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/ 26 September 2003
My understanding of constitutional law from my days at the University of Zimbabwe was that not all law enacted by Parliament is good law. It was with this insight that those freedom fighters who represented Zimbabweans’ interests at the Lancaster House talks extracted a guarantee that all laws of Zimbabwe from that day on (1980) would not infringe the fundamental rights they had fought for.
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/ 25 September 2003
The problems of finding acceptable isiXhosa expressions for 21st Century political vocabulary came under the spotlight at an isiXhosa terminology workshop in Cape Town. The workshop is trying to address problems that government translators were coming across in their daily work.
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/ 25 September 2003
There were mixed reactions on Thursday to the release of the report of the independent committee of inquiry into farm attacks. The report — released by senior police officers at Parliament — found that the attacks were not racially motivated, and that pure criminal intent was behind them.
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/ 25 September 2003
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Penuell Maduna has rejected suggestions that the appointment of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was irregular because he did not receive a security clearance.
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/ 25 September 2003
Pure criminal intent and not racism was behind violent acts against the farming community in South Africa, the Committee of Inquiry into Farm Attacks has found. One of the main findings of the report, released to the media in Parliament, was that the attacks were not politically motivated.
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/ 25 September 2003
Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa said on Thursday that reviewing and rating how African leaders perform should be left to fellow Africans. He said rating the performance of African leaders would only work if it was guided by Africans who knew the conditions and sensitivities of the continent.
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/ 25 September 2003
About 3 000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) employed by the Port Elizabeth-based car manufacturer Delta were still on strike on Thursday and production had been severely crippled, Numsa said.
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/ 25 September 2003
SAB Ltd, the South African subsidiary of SABMiller plc (SAB), the world’s second largest brewer by volume, confirmed on Thursday that given the rapid growth in the premium beer market in South Africa, the company foresaw double digit growth over the next 10 years.