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/ 24 September 2003
A bomb has hit a bus in Baghdad, killing an Iraqi and wounding 21 others, while the United States-installed government moved to assert itself with a tough new set of guidelines for media covering the occupied country. The blast occurred shortly after a US patrol passed through the area.
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/ 24 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has called for unity with the opposition as he led tens of thousands of mourners in paying tribute to the country’s late vice president, Simon Vengesayi Muzenda, who was buried in a state funeral broadcast live on national television.
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/ 24 September 2003
Microsoft is shutting down internet chat services in most of its markets around the world and limiting the service in the United States to help reduce criminal solicitations of children through online chat discussions. The changes will take effect on October 14, Microsoft has said in an announcement from Europe.
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/ 24 September 2003
South Africa’s traditional leaders and traditional communities have a critical role to play in the country and should not be allowed to slide into insignificance, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. The DA believes that traditional leaders’ role in managing communal lands has to be respected.
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/ 24 September 2003
Aids could slash African economic growth by up to half, far more than previously suggested by researchers, the World Bank said on Wednesday. Previous studies have suggested that Aids would reduce GDP growth in the worst-hit countries by one or two percentage points annually.
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/ 24 September 2003
The Democratic Alliance says it will oppose any Bill to disenfranchise South Africans abroad. On Tuesday political parties expressed their dismay at the African National Congress’s decision to table a legislative amendment that would effectively prevent citizens abroad from voting in the 2004 general election.
Fury over U-turn on overseas vote
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/ 24 September 2003
The way the government is implementing black economic empowerment seems like an exclusive club for card-carrying African National Congress members, United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa said on Wednesday. He also called for greater government intervention in South Africa’s economy.
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/ 24 September 2003
The good news is that according to the latest Amps survey, media consumption appears to be on the rise again. However, is this quantitative improvement tempered with an improvement in quality? In this context, Guy Berger examines the Bulelani Ngcuka spy allegations, Zimbabwe’s silenced <i>Daily News</i> and the Bristow-Bovey plagiarism scandal.
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/ 24 September 2003
The Kenyan government has drafted a law that would outlaw discrimination against people infected with HIV or full-blown Aids. The draft law would make it illegal for employers to deny anyone a job or promotion because they are infected with HIV. The law would also make the deliberate spreading of the virus a criminal offence.
Aids could halve economic growth
Protest disrupts Aids conference
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/ 24 September 2003
Several dozen demonstrators demanding swift access to anti-retroviral drugs for HIV-infected Africans have staged a noisy protest at Africa’s biggest Aids conference in Nairobi. They demonstrated at the stands of pharmaceutical majors GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb and the American aid agency USAid.