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/ 13 October 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has rejected a report that there is a rift between him and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali. The controversy follows a speech in which Buthelezi reportedly described Mtshali as a man who "seems not to have had the wisdom or prudence to follow the leadership which I gave him".
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/ 13 October 2003
The United States navy has agreed to limit its peacetime use of a new sonar system designed to detect enemy submarines, but which may also harm marine mammals and fish, an environmentalist group said.
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/ 13 October 2003
A nine-month-old baby girl is being treated in hospital after she was raped in a house in Kalkfontein near Kuils River in the Western Cape on Sunday. The child was found crawling around the kitchen and crying uncontrollably. Her clothes were bloodstained.
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/ 13 October 2003
Monday blues failed to dampen spirits on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE), with the all-share index up for the fourth straight day on the back of a slightly weaker rand and a strong performance by heavyweight dual-listed stocks on positive offshore markets.
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/ 13 October 2003
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo has met exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to warn him not to interfere in his homeland’s fragile peace process. Last month the United Nations’s chief respresentative on Liberia, Jacques Klein, said that Taylor had been telephoning his successor, Moses Blah.
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/ 13 October 2003
South Africa needs to urgently address issues such as black economic empowerment and land reform as well as invest in education to avoid going the way of Zimbabwe, said Mail & Guardian CEO Trevor Ncube on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2003
What could be better than the joint holiday, an arrangement where the responsibility of child care is spread between families, where there is on-tap companionship for your children and babysitting duties can be shared with other parents? A word of caution, many a heavenly plan has turned into the holiday from hell. Let’s look at the pros and cons of shared holidays.
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/ 13 October 2003
Flamboyant US lawyer Ed Fagan is expected to file a new -billion lawsuit on Monday in a New York court against at least five companies accused of defrauding South African workers during apartheid. A class action suit was expected to be filed against the companies which included giant SA finance group Alexander Forbes.
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/ 13 October 2003
Police in Zimbabwe on Monday on charged the spokesperson of the country’s main opposition party with trying to overthrow President Robert Mugabe’s government. Paul Themba Nyathi is accused of being part of a group of opposition officials who "wanted to overthrow the constitutional government and coerce the president to step down".
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/ 13 October 2003
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal on Monday dismissed the Kagiso Consortium’s application for an urgent interdict to restrain the Tiso Consortium from implementing a series of transactions to purchase shares in New Africa Investments Limited (Nail).