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/ 18 November 2003
Former Western Cape premier Peter Marais intervened directly to ensure provincial environment officials made a decision on the Roodefontein golf estate development, the regional court in George heard on Tuesday. Marais and David Malatsi are accused of being bribed to smooth the way for approval of the project.
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/ 18 November 2003
Zimbabwe police arrested scores of trade unionists and rights activists on Tuesday as they gathered to stage protests against alleged rights abuses and the sky-rocketing cost of living in Zimbabwe. Protesters held running battles with police. ”Many of us are badly wounded by baton sticks,” a protester said.
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/ 18 November 2003
As a pastime it has thrilled Britons and tourists for more than a century but feeding pigeons in London’s famous Trafalgar Square is now illegal — a move that has angered bird lovers but delighted the capital’s controversial mayor. The moves are part of a £25-million facelift of the central London landmark.
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/ 18 November 2003
The World Health Organisation confirmed on Tuesday that 11 people who died recently in northwestern Congo had been infected with the Ebola virus and 105 more people are under surveillance in case they develop the highly infectious disease, for which there is currently no cure.
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/ 18 November 2003
Former transport minister Mac Maharaj on Tuesday dismissed the Hefer commission’s changed terms of reference. He denied that he ever accused National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka of abusing his powers due to past obligations to the apartheid regime.
‘Mo Shaik fingered Ngcuka’
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/ 18 November 2003
A former first lady and the current New York senator, Hillary Clinton (56) is as popular as she is divisive. With nine candidates standing for the Democratic presidential nomination, polls continue to show Clinton as the favourite. The trouble is, she is not one of the nine.
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/ 18 November 2003
In an unprecedented move, President Robert Mugabe’s government has refused burial at Heroes’ Acre to former president Canaan Sodindo Banana, who died last week in London after a long illness, an official spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 November 2003
A spokesperson for the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) said on Tuesday that rebel forces were not involved in the crash of a Sudanese cargo plane in the southern Sudanese city of Wau, in which 13 people died. ”The crash is purely an accident,” SPLA spokesperson George Garang said in Nairobi.
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/ 18 November 2003
Britain’s Treasury chief, Gordon Brown, on Tuesday warned against tit-for-tat protectionist measures in the dispute between the European Union and the United States over American tariffs on foreign steel. The World Trade Organisation last week ruled that the American duties violated international fair-trade rules
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/ 18 November 2003
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel says the government is being schizophrenic regarding the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector. "Let me be honest: I think government has been schizophrenic in promoting small business. We have laws and regulations that are often contradictory," he said in a summit address.