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The trial of four high-ranking officers in Rwanda’s army during the 1994 genocide resumed on Monday before the United Nations tribunal trying the suspected main perpetrators of the slaughter. Dubbed ”the military trial”, it is seen as one of the most important before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
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/ 6 September 2004
Employers can no longer retrench workers to make way for better-skilled employees without making adequate training opportunities available, the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) said on Monday. On Friday, a judge found that South African Breweries (SAB) had wrongly dismissed 115 Fawu members in 2001.
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/ 6 September 2004
Eastern Cape finance minister Enoch Godongwana was fired on Monday, Premier Nosimo Balindlela’s office said. ”Both the suspension of the finance superintendent general, Monde Tom, and Godongwana’s dismissal come after a probe into financial irregularities in that department,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 6 September 2004
A massive car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Fallujah on Monday, killing seven United States marines and wounding several others, a US military official said. The strength of the blast sent the engine from the vehicle used in the bombing flying ”a good distance” from the site, said the official.
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/ 6 September 2004
Former Gauteng finance minister Jabu Moleketi was not involved in finalising the details of a contract that allegedly contravenes the Public Finance Management Act, the province’s current finance minister said on Monday. ”The former MEC was briefed, but not involved in the final shareholders’ agreement that established the company [Capstone 518],” he said.
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/ 6 September 2004
The government has no intention of building low-cost homes in upmarket suburbs, as claimed in a <i>Sunday Times</i> report at the weekend, Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu said on Monday. She described the newspaper’s front-page headline — "Low-cost houses for elite suburbs" — as "unfortunate" and "regrettable".
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/ 6 September 2004
Nigerian security services raided the offices of an independent weekly newspaper critical of the government, arresting one of its staff and seizing computers, its deputy editor said on Sunday. ”We have been exposing corruption in the government and they are not at all happy with us,” the paper’s deputy editor said.
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/ 6 September 2004
Peace talks between Darfur’s rebel groups and the Sudanese government were stalled on Monday over the issue of disarmament, as an African Union-brokered conference entered its third week, AU officials said. ”The two sides are sticking to their hardline positions,” said the commander of the AU ceasefire monitoring team in Darfur.
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/ 6 September 2004
Iraqi security officers stormed al-Jazeera’s Baghdad offices and sealed the newsroom with red wax at the weekend after the United States-backed interim government banned the Arabic television station from broadcasting in the country. The raid followed a decision by the prime minister, Ayad Allawi, to close the station temporarily in August because of its apparent failure to support the US occupation.
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At least 90 people were killed and 77 were missing in torrential storms lashing south-west China, disaster relief officials said on Monday. At least 66 were killed and 50 were missing in Sichuan province while 24 people died and 27 were missing in Chongqing municipality.