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/ 9 November 2003
The Zimbabwe government, facing critical foreign currency shortages, has deployed riot police in the capital Harare to stop illegal street dealing. The state-run Herald said that the police were now on patrol at an international bus terminus in the city centre, which is a haven for illegal money changers.
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/ 9 November 2003
The first UN peace missions to Liberia’s rebel-held far east have found deserted towns emptied of all but looting insurgents, and terrorised civilians under rebel grip or lying rotting, dead, in the bush.
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/ 9 November 2003
Sunday Times editor Mathatha Tsedu, dismissed on Saturday by publishers Johnnic Communications, said he was caught in a bind between serving the majority of the paper’s readers who are black and producing a paper white advertisers saw as ”upwardly”.
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/ 9 November 2003
As a motoring journalist I get to drive between 75 and 150 cars a year. All are good, and all have a place in the market, but the vast majority of them are just – well, cars. But every now and then you get your paws on a real beauty and this week, without a doubt, the Alfa Romeo 156 JTD makes it more than worth my while.
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/ 9 November 2003
US troops yesterday unleashed their most furious attack in Iraq since the official end of the war. The attacks, which happened in Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit, were carried out in response to the killing of six soldiers whose Black Hawk helicopter was shot down near the town on Friday.
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/ 9 November 2003
Gallant Wales took small comfort from outscoring World Cup heavyweights England three tries to one as they went out of the tournament with all guns blazing at Lang Park in Brisbane on Sunday.
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/ 9 November 2003
He festers in a prison cell with no company but his own and those of the demons that haunt him. Mijailo Mihajlovic is soon to be formally charged with a assassination that stunned Europe — the stabbing of one of the best loved and most widely admired politicians of her time, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh.
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/ 9 November 2003
France and England took starkly contrasting routes on Sunday into a World Cup semifinal clash that will give the winner a shot at becoming the first northern hemisphere side to win the William Webb Ellis Cup. France made it through with a surprisingly easy 43-21 win over a disappointing Ireland.
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/ 8 November 2003
The Taung district hospital in the North West province serves a population of nearly 250 000 people, spread across 84 villages and three townships (Reivilo, Pudumong and Pampierstad). It has just six doctors — and three of them are leaving next month. The hospital will be left with one senior doctor and two doctors performing their community service.
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/ 8 November 2003
Behind the evictions of hundreds of people in Johannesburg’s inner city — and a protest march last week — lies evidence of fraud, theft and mismanagement, as revealed by a forensic audit commissioned by the Gauteng Department of Housing. The audit, now two years old but kept hidden until it was leaked to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> this week, looks into the Seven Buildings Company.