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/ 19 November 2003
At least 53 people have been hacked to death by Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in northern Uganda’s Lira district, a Roman Catholic priest said on Tuesday. ”Thirteen people were killed in Ngeta, 10 in Ewal, 14 in Akangi and 16 in Angura, all areas in Lira district,” said Roman Catholic missionary Father Sebat Ayele.
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/ 19 November 2003
Zimbabwe’s annual rate of inflation, the highest in the world, soared to new levels, reaching 526% in October, according to figures issued on Tuesday by the state Central Statistical Office (CSO).
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/ 19 November 2003
Three students in Sydney have been convicted of swapping music files over the internet, in the first case of its kind in the world. The students, Charles Kok Hau Ng (20) Peter Tran (19) and Tommy Le (21) pleaded guilty to 68 copyright infringement charges.
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/ 19 November 2003
Massachusetts is poised to become the only US state to allow gay marriage following a legal ruling on Tuesday which will have widespread political ramifications ahead of next year’s presidential election. The state’s Republican governor, Mitt Romney, immediately criticised the ruling, saying: ”Marriage is an institution between a man and a woman.”
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/ 19 November 2003
Marumo Moerane, counsel for National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, said on Tuesday that a report which concluded that his client was "most probably" an apartheid spy was factually flawed.
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/ 19 November 2003
Since the new millennium, a succession of women film-makers have entered the formerly male territory of sado-masochism and screen violence. Is this a sign that women have finally thrown off their shackles? (Or put them on, if that’s your thing?) Now women can do anything men can do both in front of and behind the camera.
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/ 19 November 2003
If business is to partner the government in promoting its socio-economic goals of job creation and economic growth, it wants a hand in writing the script. The government’s enthusiastic endorsement of the new unified business structures signals its desire for business to speak with one voice.
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/ 19 November 2003
Sam Buthelezi, the national president of the Foundation for African Business and Consumer Services and the first vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry South Africa, believes the new business unity structures are a vital step in the drection of bringing more black South Africans into the economic mainstream. He speaks to Ciaran Ryan.
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/ 19 November 2003
In the past seven years former street child Mandla Njokwane (22) has seen and done things that most young men his age can hardly imagine. Last weekend the power of his imagination propelled him to a new dream when he won the information communciation technology industry African Achievers Youth Innovation Award for his computer skills.