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/ 21 September 2004
Rabbit meat could be the food of the future for poor South Africans, according to a team of researchers from the University of the Free State. In a paper released at a Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa conference, they said the animals are a cheap and easy-to-raise form of low-cholesterol protein.
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/ 21 September 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday that an international probe into the bloodshed in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region should not delay efforts to bring an immediate end to the violence. ”Things are happening there which must shock the conscience of every human being,” he said.
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/ 21 September 2004
South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was reunited on Tuesday with two notebooks that were confiscated from him while in prison.
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/ 21 September 2004
The fairy godmother of Kilmarnock has struck again. An unemployed cleaner on Tuesday became the sixth person from Kilmarnock to win a seven-figure sum in the national lottery, making the southern Scottish town the luckiest place in Britain, according to lottery organiser Camelot.
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/ 21 September 2004
The madness of the floor-crossing period for municipal government councillors is over and once again the ruling African National Congress has snatched up swathes of support from the opposition. In the period of September 1 to 15, it reaped 326 councillors and only lost four to the opposition — two of them to Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats.
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/ 21 September 2004
Lesotho’s director of public prosecutions has threatened to prosecute members of the Law Society for criminally defaming High Court judges in a memorandum. Lindiwe Sephomolo, secretary of the society, said on Tuesday the memorandum dealt with the ”constitutional infirmity” of the appointment of acting Judge Brendan Cullinan.
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/ 21 September 2004
Security has been stepped up at Johannesburg International airport following an attempted robbery of cargo last week, police said on Tuesday. ”Stringent command and control measures have been instituted to ensure efficient service delivery with the ultimate goal of making the airport a safe and secure environment,” a police spokesperson said.
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/ 21 September 2004
After a year of research and consultations with the local aerospace industry, the South African government has decided to help support growth in the industry through the creation of a joint institution, called the Aerospace Industry Support Initiative, according to Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa.
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/ 21 September 2004
Mark Thatcher won a two-month reprieve on Tuesday from a court order that he answer questions from Equatorial Guinea about his alleged involvement in a coup plot in the oil-rich nation, his lawyer said. Judge John Hlophe granted a request from state prosecutors that Thatcher’s testimony initially scheduled for Wednesday be postponed to November 26, said lawyer Alan Bruce-Brand.
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/ 21 September 2004
A total of 347 police members were suspended between April 1 last year and March 31 this year for their alleged involvement in corruption-related activities, according to the police’s annual report released this week. The report says considerable effort was put into detecting corruption.