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/ 4 December 2003
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party warned on Thursday that the country could run out of food — including vital food aid supplied by donors — by the end of January next year.
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/ 4 December 2003
The battle for the heart of the official opposition Democratic Alliance has begun with old National Party adherents, old Democratic Party followers, and former coloured Labour Party interests fighting it out for key positions on the Western Cape provincial lists for the legislature and Parliament.
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/ 4 December 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair headed to a summit of Britain and its former colonies on Thursday with a message that Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe has yet to earn reinstatement to the bloc — while two African leaders pledged to campaign for Mugabe’s return.
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/ 4 December 2003
A Pretoria mother who told her 11-year-old daughter that being raped by her stepfather was ”not so bad” as she had also been raped as a child, was sent to jail on Thursday for 17 years. The mother testified that she had held on to her daughter’s leg while her husband raped the child because the child was trembling.
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/ 4 December 2003
The correctional services department needs to act now to combat Aids in prisons to prevent a national crisis in a few years, New National Party MP Adriaan van Jaarsveld said on Thursday
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/ 4 December 2003
Anglo American Farms said on Thursday it has, "after a rigorous two-year process", sold the Boschendal wine farm, located outside Franschhoek in South Africa’s winelands, to a consortium of investors with a 30% empowerment stake for a total consideration of R323-million.
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/ 4 December 2003
A weather alert was lifted on Thursday after floods and storms ravaged southern France, leaving five dead. Around the country’s second city Marseille, which was declared a disaster zone on Wednesday as a result of torrential rain and winds of up to 150kph, thousands of people were returning to their homes.
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/ 4 December 2003
At least 25 people have died of the incurable Ebola virus in the latest outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever in northwestern Congo. So far 47 cases have been identified of Ebola, which is characterised by high fever, diarrhoea and bleeding from the nose and gums, and can induce massive internal haemorrhages.
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/ 4 December 2003
The Business Confidence Index of the South African Chamber of Business increased further to 119,7 in November on the back of the strong rand and dropping inflation, after registering 116,5 in October. The index is now 14 points above last year’s November level and is a fresh record high for the index.