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Zambia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that former president Frederick Chiluba’s institute be sold to cover bills from constructors and other firms that supplied building materials. The former president began building the Frederick Chiluba Institute for Democracy and Industrial Relations when he was head of state but construction had yet to be completed when he left office in 2001.
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South Africa A cricket squad members escaped unscathed in a head-on collision on the road between Dambulla and Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Tuesday. The squad were travelling in a bus from practice when the accident occurred. According to coach Vincent Barnes a truck loaded with wood smashed into the bus they were travelling in.
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British Defence Secretary John Reid called on Tuesday for thousands of extra Nato troops to be sent to Afghanistan as the alliance expands into areas harbouring Taliban fighters and drug traffickers. Reid made the remarks before departing for an informal meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation defence ministers in Berlin, who are expected to discuss United States and Nato deployment plans for next year in Afghanistan.
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/ 13 September 2005
North Korea vowed on Tuesday to keep pushing for the right to peaceful atomic energy, putting it on a collision course with the United States as six-way talks on its nuclear weapons drive resumed. Repeating the demand that broke up the talks five weeks ago, the Stalinist state said it would not bow on the issue to Washington, which rejects nuclear reactors for Pyongyang.
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A survey has revealed that over 20% of KwaZulu-Natal youth have had suicidal thoughts, a suicide prevention congress heard in Durban on Tuesday. KwaZulu-Natal education MEC Ina Cronje said the results from the survey indicated that ”at a national level 24,6% of learners indicated that they felt so sad or had such hopeless feelings that they wanted to stop living”.
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/ 13 September 2005
Civil society, business, labour and political parties are set to participate in South Africa’s evaluation under the African Peer Review Mechanism. Representatives of various sectors of society met in Pretoria on Tuesday to discuss their role in the review, which is expected to cost the country about R8-million.
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A Dutch citizen living on a smallholding north of Pretoria and his South African wife were arrested on Tuesday for various charges related to dagga, police said. ”The man from Holland and his South African wife had established a dagga plantation on their Hammanskraal smallholding from dagga seeds smuggled in from Holland,” said Constable Brenda Kgafela.
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/ 13 September 2005
A severe jet fuel shortage has forced the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to cut its deliveries in southern Sudan by half at the height of the hunger season. ”This could not have happened at a worse time for the people of Sudan,” said WFP country director Ramiro Lopes da Silva.
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/ 13 September 2005
”I thought I’m going to Lüderitz. I got to Vioolsdrif,” laments skipper Arthur Vaughan, who, after being abandoned at the Namibian border post, hitchhiked almost 200km back to Port Nolloth on the West Coast. Vaughan was meant to go and work on South Atlantic Fisheries Company ships based in Lüderitz while the company tried to secure a licence for them to operate in South African waters.
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/ 13 September 2005
A core of 30 to 40 taxi warlords hold key positions at ranks, and have sufficient clout among ordinary members to give orders to assassinate rivals and collect money for war chests. The committee of inquiry into taxi violence in Cape Town, headed by advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, heard how this group has turned taxi violence in the region into a reign of terror.