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/ 24 October 2003
A court in Zimbabwe said on Friday the country’s only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, which was shut down last month by the government, must be given a licence to operate. The court ruled that the controversial government media commission had been ”improperly constituted”.
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/ 24 October 2003
Police in Zimbabwe have released 78 civil rights protestors arrested earlier this week for demonstrating for a new Constitution, a rights group official said on Friday.
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/ 24 October 2003
The SA Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Friday handed over a memorandum of demands to Shoprite Checkers management, requesting they meet the union’s demands within 48 hours. If the demands are not met, the union says it will intensify its strike.
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/ 24 October 2003
The country’s intelligence community took a hard line on Friday in response to the requested disclosure of their files to the Hefer Commission. Advocate George Bizos, SC, said the various agencies were ”appalled” by the ”dropping” of an NIA name in testimony before the commission.
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/ 24 October 2003
Ousmane Sembene, now in his late 70s, is modest enough not to take particularly kindly to being dubbed ”the father of the African cinema”. He says there are many other pioneers who, though lesser known, deserve to be recognised. But whether he likes it or not, he is the African filmmaker the West acknowledges above all others, writes Derek Malcom.
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/ 24 October 2003
Media freedom institutions in Africa on Friday condemned the killing of a French reporter in Ivory Coast, saying they were distressed by the increasingly dangerous working climate for journalists there.
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/ 24 October 2003
Twenty-eight commuters and the driver were injured when a train overshot Platform 8 at Cape Town station on Friday. The accident happened when the sixth train carrying morning commuters from Wellington overshot the platform shortly after 8am.
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/ 24 October 2003
Here are some words used by DBC Pierre to describe himself, the day after winning the Man Booker Prize: freak, dickhead, arsehole, dumb, farting machine, awkward and bumbling. The 42-year-old Australian concludes: ”I should just fucking shut up.” He talks to Emma Brockes.
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/ 24 October 2003
Sibongile Khumalo once described the late jazz pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa as a young man born old. By that the soprano supreme probably meant Molelekwa was ahead of his time. His death in 2001, at the age of 29, seems to have rendered Khumalo’s observations prophetic, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.