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/ 30 October 2003
The T-shirt, the poster, the billboard. Traditionally the weapons of protest and of solidarity are remarkable for their ability to cross oceans with similar messages, as displayed in an exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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/ 30 October 2003
On the eve of his retirement, one of the country’s best known prosecutors has released a report calling for the scrapping of the lengthy recesses currently found in South Africa’s high courts.
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/ 30 October 2003
Hundreds of nurses at Zimbabwe’s state hospitals have called off a strike after the government promised to address their demands for steep pay increases, according to a newspaper report. The government said it would respond to the nurses’ demand for a 7 000% increase within one week.
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/ 30 October 2003
Rightwingers planning a coup d’état were in 2001 provided with maps, aerial photographs and weapons and ammunition stock lists of the Lohatlha defence force base in the Northern Cape, police informer Johannes Coenraad Smit told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
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/ 30 October 2003
Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/Aids must be eradicated as a critical component of expanding access to treatment and care.
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/ 30 October 2003
On Halloween, when legend says disembodied spirits return in search of living bodies to possess, Joe Nickell goes on the prowl, too — for ghosts, ghouls and other things that creep in the night. The former private eye is now a senior research fellow at the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
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/ 30 October 2003
Finland was ranked the most competitive country in the world by the World Economic Forum on Thursday, edging out the United States from the top spot in its annual survey thanks to a healthy Finnish economy, efficient public institutions and technology-driven industry.
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/ 30 October 2003
For those who worry the United Nations doesn’t already deal with enough red tape, the UN General Assembly has begun discussing a proposal to set up an international tax organisation that would act as a forum to help countries spell out their own standards and principles so that they could better coordinate tax policies.
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/ 30 October 2003
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Wednesday ruled out any official apology for Germany’s ruthless suppression of rebellions when Namibia was a German colony, but indicated Berlin would increase aid once Germany’s economy recovers.
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/ 30 October 2003
Southern Sun Hotels, South Africa’s largest black empowerment hotel and gaming group, has signed a R100-million management contract with the Pezula Group for a multimillion rand luxury resort hotel to be located in Knysna at the Pezula private estate.