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/ 14 October 2004
The trial of 19 of people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, due to resume next week, will be postponed following the death of a defence lawyer, the president of the court said on Wednesday. Fernando Mico Nsue, the lawyer for eight South Africans said to be implicated in the coup plot in the oil-rich West African state, died on Tuesday of malaria at the age of 62.
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/ 14 October 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange headed south at the opening on Thursday, led by heavyweight dual-listed stocks. However gold stocks bounced after being sold down sharply on Wednesday. By 9,15am, the all share index was off 0,36%. Industrials eased 0,22%.
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/ 14 October 2004
The first witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial, Independent Democrats deputy leader Themba Sono, was in the witness box in the Durban High Court on Thursday. Sono said he met Shaik in 1996 through a colleague.
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/ 14 October 2004
On a trip to South Africa last week, British environmentalist George Monbiot spoke to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about his ideas for a just and democratic world regime. Aimed at breaking the economic and political hegemony of the great powers — principally the United States — Monbiot’s proposed dispensation would rest on the four pillars of a directly elected world parliament, a democratised United Nations, a fair trade organisation and an international clearing union.
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/ 14 October 2004
More than R16-million has been paid out to claimants who suffer from asbestos poisoning, the Asbestos Relief Trust said on Wednesday. More than 100 claims had been paid out, while 150 more were ready to be finalised, chairperson of the trust, John Doidge, said in a statement.
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/ 14 October 2004
Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s name came up repeatedly as the corruption and fraud trial of his financial adviser Schabir Shaik got under way in earnest in the Durban High Court on Wednesday. Prosecutor Billy Downer explained in how the state planned to explore the complex web of financial relationships between Zuma and Shaik.
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/ 14 October 2004
Trade unions in Nigeria on Wednesday threatened to extend a three-day general strike which has shut down much of the country and driven world oil prices to a record high. The stoppage was due to end on Thursday but labour leaders said it would continue if the government used heavy-handed tactics against strikers.
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/ 14 October 2004
In the open fields around Caserta, north of Naples, large herds of buffalo graze on lush grass, and tobacco plants tower along the roadsides. On the face of it these fertile, sun-baked Italian plains look like ideal farmland, but the soil here hides a poisonous secret.
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/ 14 October 2004
United States investigators preparing war crimes trials against Saddam Hussein and his deputies have uncovered the bodies of hundreds of Kurdish men, women and children in the first forensic exhumation of a mass grave in Iraq. The grave site, in Hatra, near the ancient city of Nineveh, is thought to hold the bodies of several thousand Kurds in nine separate trenches.
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