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/ 1 September 2004
Forty-one members of a Zimbabwean civil liberties group, the National Constitutional Alliance, were arrested in Harare on Wednesday, alliance head Lovemore Madhuku said. He said the arrests occurred during a protest against the Zimbabwe NGO Bill, a new law that seeks to ban foreign funding for human-rights organisations.
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/ 1 September 2004
Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took more than 200 people hostage at a school in the south of the Russian Federation near war-torn Chechnya on Wednesday and threatened to blow up the building if the security forces moved in. It is Russia’s fourth terror attack within a week.
At least 10 die in Moscow suicide blast
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/ 1 September 2004
Libyans on Wednesday marked the 35th anniversary of Moammar Gadaffi’s seizure of power, with the familiar posters of their mercurial leader, who has shed his long-held pariah status, adorning city streets. On Tuesday evening, their leader delivered one of his set-piece speeches, relayed live by state media.
Gadaffi wants journalists freed
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/ 1 September 2004
The Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi on Wednesday added his voice to growing calls from the Arab world for the immediate release of the two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq. Colonel Gadaffi said kidnapping foreigners in Iraq amounted to ”terrorism” and that kidnappings were especially reprehensible when they involved ”hostages from countries that stood against the war in Iraq”.
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/ 1 September 2004
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete, speaking to the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday, said the amount owed to Parliament through the irregular use of parliamentary travel vouchers has risen to R17-million. Previous figures provided by Parliament amounted to between R13-million and R14-million.
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/ 1 September 2004
Pharmacists on the Cape Peninsula closed shop on Wednesday following threats of arrest from customers angry that they are not charging prices laid down by law, following last week’s reintroduction of medicine-pricing regulations, a pharmacist said. ”We will stay closed until we get leave to appeal,” said one pharmacist.
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/ 1 September 2004
Shareholders of Metropolitan, one of South Africa’s top five life insurers, have voted overwhelmingly to approve the company’s proposed partnership with broad-based empowerment consortium Kagiso Trust Investments, thus paving the way for KTI to take ownership of a 10% stake in Metropolitan.
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/ 1 September 2004
The Airports Company South Africa has earmarked a further R3,58-billion for investment in infrastructure upgrades over the next five years. Projects will include measures to increase capacity and efficiencies at all airports, including the domestic airports in Kimberley, Bloemfontein and East London, the company said on Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2004
Two members of environmental action group Earthlife Africa climbed on top of the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday afternoon and then abseiled over the edge, unfurling a six-storey-high yellow banner saying "Don’t let big business rule the world".