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/ 21 November 2003
Tribal militants armed with automatic weapons have seized two oil platforms in the offshore waters of Nigeria belonging to the oil giant ChevronTexaco, taking 18 workers hostage.
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/ 21 November 2003
Rwandan police on Thursday seized copies of the country’s only independent newspaper and arrested its director and at least two of his journalists on charges of libel and ”divisionism.”
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/ 21 November 2003
The minister returns… Mike van Graan unravels the plot of The Days of our Arts.
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/ 21 November 2003
Tensions in the Roodefontein corruption trial boiled over on Friday when, in a heated exchange, Scorpions prosecutor Bruce Morrison ordered former Western Cape premier Peter Marais to behave in court.
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/ 21 November 2003
Richard Curtis’s Britain is a strange place where middle-class, floppy-haired folk go in search of love — usually in the snow on Christmas Eve. Mark Lawson reports.
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/ 21 November 2003
After swearing never to give another public lecture, JM Coetzee, this year’s Nobel laureate for literature, wondered aloud why he was speaking in front of a crowded auditorium. The 63-year-old South African said little to the crowd at the New York Public Library on Thursday night.
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/ 21 November 2003
All remaining problems between the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and Gallo Music over the live recording of workers’ songs have been resolved, Cosatu has announced. The Mail & Guardian reported on Friday that Cosatu accused Gallo of trying to ”rip it off” over the venture.
Song and dance over Cosatu recording
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/ 21 November 2003
Cash-in-transit robber Collen Chauke died of natural causes on Friday, the Department of Correctional Services said. Chauke, who was serving a 20-year sentence in C-Max, had been in the Kalafong Hospital for the past week, said departmental spokesperson Isaac Mosiane.
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/ 21 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was flat just before noon on Friday after a lacklustre morning. Dealers said that the market was characterised by lack of interest and that after the JSE’s sharp fall on Thursday following the bomb blasts in Istanbul, people were taking to the sidelines.
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/ 21 November 2003
The rand’s strength over the past two years might have been more as a result of the currency’s association with other emerging market and commodity-based currencies than with South African specific fundamentals, according to research published by South African commercial bank Absa.