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/ 26 November 2003
The AT&T company has been selected by the Nelson Mandela Foundation to provide a tollfree telephone service in the United States and Canada for the organisation’s ”46664: Give 1 minute of your life to Aids” campaign.
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/ 26 November 2003
Health authorities raised the death toll in an Ebola outbreak in the northwest Republic of Congo to 18 on Tuesday, and said they had imposed a quarantine on the hardest-hit village. Health workers are following 164 people believed to have come into contact with those infected, the Health Ministry said.
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/ 26 November 2003
Sharon van Wyk visits Singita’s Lebombo Lodge in the heart of the Kruger National Park. The lodge is a 40-minute drive away up in the Lebombo mountains, from which it gets its name, in the south central area of the park overlooking the ephemeral N’wanetsi river, which means "shining waters" in the local Shangaan tongue.
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/ 26 November 2003
The Pezula Group has signed a management contract with Southern Sun Hotels — the largest hotel group in the southern hemisphere — for the multimillion-rand luxury Pezula Resort hotel, situated in the heart of the Garden Route. An all-suite deluxe boutique hotel, it will be the flagship of the newly launched Southern Sun Collection.
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/ 26 November 2003
Former City Press editor Vusi Mona is scheduled to testify before the Hefer commission on Wednesday about allegations against National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. Mona will be asked about a controversial off-the-record meeting that Ngcuka allegedly called with a group of black editors a few months ago.
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/ 26 November 2003
The United States military has paid out ,5-million to Iraqi civilians in response to a wave of negligence and wrongful death claims filed against US soldiers. Families have come forward with accounts of how US soldiers shot dead or seriously wounded unarmed Iraqi civilians with no apparent cause.
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/ 26 November 2003
Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans — the closest living relatives of humanity — could vanish from the wild within 50 years, say United Nations leaders meeting in Paris on Wednesday. They have appealed for -million to save the world’s great apes from extinction.
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/ 26 November 2003
A few days before his assassination, United States president John F Kennedy was planning a meeting with Cuban officials to negotiate the normalisation of relations with Fidel Castro, according to a newly declassified tape and White House documents.
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/ 26 November 2003
Some months ago I wrote about the proposed N2 Wild Coast toll road to run from Libode to Port Edward (Where to the N2, January 24 to 30). The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism is now at a point of making a decision and once again I ask why a toll road is necessary, writes Geoffrey Davies.
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/ 26 November 2003
Countless reports are predicting double-digit growth for online advertising. And now Red Herring, one of the bibles of the industry during the dotcom boom, is being reborn under the direction of Frenchman Alex Vieux. Google share auction and the relaunch of Red Herring magazine point to a revival of the industry’s fortunes