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In what critics call a delay tactic, San Francisco is taking California to court on grounds that its ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. The city, which filed the lawsuit late on Thursday, has sanctioned more than 2 900 gay unions since it began defying state law last week.
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The African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party delivered messages of peace as they signed a code of conduct in Durban on Friday with 11 other parties contesting the April elections in KwaZulu-Natal. Several cases of political clashes have recently been reported between the ANC and IFP in KwaZulu-Natal.
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New National Party leaders and delegates from across the country turned out in force at the NNP’s national election manifesto launch in Stellenbosch on Friday. The launch followed the party’s federal council meeting earlier, where incumbent leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk was unanimously re-elected to the post.
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/ 20 February 2004
Bird flu’s grip on Asia tightened on Friday with new outbreaks in China as well as Thailand where the deadly virus was also detected in a leopard, a tiger and two domestic cats. China reported two new confirmed cases of bird flu, bringing the tally to 48 outbreaks in more than half its provincial-level regions.
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/ 20 February 2004
The 2004 Budget shows little evidence of the displacement of social expenditure by the cost of the arms deal.
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/ 20 February 2004
Golf courses must be made into family centres and not the exclusive preserve of men, Deputy Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development Cheryl Gillwald said at a gender conference in Pretoria on Friday. Gillwald was hosting Swiss Foreign Affairs Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey at a gender equality luncheon.
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/ 20 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki said the 2004/05 Budget, tabled in Parliament earlier this week, takes South Africans a step closer to realising their dreams of development and prosperity. Writing in the weekly online publication ANC Today, Mbeki said the Budget has provided for increased expenditure to meet the needs of the people.
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/ 20 February 2004
Pharmaceutical wholesalers proposed on Friday a gradual reduction in the manufacturer’s exit price of medicines instead of the immediate 50% slash the government wants to come into effect by May 2. However, this alone will not enable the industry to survive, the National Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers said.
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/ 20 February 2004
Johannesburg serial rapist Fanwell Khumalo was on Friday found guilty on 23 of the 126 charges he faces — and Judge Max Labe is to continue delivering his judgement on Monday. On Friday the chef was found guilty of nine rapes, eight kidnappings, four indecent assaults, one attempted rape and a robbery.
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/ 20 February 2004
Vera Chirwa is a prominent human rights activist in Malawi, a prison rapporteur for the African Union -– and someone who was imprisoned for speaking out against authoritarian rule under former head of state Hastings Kamuzu Banda. But, this pedigree wasn’t enough to earn her a shot at Malawi’s presidency during the May elections.