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/ 11 November 2003
The United States on Monday tried to tamp down controversy over a two-million-dollar bounty for former Liberian president Charles Taylor, suggesting the money might not be used as a reward for his capture. The State Department said it was discussing what to do with the money.
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/ 11 November 2003
A wide range of organisations have gathered in Cape Town to ask Parliament not to pass the Communal Land Rights Bill, which they claim gives too much power to traditional leaders to the detriment of the rural poor. However, the groups differed on how to lobby government to accede to their demands.
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/ 11 November 2003
Empowerment is a business imperative that South African companies need to embark upon as black economic empowerment (BEE) accreditation will allow them to maintain their existing positions, executive chairman of industrial group Bidvest (BVT) Brian Joffe said on Monday.
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/ 11 November 2003
Although nominal South African house prices have more than doubled since the beginning of 1999, this does not mean that South Africa is currently experiencing a house price bubble as the real price of houses is still 20% below the 1983 peak, South African commercial bank Absa said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 November 2003
These are perilous times for journalists working in Africa. ”Hardly a week goes by without a journalist being deported here … or threatened elsewhere,” said Herve Bourges, president of the International Union of the Francophone Press, in the Gabonese capital.
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/ 11 November 2003
You don’t have to be a supersonic aviation nut to harbour a certain fondness for Concorde — and not many of those queuing outside Christie’s elegant auction rooms in central Paris on Monday were.
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/ 11 November 2003
A new book by a German historian has cast fresh light on one of the most extraordinary episodes of WWI and revealed that the celebrated 1914 Christmas truce took place only because many of the Germans stationed on the front had worked in England.
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/ 11 November 2003
The Bush administration has blocked compensation for US soldiers captured and tortured during the first Gulf war, arguing that the money was now needed for Iraq’s reconstruction. Seventeen former prisoners of war were awarded nearly -billion in compensatory and punitive damages by a US federal court in July.
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/ 11 November 2003
Zimbabwe’s first post-independence president, Canaan Banana, who was jailed for sodomy, died on Monday of an undisclosed illness. Banana (67) a former Methodist minister, was found guilty in 1999 of 11 counts of sodomy and abusing his power to sexually assault and carry out ”unnatural acts” with men.
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/ 11 November 2003
Judges cannot, simply by virtue of their office, be trusted with dispensing justice in South African courts. In October we saw at least two examples of judges whose integrity was questioned, or whose pronouncements were not befitting of the ”your honour” status bestowed on them.