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The United Nations World Food Programme needs more donations, or 6,5-million people would face severe hunger at the most critical time of year. ”Unless WFP receives immediate donations, people will face severe hunger,” Mike Sackett, WFP regional director for southern Africa said on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2003
Emerging market insurance provider Safrican Insurance Company, wholly owned by Thebe Investment Corporation company, and South African government-owned Postbank said on Tuesday they had joined forces to provide affordable insurance cover to the local "unbanked" economic sector.
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/ 5 November 2003
South African Navy chief Johan Retief says the Navy participation in the tendering process for four corvettes — the first which arrived at Simon’s Town on Tuesday — was above reproach.
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/ 5 November 2003
The focus falls this weekend on South Africa’s youth who appear — at least up to now — to have spurned the political process and have not yet registered on the voters’ roll so they can vote in next year’s national election.
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/ 5 November 2003
SA’s second national operator would be named in eight weeks, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri indicated on Tuesday. The minister said that a search for the SNO’s 51% shareholders or investors had so far not been successful and the ”equity stake will be warehoused until suitable investors or shareholders are found”.
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/ 5 November 2003
Owners of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, vowed on Tuesday to fight through that country’s courts for the right to publish. ”That they have chosen to shoot the messenger won’t make the message go away,” said Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe chairperson Strive Masiyiwa.
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/ 5 November 2003
Former apartheid spy Vanessa Brereton has apologised to the anti-apartheid activists she betrayed during her time as agent RS452, saying she does not deserve or expect forgiveness. The former Eastern Cape human rights lawyer said she was ”spellbound” by her lover — senior security policeman Carl Edwards — who recruited her into the secret police in the 1980s.
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/ 5 November 2003
Marginal South African gold miner Durban Roodepoort Deep has again come under fire for allegedly causing pollution to the river system next to its Tolukuma gold mine in central Papua New Guinea.
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In a case seen as critical for all journalists, the definition of media freedom was heavily disputed on Tuesday in day-long arguments in the Bloemfontein High Court.
Judge president JP Malherbe and Judge DJ Lombard were hearing an urgent application by journalist Ranjeni Munusamy to set aside an order forcing her to testify before the Hefer commission. Judge Joos Hefer said Munusamy had the right to object to certain questions.
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A soft-spoken, bespectacled Irish priest on Tuesday became the first person in South Africa to participate in human trials of an experimental HIV vaccine. Cameras flashed as Kieran Creagh rolled up his sleeve to show off the injection site and shared a glass of champagne with medical staff at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.