substantiate his allegations against the media, the National Press Club in Pretoria said on Monday in reaction to a Sunday newspaper advertisement in which Mahlangu lambasted the media.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20141">’Freedom of the press is a licence to kill'</a>
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/ 8 September 2003
Resources stocks steamed ahead on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) on Monday, pulling the all share index safely into the black in noon trade. Dealers said the strength was primarily a rand play, with no other major drivers on the market.
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/ 8 September 2003
Financial services group Metropolitan, the subsidiary of listed South African empowerment group New Africa Capital and a major sponsor of SA Rugby, has offered to assist the organisation in its transformation efforts.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20174">Rugby probe adjourns</a>
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/ 8 September 2003
A public-private partnership agreement to design, build, finance and operate the new R500-million head office campus of the Department of Trade and Industry in Pretoria has been signed between the Trade and Industry Department, the Department of Finance, the City of Tshwane and an empowered consortium, Rainprop.
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/ 8 September 2003
South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi says he does not believe it is appropriate for Deputy President Jacob Zuma to step down as head of the moral regeneration campaign as he remains innocent of any alleged wrongdoing until proven guilty.
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/ 8 September 2003
Namibia’s once charismatic President Sam Nujoma is showing increasingly cranky and irrational behaviour, in keeping with his regional nickname, "Mugabe lite". In recent weeks he has rounded on the media, homosexuals, whites, and the United States for alleged mistreatment of African-Americans.
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/ 8 September 2003
Booker T Washington, former slave and role model for other liberated North American slaves in the 19th century, used to admonish his fellow Negroes to "dip your bucket where you are". It’s hard to dip your bucket when you’re standing on stony ground.
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/ 8 September 2003
More than 2 500 dignitaries, government officials, indigenous leaders,
businessmen and conservationists from over 170 countries are converging on
Durban for a once-in-a decade event that will take stock of the world’s protected areas and set priorities to safeguard them.
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/ 8 September 2003
"The final piece of the jigsaw has fallen into place," opines Supachai Panitchpakdi, director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "This is a historic agreement," he states, "allowing poorer countries to … deal with the diseases that ravage their people." Interesting, but untrue.
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/ 5 September 2003
Having once been an heroic puffer, I’ll say one thing for smokers: despite their ashtray breath and their lethal personal atmospheres, they don’t come anywhere near drinkers when it comes to ostentatious offensiveness.
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/ 5 September 2003
South African house prices slowed somewhat to 18,8% year on year in August compared with a revised 19,2% year on year in July, South African commercial bank Absa said in its monthly House Price Index on Friday. This compared with a recent low of 13,9% year on year in November last year.
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/ 5 September 2003
The announcement on Friday morning that the South African Reserve Bank will convene a special monetary policy committee meeting on September 10 has caused consternation in South African financial markets, but left the capital market in no doubt that there will be an interest rate cut next week.
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/ 5 September 2003
South African pulp and paper conglomerate Sappi announced on Friday that it had repurchased an additional 7,174-million of its own shares representing 3% of its ordinary share capital, at a cost of R693,142-million — or around $82,4-million.
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/ 5 September 2003
Sisulu’s humility, and the fact that he never took government office, are a standing reproach to those in the ruling party whose overmastering concern is to amass power and influence.
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/ 5 September 2003
I’m using this week’s column to scratch at some minor irritations, things that don’t warrant an entire piece.
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/ 5 September 2003
Even allowing for a highly unlikely defeat in the fifth Test at the Oval this weekend, the “New Proteas” have successfully blossomed into a winning unit, impressing many during this intriguing campaign.