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International concern was growing on Thursday after Rwandan President Paul Kagame announced that his country’s troops will launch an operation in pursuit of Rwandan Hutu rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a letter to the African Union, Kagame wrote that he hoped the operation would not last longer than two weeks and that it would target only the rebels.
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/ 2 December 2004
A United Nations observer patrol encountered what it believed to be 100 Rwandan soldiers at a town in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking the first UN-reported sightings since Rwanda threatened to send its forces against Rwandan Hutu rebels. The UN Security Council set closed-door talks for Thursday on the crisis threatening to reawaken central Africa’s devastating five-year, six-nation war.
Incursion sparks world concern
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/ 2 December 2004
Three senior staffers have been suspended from the Eastern Cape Development Corporation and R30-million has been slashed from the parastatal’s budget. The disciplinery action was ordered by provincial minister for economic affairs, environment and tourism André de Wet. However, an auditor general’s report — one of two reports on which the minister says he based his decision to suspend the staff members — appears not to exist.
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/ 2 December 2004
South Africa’s Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has called for greater "legitimate" government involvement in the governance of the internet. The minister told the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) meeting in Cape Town that: "We believe that legitimate governments as the true representatives of their country, should have an increased voice in the governance of the internet."
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=126444">Convergence Bill set for January</a>
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/ 2 December 2004
Kanartel, the consortium led by the UAE’s Etisalat, will soon begin work on Sudan’s second fixed-line telephone network and plans to provide 500 000 lines in the first year of its operation, Etisalat CEO Mohammed Omran said in a statement Wednesday.
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/ 2 December 2004
South Africa’s long-awaited Convergence Bill will be put to Cabinet in January once issues affecting internet broadcasting have been sorted out in the drafting process of the legislation, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe Casaburri said on Thursday. She said her director general was still "not very happy" that the issue of internet broadcasting had not been fully addressed.
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/ 2 December 2004
With the election of former environmental minister Valli Moosa – aka "action man" – as president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), important environmental issues are likely to be pushed on to the international agenda. For the next four years Moosa will be the "global voice of conservation", as he told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> last week after his election at the IUCN conference in Bangkok.
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/ 2 December 2004
The South African Cabinet on Wednesday approved a charter outlining seven guaranteed rights for victims of crime. These included the right to information, to assistance and ”where applicable and possible” to restitution and compensation, government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe told reporters.
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/ 2 December 2004
A movie is to be made about the life of deceased former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje. Frans Cronje, the older brother of Hansie Cronje who died in a plane crash in George, 500km east of Cape Town two years ago, announced on Wednesday that the Cronje family had authorised a full-length feature film on the life of the late cricketer.
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A toxicologist will study the medical records of 23 current and former Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa employees to determine their state of health, Earthlife Africa said on Wednesday. The organisation has expressed concern there was ”irregularities” in the way in which workers’ medical files had been handled. This comes after a former Koeberg worker, Ron Lockwood, contracted leukaemia.