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/ 28 January 2004
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa says he is ”absolutely embarrassed” about a leopard that had to be put down after being injured in a trap on his family’s farm in the Western Cape. According to reports, the leopard was caught in a gin trap set by workers on Monday.
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/ 28 January 2004
Four South Africans were injured and one was killed in a car bomb in Baghdad in Iraq on Wednesday morning, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Departmental spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota said three of the injured men were treated for minor lacerations and the fourth one sustained serious injuries.
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/ 28 January 2004
The baggage-handling strike at major airports by South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) members entered its sixth week on Wednesday with no end in sight. Close to 690 Satawu members employed by the company have been on strike at the Johannesburg and Cape Town international airports.
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/ 28 January 2004
South Africa’s Communal Land Rights Bill is unconstitutional and misconceived, according to human rights groups, legal practitioners and gender campaigners. The Bill, they say, will be impossible to implement. They say it will entrench and aggravate the existing inequality of women with regards to land rights.
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/ 28 January 2004
Inkatha Freedom Party leader and Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has played down a meeting held with the ruling African National Congress this week, describing it as having "no bearing" on the coming elections.
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/ 28 January 2004
South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance is "fuelling the fires of racism using the fig leaf of a strong opposition", the New National Party argued on Wednesday. In a raging set of pre-election volleys — the NNP and the DA have been at each other’s throats all week
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/ 28 January 2004
European Union foreign ministers are poised to extend sanctions against Zimbabwe next month, reports said on Tuesday. The ministers, due to meet in Brussels on February 23, will approve the renewal of targeted sanctions on leaders of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party, diplomats have confirmed.
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/ 28 January 2004
One of South Africa’s largest medical aid administrators, Medscheme, has welcomed proposals for restructuring the public service’s medical-aid schemes. A proposed new public-service medical-aid scheme would bring a welcome one million new medical-aid patients into the industry.
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/ 28 January 2004
The Boeremag High Court treason trial was once again delayed on Thursday to enable defence counsel to study possible further evidence. Police spy Johan Smit revealed, during cross-examination, that police had secretly taped some of the Boeremag meetings at which a coup plot was allegedly discussed.
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/ 28 January 2004
The worst drought in more than a decade is sweeping through Southern Africa, destroying crops, driving up food prices and leaving millions hungry — even as foreign assistance dries up. The World Food Programme is still short -million to feed 6,5-million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.