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/ 3 November 2003
New Zealand overcame a magnificent performance by underdogs Wales to win 53-37 as the World Cup first round drew to a close with a thrilling Pool D battle in Sydney on Sunday.
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/ 2 November 2003
At the Third Africa Women’s Peace Table seminar, held this week, more than 100 women from civil society and African defence forces discussed their participation in the formation of the AU’s planned African Standby Force, an army made up of soldiers from African countries, to be deployed to conflict areas.
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/ 2 November 2003
South Africa’ impoverished amaHlubi nation is demanding multimillion-rand restitution from the British government in terms of a nearly forgotten 128-year-old proclamation by Queen Victoria. The 1875 proclamation promised to compensate them after imperial troopers executed 200 people and torched scores of villages.
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/ 2 November 2003
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is due in court on Monday to challenge President Robert Mugabe’s contested victory in last year’s polls. Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), wants a rerun of the election that returned his 79-year-old rival to office.
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/ 2 November 2003
A report containing the results of a probe into governance and management problems at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) was handed to Education Minister Kader Asmal in Pretoria on Saturday. Asmal received the report from Dr Bongani Khumalo, the independent assessor who conducted the probe.
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/ 2 November 2003
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe plans sweeping changes to his cabinet and the central bank in a bid to kickstart the faltering economy, state media reported on Saturday. Mugabe blames the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for failing to stem the black market in foreign currency.
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/ 2 November 2003
South Africa’s AngloGold and Ghana’s Ashanti Goldfields look set for marriage soon, creating the world’s largest gold producer with 26 mines on four continents. Ashanti, burdened by high operating costs and problems raising cash to pay short-term debt, received the go-ahead from the Ghana government.
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/ 2 November 2003
Land redistribution needed to be accelerated, government and commercial agriculture agreed at a meeting in Pretoria on Saturday. The issues of land prices and farmer support were central in this process, they said in a statement after an indaba of the presidential commercial agriculture working group.
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/ 2 November 2003
Israel has been described as the top threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran, by an unpublished European Commission poll of 7,500 Europeans, sparking an international row.