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/ 7 December 2003
In the biggest sting operation of its kind in the history of the internet, a German-led sweep this autumn smashed more than 30 child pornography rings and netted some 26 500 suspects in 61 countries. The secretly coordinated raids marked one of the most impressive victories against internet crime to date.
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/ 7 December 2003
South Africa won their third-ever tournament in the International Rugby Board’s Sevens series Friday when they defeated New Zealand 33-26 in a classic final at the Emirates Air Dubai Sevens tournament.
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/ 7 December 2003
Favourites Kaizer Chiefs won the 2003 Coca-Cola Cup with a harder than expected 2-0 win over Premier Soccer League rookies Silver Stars in an uninspiring final played at the FNB stadium on Saturday. Chiefs took home the R2-million winner’s cheque while Stars earned their biggest ever pay day by claiming the runners up purse of R1-million.
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/ 6 December 2003
South Africa and Lesotho’s programmes for destroying small arms could be adapted to fit the needs of other countries throughout the continent, a new study has found. South Africa has joined a small group of countries who have taken seriously a 1997 UN recommendation that surplus arms be destroyed.
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/ 6 December 2003
The Hefer commission, trundling to its predictable conclusion, has the whiff of a show trial about it — a legal circus designed to discredit National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka’s accusers, rather than to investigate seriously whether he was an apartheid agent or abused his office.
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/ 6 December 2003
Jeanne Tabaro is one of the chosen ones. She has Aids, she is poor, she lives in Africa, which is to say she should soon die. But her smile indicates a different fate: Jeanne expects to live. The 41-year-old mother of four recently started receiving free treatment with anti-Aids drugs which could keep her alive and healthy for decades, an option denied to all but a handful of the 30-million Africans with HIV.
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/ 6 December 2003
For a president who invaded and occupied two foreign countries in his first term, the question being asked at the White House was: where next? The moon, apparently. With election season underway, George Bush’s advisers are looking for a grand scheme for the president to launch, to help reinforce his image as a decisive leader with big ideas.
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/ 6 December 2003
Jacques Chirac hinted strongly yesterday that France will soon introduce legislation banning Muslim girls from wearing headscarves to school, saying most French people saw ”something aggressive” in the veil and that the secular state could not tolerate ”ostentatious signs of religious proselytism”.
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/ 6 December 2003
Zimbabwe’s ruling party came out in strong support of President Robert Mugabe’s threats to quit the Commonwealth, with Vice President Joseph Msika saying ”to hell” with the Commonwealth, from which the country has been suspended. Meanwhile, Commonwealth leaders were on Friday night struggling to remain united in their tough stance against Mugabe’s regime.
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/ 6 December 2003
Nine leading pharmaceutical companies have agreed to pay a South African business regulator a total of R18-million to settle a complaint alleging anti-competitive trading practices, officials said on Friday. The settlement brings to an end three years of negotiations and court actions.