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/ 21 September 2003
Area commissioner for Soweto Nkanyiso Maphanga last week told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> that the police are investigating allegations that Dobsonville gangster Bhekizitha Nxumalo (20), who is better known as "Nkwenkwe", was supplied with a police-issue bullet-proof vest and ammunition by corrupt police members.
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/ 21 September 2003
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) on Sunday called for an investigation into all former spies of the apartheid government. PAC president Motsoko Pheko said it was inconsistent to probe only one person for allegations of being a former spy, but cover up for others.
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/ 21 September 2003
The Media Workers Association of South Africa and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union on Saturday rejected an SABC offer of a pay increase of 8,25%. They believe their demand of an increase of 11% plus a R200 improvement on their housing benefit is fair and affordable.
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/ 21 September 2003
About 8 000 doctors, researchers, policymakers and grassroots campaigners gathered in Nairobi on Sunday for a council of war on Africa’s battle against Aids, a combat characterised by a relentlessly spreading pandemic but also by some good news at last about funds and access to drugs.
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/ 21 September 2003
The editor-in-chief of Gambia’s bi-weekly Independent newspaper has been arrested by the west African country’s secret service, the paper said. Government agents came to the offices of the paper and detained Abdoulie Sey on Friday evening without giving his staff information about the arrest, employees said.
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/ 21 September 2003
In the tiny town of Piobbico, in the eastern Marches region, tradition has it that when the parade of leggy girls starts on television it’s time to change channel.
This medieval town proudly declares itself the World Capital of Ugly People. There is even a road sign to tell visitors they are entering the ugly zone.
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/ 21 September 2003
Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, a British tabloid newspaper has claimed. Saddam is reportedly demanding safe passage to Belarus in exchange for information on weapons of mass destruction and bank accounts.
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/ 21 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s vice-president, Simon Muzenda, has died, President Robert Mugabe announced in a speech broadcast on state radio. Muzenda was one of two vice presidents in the southern African country and a vanguard of Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.
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/ 21 September 2003
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) reacted with shock on Saturday when South African cricket officials called off the Protea’s tour to Pakistan, citing security fears after a bomb blast in Karachi on Friday.