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/ 1 December 2003
Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula did not attend an anti-crime march in Johannesburg on Sunday because the demonstration had a political motive, his office said on Monday. ”The march was clearly intended to embarrass the government,” said Leslie Xinwa, Nqakula’s spokesperson.
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/ 1 December 2003
Acting City Press newspaper editor Wally Mbhele published a front page apology to National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka on Sunday, saying evidence before the Hefer commission left little doubt that there is no credible substance to reports suggesting that he was or could have been an apartheid spy.
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/ 1 December 2003
South Africa’s University of the Western Cape (UWC) has received funding of R1-million to be used to upgrade its infrastructure and finance ongoing training and development initiatives of its department of science and biotechnology from global bioinformatics company Electric Genetics.
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/ 1 December 2003
On World Aids Day, South African opposition party the Independent Democrats has urged politicians to take a public HIV/Aids test. Politicians in the country are not setting an example, the party has argued.
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/ 1 December 2003
American soldiers killed 46 Iraqis and captured eight in three repelled ambushes on US convoys in the central Iraqi city of Samarra on Sunday. At least 18 attackers, five US soldiers and a civilian travelling with the troops were wounded in the deadliest gun battles since the end of the war.
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/ 1 December 2003
South African business owners remain optimistic about the economy and profitability despite the rand’s strength, a new survey shows. The findings of the annual Grant Thornton International Business Owners Survey show a significant swing to optimism about the economy among business owners in 26 countries across the world.
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/ 1 December 2003
Still waiting for long-promised reparations payments, members of an apartheid victims support group disrupted a healing ceremony held in their honour on Sunday by lawmakers and religious leaders. They forced their way into a VIP tent after organisers told them to sit outside.
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/ 1 December 2003
Hundreds of fans were lined up outside Wellington’s Embassy Theatre at dawn on Monday, more than 12 hours before the world premiere of the The Return of the King. Film critics have seen a preview of the film after agreeing not to review it until December 8 following American and European premieres.
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/ 1 December 2003
From his makeup to his music, there is nothing Marilyn Manson likes more than to shock. But behind the pose, has he really got anything to say — and why does he prefer living under Bush?
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/ 1 December 2003
Esther is one of the least fortunate children on earth, but one of the luckiest of those, although she can’t know it. At first glance she looks to be two or three years old, but her eyes are too large, her head is too big. She is five years old, and although she has not been tested, the clinical officer has no doubt she has Aids.
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