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/ 20 September 2003
The UN demanded that Israel drop its threat to remove the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, by an overwhelmingly majority yesterday, thus isolating Israel and the US. The general assembly voted 133-4 the day after President Bush blamed Arafat for undermining the current round of peace negotiations.
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/ 20 September 2003
The solar system’s greatest explorer will perish in a kamikaze dive into the solar system’s biggest planet late tomorrow. The spacecraft Galileo — with nearly 3-billion miles on the clock and years of pioneering research behind it — will smash into the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.
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/ 19 September 2003
South Africans living abroad temporarily during next year’s general election will be allowed to vote, following an amendment to the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill. The Bill allows three categories of special votes: students, citizens temporarily out of the country such as holidaymakers and people abroad for business reasons.
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/ 19 September 2003
Many have wanted to know how Mugabe, the central subject of <i>Brothers under the Skin</i>, went from being a hero of the liberation struggle in Southern Africa to yet another African dictator. Author Christopher Hope compares him with Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. I was not convinced by the comparison, writes Sousa Jamba.
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/ 19 September 2003
Sibongile Khumalo’s birthday falls on Heritage Day, September 24. Khumalo says there is no truth to the rumour that the coincidence has anything to do with her passion for South Africa’s music legacy, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 19 September 2003
The Angolan army is still at war with secessionists in the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda, wedged between the two Congos, the daily Jornal de Angola said on Friday quoting an armed forces commander in the province.
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/ 19 September 2003
A -million bid by a South African consortium topped the auction to become Kenya’s third mobile phone provider, the industry regulator announced on Friday.
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/ 19 September 2003
Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates and his wife Melinda will visit Botswana on Wednesday, the Office of President Festus Mogae announced on Friday. The visit is part of a Gates’ tour of Africa, which will also take them to Mozambique and then South Africa
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/ 19 September 2003
The last Lesotho Queen Mother, Queen Mamohato Bereng Seeiso, was laid to rest at Roman Catholic cemetery at St Louis Mission in Matsieng, south of Maseru on Friday. Thousands of Basotho mourners attended the funeral service.
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/ 19 September 2003
The section of the tobacco law dealing with the allocation of smoking areas in public places is about to face its first test in court. The summons followed a complaint from the anti-smoking pressure group the Tobacco Control Board.