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/ 21 October 2003
Côte d’Ivoire security forces have arrested 11 members of a leading opposition party in an alleged plot to assassinate top government figures. The roundup of followers of former prime minister Allasane Ouattara is the latest in weeks of arrests in alleged coup and assassination plots.
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/ 21 October 2003
Rural schools are alienated from their communities and play no role in local development, according to preliminary results of a groundbreaking research study, a key finding of which is that the education policy community does not understand the problems of rural education.
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/ 21 October 2003
Fans of Des Backos can rest assured that the soccer star of the 1970s has not changed much. The man who caused so much joy to his fans by running rings around his opponents still has ”mood-enhancing” as part of his repertoire — he runs a liquor store.
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/ 21 October 2003
A former comrade-in-arms of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka became the Hefer commission’s first witness to testify publicly. Ngcuka reportedly spent many years in prison for refusing to testify against fellow African National Congress member Patrick Ntobeko ("Ntobs") Maqubela, nowadays a lawyer.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22307">’Enough lies and deceit, I’m the spy'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=22267">Sources won’t be compromised</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=29920">Arms deal focus</a>
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/ 21 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s opposition on Tuesday defended its ”peaceful” legal challenge to the legitimacy of the government of longtime leader Robert Mugabe, re-elected last year in controversial polls. ”This case is our peaceful weapon,” David Coltart, an MP and legal adviser of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said during a visit to South Africa.
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/ 21 October 2003
The controversial Postal Services Amendment Bill has got the nod from the African National Congress-dominated public enterprises and labour select committee of South Africa’s National Council of Provinces — despite an eleventh-hour attempt to halt the legislation in its present form.
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/ 21 October 2003
SA Airways has invited the South African public to help name 61 of the national carrier’s new aircraft. South Africans have until the end of this month to come up with names for the 40 Airbuses, the first of which has been named after the former president Nelson Mandela, and 21 Boeings.
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/ 21 October 2003
A consortium led by Accenture has been awarded the tender to set up the information and communication technology systems, valued at R3,7-million, of the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in Port Elizabeth, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s annual auction of tobacco, once the motor of one of Africa’s most vigorous economies, closed on Monday at its lowest volume in nearly 50 years, with even an even gloomier future for the next season’s crop. Sales on all three auction floors ended with 80,2-million kilogrammes of smoking leaf — less than half last year’s 166-million kilogrammes.
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/ 21 October 2003
The Commission on Restitution of Land Rights in the Western Cape is to compensate families and former tenants in Paarl on Saturday for tenancy rights lost in terms of the Group Areas Act of the apartheid era.