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/ 10 November 2003
Johannesburg socialite Hazel Crane, a close friend of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and wife of deceased Israeli diamond dealer Shai Avissar, was shot dead on Monday while on her way to give testimony in the Johannesburg High Court, police said.
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/ 10 November 2003
The South African Secret Services, which conducts crime intelligence, underspent by just over R1,1-million during the financial year ending March 31, 2003, according to the report of the Auditor General Shauket Fakie.
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/ 10 November 2003
An outbreak of the Ebola virus is believed to have claimed the lives of nine people in a remote forest region of Congo, Brazzaville, the medical information service Medinfo reported on Monday.
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/ 10 November 2003
Rebels in northern Uganda have massacred more than 100 civilians in five consecutive days of raids, the head of the regional government alleged on Monday. The Lord’s Resistance Army has been raiding villages in Lira district daily, and more than 100 bodies have been found between Wednesday and Saturday.
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/ 10 November 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was still stuck in negative territory by midday on Monday, although off the weaker levels seen at the opening. Dealers said that the firmness in the rand was dragging the market lower, as were softer European equities and the weak close in the US on Friday.
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/ 10 November 2003
A suspected Togolese political assassin was on Sunday arrested in the Ghanaian capital in a joint Ghanaian-Togolese police operation, the Ghana News Agnecy (GNA) reported.
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/ 10 November 2003
Four people were killed and seven wounded on Sunday in a village outside the capital of war-torn central African country of Burundi after having been detained by army troops, witnesses said.
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/ 10 November 2003
Former president Nelson Mandela was his usual humorous self on Sunday when he went to a voting station in Johannesburg.
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/ 10 November 2003
The stakes in the ten day old Airports Company South Africa dispute have risen with baggage handling workers and South Africa Airways cabin crew walking off the job in support of the Acsa workers demands for a 10% wage increase.
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/ 10 November 2003
Mauritanian police arrested top opposition presidential candidate Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah for a second time on Sunday on suspicion of planning a coup following the re-election of longtime leader Maaouiya Ould Taya.