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Hundreds of protesters staged their own welcome for United States President George Bush on Wednesday with a noisy and colourful mock royal procession in London that included a pink ”love tank” and demonstrators dressed up as United Nations weapons inspectors and Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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/ 19 November 2003
A comprehensive HIV and Aids treatment plan was approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. It seeks to provide at least one anti-retroviral service point in every health district within a year. A long-term aim is to give all South Africans requiring treatment access to the programme in their local municipal area within five years.
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/ 19 November 2003
Former Stimela lead vocalist Ray Phiri was involved in a car accident that led to the death of a woman passenger — identified as his wife — on Tuesday night, Mpumalanga police said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 November 2003
At least 51 people sustained serious and minor burn wounds during a gas explosion at Ratanga Junction theme park in Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police reported. The blast occurred moments after a chef noticed a gas leak in one of the kitchens.
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/ 19 November 2003
The strong rand pulled the rug up from under the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa on Wednesday, sending stocks tumbling, with those at the top end of the market being hardest hit. While gold and platinum counters were boosted by higher precious metals prices, the rampant currency severely pared their gains.
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/ 19 November 2003
South African trade union Solidarity is consulting its legal advisers in an effort to decide what action to take against the University of South Africa (Unisa). The trade union said on Wednesday Unisa has refused it recognition despite the fact that it already has three times as many members than the minimum requirement set by the university.
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/ 19 November 2003
Under a slate-grey sky, and within the relatively safe confines of Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday offered United States President George Bush a spectacular state welcome to Britain complete with a brass band, grenadier guards in bearskin hats and a 41-gun salute.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23792">London protesters mock Bush</a>
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/ 19 November 2003
Local polling in Mozambique started slowly on Wednesday as voters queued to cast their ballots in the first municipal elections contested by a former rebel group. The Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) party is participating in local elections for the first time since independence from Portugal in 1975.
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/ 19 November 2003
Former security policeman Gideon Nieuwoudt was added on Thursday to the list of accusers of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. Ngcuka’s spokesperson, Sipho Ngwema, confirmed that the national prosecuting authority, headed by Ngcuka, was investigating Nieuwoudt, whom the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had refused amnesty.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=23770">Maharaj ‘not sure’ about spy claim</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23757">Mo Shaik’s report ‘factually flawed'</a>