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/ 19 January 2004
A British newspaper company announced a deal on Sunday with press baron Conrad Black to take over his controlling interest in Hollinger, the Toronto-based parent company of newspaper publisher Hollinger International. Hollinger International said it was removing Black as chairman and suing him to recover more than -million
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/ 19 January 2004
The University of Natal has come to the rescue of a matriculant who, despite passing with four distinctions last year, had resigned himself to being another unemployment statistic. When Julius Mojapelo of Gauteng received his results in December last year, he realised that he had inadvertently forfeited his exemption.
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/ 19 January 2004
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana on Sunday issued a stern warning to the construction sector following the death of three workers in an accident at a construction site in Johannesburg. "We will continue with our campaign to stamp out defaulters until … safety is a priority for every employer," Mdladlana said.
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/ 19 January 2004
Hours after up to 40 000 Muslims marched against a planned ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools, a car-bomb attack on a newly appointed prefect of Algerian origin dramatically underlined the scale of France’s problem in assimilating its immigrant Muslim community.
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/ 19 January 2004
The Democratic Alliance and the New National Party both called for the suspension of the South African ambassador to Indonesia, Norman Mashabane, on Sunday. The organisations also said Mashabane should not attend an international symposium on gender sustainable development in Indonesia in September.
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/ 19 January 2004
African National Congress chairperson Mosiua Lekota let slip on Sunday that the national elections are to be held in April. ”Let us go to the elections in April.” Lekota told a crowd of about 15 000 people at the Northern Cape launch of his party’s election manifesto in Kimberley.
IFP: SA needs a democratic alternative
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/ 19 January 2004
Police detained a South African judge at the World Social Forum after another participant of the anti-globalisation conference alleged that he raped her in his hotel room, police said on Monday. The 27-year-old woman delegate, also from South Africa, told police she was raped on Saturday night.
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/ 19 January 2004
The United States and Britain are to open their first direct negotiations on Monday with United Nations nuclear inspectors over how to scrap Libya’s secret nuclear bomb project, amid a row over who should be in charge.
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/ 19 January 2004
Public service announcements featuring three “jive-talking, gaffe-prone condoms” that were produced by a group of volunteers from various Ottawa, Canada, production companies are airing up to 20 times a day on South African television, the <i>Ottawa Citizen reports</i>.