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/ 20 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday expressed shock following a road accident that left 15 pensioners dead and 13 seriously injured. The pensioners were queuing to collect their grants when a horse and trailer ploughed into the pensioners on the side of the road.
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/ 20 October 2003
Retrenching workers is not the only means Iscor intends to use to deal with the combined impact of the collapse in the demand for steel and the continuing strengthening of the rand, the company said on Monday. It has already merged its flat and long steel businesses and thus eliminated duplication.
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/ 20 October 2003
The government has political power, but not enough influence on the mechanisms of the state to turn them into real tools of social and economic development. This is a crucial finding of the government’s 10-year review of the first decade of freedom released on Thursday.
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/ 20 October 2003
An unacceptable number of women in developing countries die giving birth compared with the rest of the world and the imbalance must be corrected with better access to health care, three UN agencies said on Monday.
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/ 20 October 2003
Swaziland was poised on Monday to release the results of parliamentary elections held at the weekend, which pro-democracy groups had urged voters in the tiny southern African country, the continent’s last absolute monarchy, to boycott. ”All the results are in and voting is officially over for now,” said election information officer John Mkhonta.
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/ 20 October 2003
Zimbabwe’s main constitutional change pressure group has taken its campaign to a level, demanding that the next general election be held only under a new democratic constitution. The National Constitutional Assembly says to get into another election before changing the rules would be self-defeating.
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/ 20 October 2003
The leaders of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups vowed on Monday to retaliate against Israel for continuing attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The groups’ statement followed Israeli airstrikes on Monday in Gaza that killed two Hamas activists and a bystander.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22257">Gaza strike kills three</a>
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/ 20 October 2003
It should be possible to prevent the intelligence community’s sources and methods from being revealed before the Hefer commission, commission secretary John Bacon said on Monday. ”We are not interested in their sources or methods,” Bacon said.
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/ 20 October 2003
Rights organisations are demanding that Kenya’s draft constitution be adopted to allow inmates to vote in 2007. Like in most African countries, Kenyan prisoners do not vote. If Kenya allows its prisoners to vote, it will be the second African country — after South Africa — to do so.
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/ 20 October 2003
Three suspected members of the radical Hamas group were killed in Gaza City when an Israeli attack helicopter fired missiles at a car containing the group. Ten people were reported wounded in the attack, which destroyed the vehicle as it was travelling in the northern part of Gaza City.