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/ 22 September 2003
Pupils are held up at gun point during their lunch break at school. A girl has a broken bottle held to her throat in the corridor. Pupils cannot flush toilets because the ablution facilities are so blocked that the floor is already covered in an inch of sewage. This is the daily reality for pupils at Johannesburg Secondary School in Mayfair.
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/ 22 September 2003
At a youth forum in Johannesburg, attended by former president Nelson Mandela, Microsoft chairperson Bill Gates said that if the history of Aids was written 40 or 50 years from now, people would say the world at large did not react to the disease as fast as it should have.
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/ 22 September 2003
A political settlement between Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) looks headed for a major breakthrough following an agreement by the two parties to draft a new constitution that would make way for a transitional government, says MDC spokesperson Paul Themba-Nyathi.
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/ 22 September 2003
The police has made great strides in reducing serious crime levels, although certain categories of crime have increased, says National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Since 1994, murder has now dropped by 29,5% and there is a decrease in high profile cases of aggravated robbery.
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/ 22 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki offered his condolences to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on Monday following the death of that country’s vice-president, Simon Muzenda. Muzanda passed away on Saturday following a long illness.
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/ 22 September 2003
South Africa will need to create 3,5-million new jobs and lift some six million people out of poverty if it wants to reverse the tide of unemployment, according to Rand Merchant Bank Group (RMH) chief economist JP Landman.
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/ 22 September 2003
At their meetings in Dubai, the Group of Seven and the International Monetary Fund have recognised the need for tough reforms to ease economic imbalances threatening the global recovery, but governments will need political courage to press on with the painful changes.
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/ 22 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki should call for an urgent resolution on human rights violations in Zimbabwe when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly this week, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. Mbeki is scheduled to address the 58th session of the General Assembly on Tuesday.
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/ 22 September 2003
Pakistan has rejected Australia’s free offer of 57 000 sheep stranded on a ship in the Gulf since Saudi Arabia rejected them five weeks ago. The livestock are at the heart of a dispute between Australian and Saudi Arabia over their level of infection with the scabby mouth viral illness.