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/ 5 February 2004
Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock and Pretoria local prison head Nick Baloyi were accused on Thursday of fabricating evidence to discredit a witness before the Jali commission of inquiry into prison mismanagement. Baloyi was accused of asking a prisoner to give false testimony and De Kock was also implicated.
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/ 5 February 2004
Britain’s defence minister on Thursday played down a spiralling row over pre-war information on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction after Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted he was in the dark about a key piece of intelligence. Blair on Wednesday said he had not been clear about what sort of weapons Iraq was alleged to possess.
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/ 5 February 2004
More than 10Â 000 birds died mysteriously in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, dropping like rain from the sky, state media reported on Thursday. Farmers and other witnesses in Sangongdian village in Taizhou city saw flocks of bramble finch suddenly fall from the sky on Tuesday.
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/ 5 February 2004
Five people hugged each other as their apartment building collapsed on Monday, crushing them to death in central Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday. Relief workers struggled to separate their bodies to be able to pull them out of the debris of the building. At least 38 people died in the collapse.
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/ 5 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was under pressure in noon trade on Thursday, with the stronger rand weighing on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. The decline extended the bourse’s losing streak into its eighth day. At midday the rand was trading at R6,86 per dollar.
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/ 5 February 2004
The investigation into the appearance of the deadly poison ricin on Capitol Hill this week and earlier in two ominous letters is focusing on a mysterious ”Fallen Angel” who threatens to use ricin as a weapon unless new United States trucking regulations are rolled back.
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/ 5 February 2004
World number-one rough diamond miner De Beers sees a third consecutive year of earnings growth in 2004 on the back of good global growth, De Beers MD Gary Ralfe said on Thursday. During 2004 De Beers sees a 7% increase in its diamond output, after increasing output by 9% in 2003 from 2002.
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/ 5 February 2004
Although South Africa has scaled up social spending over the past decade, considerable additional funding is needed to improve delivery to the country’s rural poor, a new study has found. One of the key challenges is beefing up service delivery in rural communities such as providing water and electricity.
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/ 5 February 2004
Sierra Leone this week completed a five-year programme to disarm and rehabilitate more than 70Â 000 combatants who took part in the country’s brutal civil war. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah officially dissolved the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration at a ceremony on Tuesday.
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/ 5 February 2004
The remains of Karabo Gwala, the three-year-old boy who had disappeared down a sewerage hole in Soweto while playing on Monday, were found on Thursday morning. A family representative identified the body by clothing after it had been found at the Olifantsvlei waste treatment plant.
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