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/ 14 October 2003
”Demonstrations here never last more than 10 minutes before the police move in,” photojournalist Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi remarks casually. It is another misleadingly tranquil day in Zimbabwe’s capital city, Harare, where Mukwazhi and two colleagues are keeping tabs on a group advocating for a new constitution, the National Constitutional Assembly.
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/ 14 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal backs the filling of a proposed posts for parliamentary commissioners to the Zulu king from the ranks of provincial MPs — and would not oppose an Inkatha Freedom Party candidate. This follows a row between IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Premier Lionel Mtshali.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=21848">Buthelezi denies rift with KZN premier</a>
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/ 14 October 2003
The United States is to try to break the United Nations deadlock over Iraq by tabling in the next 24 hours a revised draft resolution that it hopes will bring Russia aboard. The fresh version of the Security Council resolution sets a December 15 deadline for the Iraqi governing council to produce a timetable for the transfer of power to Iraqis.
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/ 14 October 2003
At the end of a potholed dirt track in an impoverished Albanian port town stands a concrete hut with a small TV antenna fixed to the roof. Outside a scrawny cow picks for grass between shreds of old plastic bags. Inside, Fatmira Bonjaku, seven months pregnant, explains why she gave away her three-year-old son to a childless Italian couple.
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/ 14 October 2003
Brain implants that could allow severely disabled people to control prosthetic limbs with their minds could be ready for use within two years, according to a team of scientists. Their claim comes after tests with monkeys showed that the animals could control a robotic arm using just their thoughts.
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/ 14 October 2003
During the past six years Fidelity Guards lost R274-million in robberies, the coordinator of the company’s cash-in-transit investigation told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. The court is to sentence the convicted former Southgate Clicks store manager Richard Molimi.
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/ 14 October 2003
Liberia was set to acquire a new government on Tuesday to lead the war-ravaged west African state until general elections in 2005, as rebels promised to start disarming. Temporary President Moses Blah is to hand over power to Gyude Bryant, a little-known businessman who arrived in Monrovia on Monday.
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/ 14 October 2003
England captain Martin Johnson paid South Africa the ultimate rugby compliment yesterday when he described them as "the most physical side in the world". With Saturday’s Group C decider looming, Johnson admitted: "It will be pretty difficult to win the World Cup if we lose on Saturday."
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/ 14 October 2003
Okay, you’ve seen the stories suggesting England have slight injury problems before their crucial Pool C clash against South Africa on Saturday. The truth is, England may well be forced to try a rookie at the base of the scrum on Saturday with Joost van der Westhuizen, South Africa’s most-capped player, sniping away at him.
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/ 14 October 2003
Thinking of hiding your illegal offshore funds in a tax haven? Think again. Tax havens are an endangered species. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is attempting to shine a halogen lamp on the opaque world of tax havens.