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/ 20 November 2003
Former African National Congress intelligence operative Mo Shaik has kept a database of more than 880 suspected apartheid government spies, it was revealed on Thursday. He told the Hefer commission the ANC had investigated all these people during the liberation struggle as suspected informants.
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/ 20 November 2003
Zimbabwe’s finance minister on Thursday predicted the Southern African country’s economic crisis will deepen next year, with inflation hitting 700% and the economy continuing to shrink. Meanwhile, a two-day strike called by the country’s main labour union over the deteriorating economic situation failed to take off.
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/ 20 November 2003
Côte d’Ivoire’s journalists and press barons were urged on Monday to put past quarrels aside and work for peace as a Press Week for National Reconciliation and Peace formally got under way in the commercial capital, Abidjan. Ivorian newspapers have been strongly criticised for being excessively partisan.
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/ 20 November 2003
Zimbabwe has signed five African Union treaties, including pacts on human and women’s rights, corruption and the environment, the AU said on Thursday. The country’s permanent representative to the AU, Andrew Mtetwa, pledged his country’s ”appreciation to the AU for continued support”.
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/ 20 November 2003
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has cautioned that a <i>Jerusalem Post</i> article, under the headline "Terror warning for Israelis in South Africa", may be "misleading". The article reported a senior Israeli minister saying that terrorists intended to carry out attacks against Israeli and Western targets in South Africa.
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/ 20 November 2003
On Thursday Gauteng provincial transport minister Khabisi Mosunkutu announced further measures by his department to bring traffic and road-safety offenders to book. Six trucking companies, ”notorious” for violating the Road Traffic Act, have been summoned to appear before investigators.
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/ 20 November 2003
United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair stood united on Thursday on the war on terror and condemned Thursday’s bombings in Turkey. As many as 100 000 anti-war protesters were mobilising for a massive march on Parliament as they spoke.
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/ 20 November 2003
Zambia’s Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday launched a scathing attack on President Levy Mwanawasa’s government over the way the country’s new constitution is being developed. The church demanded that the new constitution be adopted by a conference rather than by Parliament.
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/ 20 November 2003
The environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature warned on Thursday that illegal driftnets cast by Moroccan, French and Italian fishermen continue to kill thousands of dolphins in the Mediterranean each year. An estimated 3Â 000 to 4Â 000 dolphins are caught annually in the Alboran Sea off the coast of Morocco.
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/ 20 November 2003
An unidentified caller claimed responsibility for the two bomb blasts in Istanbul on behalf of al-Qaeda and a Turkish underground Islamic extremist group, Anatolia news agency reported. The person said in a phone call to the agency that the attacks were a joint attack by the two groups.