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/ 13 October 2003
Ahmed Qorei chaired a meeting of his emergency Cabinet in Ramallah on Monday for the first time after reluctantly agreeing to stay on as Palestinian premier until the end of the month, amid international concern over the divisions within the leadership.
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/ 13 October 2003
An international refugee rights organisation has criticised the way in which the Ugandan government carried out the relocation of Sudanese refugees from a camp in western Uganda, which ended in riots and the arrest of some refugees. ”Refugee descriptions of the move suggest that the move was neither humane nor dignified,” Refugees International said.
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/ 13 October 2003
The Hefer Commission of Inquiry’s investigation would be incomplete without hearing evidence from Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. ”The deputy president is inextricably linked to the investigation,” DA justice spokesperson Sheila Camerer said.
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/ 13 October 2003
The Hefer commission said on Monday it has no mandate to inquire generally into the exercise of Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna’s powers. This is particularly in regard to liquidations and other matters affecting the office of the Masters of the High Court.
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/ 13 October 2003
Advocate Gilbert Marcus, SC, on Monday argued before the Johannesburg High Court that his clients, Roger and Brett Kebble broke no laws in a series of deals involving Randfontein Estates gold mine in 1999.
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/ 13 October 2003
The African Development Bank has made a grant of ,2-million to the Inter-African Coffee Organisation to boost its capacity. The 25-nation group is to use the grant from the Bank’s development fund to improve the quality and marketing of African coffee to boost export receipts.
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/ 13 October 2003
The world premiere of the only one-act play written by South African author Herman Charles Bosman is to take place at this weekend’s Bosman festival in the Groot Marico bushveld, organisers said on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2003
Liberia was poised on Monday for the inauguration of a transitional government after 14 years of almost uninterrupted civil war, but ordinary people had little to cheer about as hardships persisted. ”Nothing has changed, the situation is even worse for us here,” said 51-year-old Edward Konuwa.
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South Africa edged closer to the government’s declared target of placing at least 8% of the country’s land under ”people’s conservation” this week, with the announcement of the largest single proclamation of protected areas since the 1930s.
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/ 13 October 2003
The Zimbabwean government is investigating illegal hunting by South Africans in the south of the country. A damning report on illegal hunting compiled by wildlife activists including the Zimbabwe Wildlife Task Force has been released. It named illegal South African hunters and their collaborators in government.