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Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana has handed a report on Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s alleged breach of the executive ethics code to President Thabo Mbeki. Under the Executive Members’ Ethics Act, Mbeki must table the report and his comments on it in the National Assembly within 14 days.
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/ 13 October 2003
Two Egyptian boys who were born joined at the head were lying in separate beds for the first time in their two years of existence on Monday, but doctors who worked 26 hours to separate them warned that they still faced a long road to recovery.
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/ 13 October 2003
The African National Congress says it is surprised by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna’s announcement that he will not be available for Cabinet nomination next year.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=21812">’The ANC is hurting bad'</a>
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/ 13 October 2003
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has rejected a report that there is a rift between him and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali. The controversy follows a speech in which Buthelezi reportedly described Mtshali as a man who "seems not to have had the wisdom or prudence to follow the leadership which I gave him".
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/ 13 October 2003
The United States navy has agreed to limit its peacetime use of a new sonar system designed to detect enemy submarines, but which may also harm marine mammals and fish, an environmentalist group said.
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/ 13 October 2003
A nine-month-old baby girl is being treated in hospital after she was raped in a house in Kalkfontein near Kuils River in the Western Cape on Sunday. The child was found crawling around the kitchen and crying uncontrollably. Her clothes were bloodstained.
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/ 13 October 2003
Monday blues failed to dampen spirits on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE), with the all-share index up for the fourth straight day on the back of a slightly weaker rand and a strong performance by heavyweight dual-listed stocks on positive offshore markets.
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Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo has met exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to warn him not to interfere in his homeland’s fragile peace process. Last month the United Nations’s chief respresentative on Liberia, Jacques Klein, said that Taylor had been telephoning his successor, Moses Blah.
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/ 13 October 2003
South Africa needs to urgently address issues such as black economic empowerment and land reform as well as invest in education to avoid going the way of Zimbabwe, said Mail & Guardian CEO Trevor Ncube on Friday.