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/ 24 February 2004
As Zimbabwe marks the fourth anniversary of its land redistribution programme, there is concern about the impact this is having on the country’s environment. Many of the peasant farmers who were resettled on farm land forcibly acquired from white owners are starting to harvesting other resources instead.
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/ 24 February 2004
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has pledged its support for a one-day strike in Zimbabwe organised for Wednesday, spokesperson Patrick Craven said in a statement. Craven said on Tuesday that Cosatu supports the stayaway and the demands of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.
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/ 24 February 2004
The South African economy grew by 1,9% last year, compared with a 3,6% expansion recorded in 2002, Statistics SA reported on Tuesday. Contributors to increased economic activity last year included transport and communication, finance, real estate and business services, and wholesale trade, retail, hotel and restaurant industries.
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/ 24 February 2004
The United Nations Congo mission is investigating reports of a series of massacres of about 100 civilians and seven soldiers by Mayi-Mayi fighters in southeast Congo, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday. The killings allegedly were carried out since January at the town of Kitenge in Katanga province.
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/ 24 February 2004
The National Treasury on Monday repeated its warning to those who claim tax against car allowances to stop using its ”deemed” expense schedule as a means of reducing their tax obligations. Treasury tax director Martin Grote said the schedule was a ”huge vehicle for people to actually reduce their tax payment”.
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/ 24 February 2004
Haiti’s rebel leader said on Tuesday he is seeking to re-establish the army that was disbanded after ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991. With the rebels threatening to attack the capital of Port-au-Prince, the United States has tried to broker a last-ditch peace plan that does not require Aristide to resign.
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/ 24 February 2004
A boycott of the vaccine for polio spread to two more northern Nigerian Islamic states on Tuesday, United Nations Children’s Fund officials said, hampering a massive drive to immunise 63-million children in 10 African nations against a polio outbreak.
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/ 24 February 2004
The South African Council of Churches has written an urgent letter to the presidency requesting President Thabo Mbeki send a delegation to Harare to help restore talks between Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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/ 24 February 2004
United Nations Special Envoy Lloyd Axworthy expressed disappointment on Monday after failing to visit Eritrea at the start of his peacekeeping mission. He described Eritrea as the ”missing voice” in his efforts to overcome the stalled three-year peace process between it and neighbouring Ethiopia.
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/ 24 February 2004
The world’s largest diamond producer, De Beers, is involved with talks with the United States Justice Department to settle charges of price fixing levelled against it nearly 50 years ago and return to the US market, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.