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/ 12 September 2003
Disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, who quit in a plagiarism scandal, has signed a book contract worth around half a million dollars. The book Burning Down My Master’s House: My Life at The New York Times will be published early next year.
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/ 12 September 2003
South African soccer star Mark Fish’s father, Malcolm Fish, was on Thursday jailed for two years for going on a string of drinking binges with stolen cheques. The magistrate said Fish had used the cheques to enjoy himself, and had shown little remorse.
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/ 12 September 2003
Two of the alleged rapists arrested in connection with the gang rape of a matric pupil at a University of Pretoria hostel have been identified as relatives of a high-profile politician in the former government of national unity.
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/ 12 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has ruled that a private daily newspaper, which is critical of President Robert Mugabe’s government, is operating illegally because it has not registered under tough media laws.
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/ 12 September 2003
World Trade Organisation countries on Thursday showed no major signs of shifting from long-held positions in their first multilateral negotiations devoted to farm reform at a key ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico.
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/ 12 September 2003
The big outcome of the fifth World Parks Congress will be the recognition that conservation efforts and the needs of human communities are inextricably linked, says Minister of Tourism and Environmental Affairs Valli Moosa. Another result would be greater global responsibility for preserving the biodiversity of underdeveloped countries.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20376">Leakey puts wildlife at top of tree</a>
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/ 12 September 2003
After two months of relative calm in Bunia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) most war-torn town, the 1 500-strong French-led peacekeeping force called in to protect it in June completed its withdrawal last week, amid grave fears among local residents about their security.
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/ 12 September 2003
It is a suggestive coincidence that this week marks both the anniversary of 9/11, and the 30th anniversary of Pinochet’s infamous putsch in Chile. If baffled Americans are still trying to fathom why a band of extremists flew planes into the WTC, they need look no further than the bloody Chilean coup and its aftermath.
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/ 12 September 2003
Research done by Nasa and the National Geographic Society reveals that the most plentiful things in the world are (in order) bits of sand, locusts, professional tennis tournaments, lemmings, dormice and Baldwins.
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/ 12 September 2003
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota has denied that a blazing row over the restructuring of the Department of Defence has erupted between South African National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda, on the one side, and Lekota and his director general January Masilela, on the other.