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/ 20 September 2003
A gay man claiming compensation from the Road Accident Fund scored a legal victory for homosexuals on Friday in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. Appeal Judge Tom Cloete found in favour of Antonie Michael du Plessis, whose long-term partner, Albert Ernest Clack, died in 1999 in a vehicle collision.
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/ 20 September 2003
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is celebrating his 10th year as America’s richest man after once again topping the rich list compiled by Forbes magazine. The 47-year-old chairperson and co-founder of the computer software group is worth -billion.
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/ 20 September 2003
Saddam Hussein’s defence minister, General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, surrendered to the US military in Iraq yesterday after weeks of negotiations and with the apparent promise that he would not face prosecution.
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/ 20 September 2003
The UN demanded that Israel drop its threat to remove the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, by an overwhelmingly majority yesterday, thus isolating Israel and the US. The general assembly voted 133-4 the day after President Bush blamed Arafat for undermining the current round of peace negotiations.
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/ 20 September 2003
The solar system’s greatest explorer will perish in a kamikaze dive into the solar system’s biggest planet late tomorrow. The spacecraft Galileo — with nearly 3-billion miles on the clock and years of pioneering research behind it — will smash into the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.
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/ 19 September 2003
South Africans living abroad temporarily during next year’s general election will be allowed to vote, following an amendment to the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill. The Bill allows three categories of special votes: students, citizens temporarily out of the country such as holidaymakers and people abroad for business reasons.
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/ 19 September 2003
Sibongile Khumalo’s birthday falls on Heritage Day, September 24. Khumalo says there is no truth to the rumour that the coincidence has anything to do with her passion for South Africa’s music legacy, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 19 September 2003
Many have wanted to know how Mugabe, the central subject of <i>Brothers under the Skin</i>, went from being a hero of the liberation struggle in Southern Africa to yet another African dictator. Author Christopher Hope compares him with Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. I was not convinced by the comparison, writes Sousa Jamba.
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/ 19 September 2003
The Angolan army is still at war with secessionists in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda, wedged between the two Congos, the daily Jornal de Angola said on Friday quoting an armed forces commander in the province.
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/ 19 September 2003
A -million bid by a South African consortium topped the auction to become Kenya’s third mobile phone provider, the industry regulator announced on Friday.