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/ 5 November 2003
The state has forfeited its right to appeal against the quashing of certain charges — of conspiring to murder people abroad — against apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, the Constitutional Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
It has not been a good week for press freedom in Africa: three journalists in Morocco have been given jail sentences; an Algerian court has handed down sentences to a journalist and an editor, and an AFP reporter in Equatorial Guinea has been detained.
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/ 5 November 2003
It would be a macabre exercise, but if anyone were ever to compile a league table of political assassins, ranked solely by success in achieving their goals, there is no doubt who would come out on top. It would surely be Yigal Amir, the Jewish extremist who murdered Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin eight years ago on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
Syria has called on the United States to pull its troops out of Iraq, saying their presence has led to chaos and terrorism. ”When America entered Iraq, there was no terrorism problem. Now, there is the problem of terrorism and of al-Qaeda,” Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bushra Kanafani said on Wednesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
For months, 13-year-old Percilia wandered the streets of Maputo, surviving off scraps of food she begged from strangers or salvaged from garbage cans. Like thousands of other children here, Percilia and her young sister were left to fend for themselves when their parents and older sister died of Aids-related complications.
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/ 5 November 2003
The United Nations World Food Programme needs more donations, or 6,5-million people would face severe hunger at the most critical time of year. ”Unless WFP receives immediate donations, people will face severe hunger,” Mike Sackett, WFP regional director for southern Africa said on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
South African Navy chief Johan Retief says the Navy participation in the tendering process for four corvettes — the first which arrived at Simon’s Town on Tuesday — was above reproach.
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/ 5 November 2003
Emerging market insurance provider Safrican Insurance Company, wholly owned by Thebe Investment Corporation company, and South African government-owned Postbank said on Tuesday they had joined forces to provide affordable insurance cover to the local "unbanked" economic sector.
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/ 5 November 2003
The focus falls this weekend on South Africa’s youth who appear — at least up to now — to have spurned the political process and have not yet registered on the voters’ roll so they can vote in next year’s national election.
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/ 5 November 2003
SA’s second national operator would be named in eight weeks, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri indicated on Tuesday. The minister said that a search for the SNO’s 51% shareholders or investors had so far not been successful and the ”equity stake will be warehoused until suitable investors or shareholders are found”.