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/ 23 September 2003
The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Bill completed its passage through Parliament on Tuesday when it was adopted in the National Council of Provinces, albeit with the objections of the Democratic Alliance (DA). The bill was also approved in the National Assembly earlier this month.
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/ 23 September 2003
Without a strong United Nations, globalisation will result in developed countries dominating poorer ones, President Thabo Mbeki. In a speech prepared for delivery at the UN General Assembly, Mbeki said without a popularly accepted UN, the powerful would set the agenda for all residents of the global village.
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/ 23 September 2003
US President George Bush appealed to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday for international support to guide Iraq to democracy while calling on Palestinians to take new steps toward statehood by embracing new leaders committed to peace.
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/ 23 September 2003
Lasting peace in the Middle East will require the right kind of leadership on both sides of the conflict, and the right kind of support from the international community, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, adding that South Africa and Israel both ”struggle with democracy in practice”.
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/ 23 September 2003
An Aids wave is washing over Southern and East Africa, devastating families and communities, says a UNAids report released at the 13th international conference on Aids in Africa. ”HIV is the first wave of the epidemic, entering silently and virtually unnoticed,” says the report.
Anti-HIV gel still a distant goal
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/ 23 September 2003
The death toll in a head-on collision in Uganda between a speeding bus and a truck loaded with relief food has risen to 47, and seven bus passengers remained in critical condition on Tuesday. Most passengers were from Rwanda, but there were also nationals from Burundi and Uganda.
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/ 23 September 2003
About 5,3-million people in South Africa, or 31,2% of those economically active, were officially unemployed in March this year, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. The corresponding figures for September and March last year, which Stats South Africa provided earlier, were 30,5% and 29,4% respectively.
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/ 23 September 2003
The South African National Editors’ Forum has expressed its concern about the clampdown on media freedom in Zimbabwe as well as the South African government’s ”lack of firm response” to the matter, in a letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
Zim police to charge journalists
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/ 23 September 2003
Johnnic Communications, publishers of Elle magazine in South Africa, has suspended the magazine’s editor, Cynthia Vongai, pending the outcome of a disciplinary inquiry. The suspension follows allegations Vongai had plagiarised an article from a website called Askmen.com.