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/ 15 October 2003
Israel’s prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has dismissed a draft peace agreement drawn up by left-wing Israeli politicians and Palestinian leaders as the ”greatest historic mistake” since the Oslo peace accords a decade ago.
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/ 15 October 2003
Untangling the financial web woven by arch-fraudster Jurgen Harksen has taken the best part of a decade, but the trustees of his insolvent estate feel the end is in sight. One of them, Michael Lane, said in Cape Town this week that there was still ”quite a lot” of litigation in process, with eight cases pending.
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/ 15 October 2003
Ageing anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude and Treatment Action Campaign activist Mark Heywood made a rare appearance at Montecasino on Tuesday night for the
premiership of Oscar-nominated director Robert Bilheimer’s Aids documentary A Closer Walk.
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/ 15 October 2003
Rebels rampaging in the strife-torn central African state of Burundi have decapitated a local government official, a provincial governor said on Tuesday. News of the attack came as the Burundi army accused the main Hutu rebel movement in Burundi of failing to respect a ceasefire.
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/ 15 October 2003
China’s first manned spacecraft was launched early on Wednesday. But most of the country’s one billion population did not get even a dim view of the blast-off from the Gobi desert, because a nervous government had pulled the plug on a live television broadcast.
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/ 15 October 2003
Bill Gates is to donate at least -million to research into whether GM food can provide 840-million malnourished people with extra vitamins and micro-nutrients. But the first move by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been criticised by development groups which said the research was ”scientifically unnecessary”.
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/ 15 October 2003
A year after a sniper rampage turned suburban malls and petrol stations into killing grounds, one of the men accused of hunting unseen for three weeks through Washington appeared in court yesterday to plead not guilty to murder.
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/ 15 October 2003
Beyond the protracted anti-retroviral debate in South Africa is a worrying lack of attention to the "shelter and services needs" of families with members who are HIV-positive or living with Aids. Local government has been fingered as the villain for failing to deliver basic services — it must, argues a prominent scholar, get its act together.
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/ 15 October 2003
The dramatic exit of columnist Darrel Bristow-Bovey from three newspapers and the exit of <i>Elle</i> editor Cynthia Vongai over allegations of plagiarism is a sign that media houses are taking the issue seriously. However, it has been suggested that no law against plagiarism per se exists in South Africa, and that it is not a legal term.
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/ 15 October 2003
Media 24, Naspers’s print arm, has launched an assault on rival Independent Newspapers’s dominance of the Durban newspaper market. Under the title <i>Weekend Witness</i>, the Pietermaritzburg-based <i>Natal Witness</i> has introduced a Saturday paper aimed at Durban, the coast and inland KwaZulu-Natal.