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/ 19 September 2003
A company that was contracted to manage government funds donated to the taxi industry in Gauteng channelled money into the personal bank account of provincial Transport Minister Khabisi Mosunkutu.
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/ 19 September 2003
Community leaders left Durban at the end of the World Parks Congress satisfied that most of their demands had been recognised. But hundreds of community conservationists this week called for "a truth and reconciliation commission" to deal with injustices and mistakes made in the name of conservation.
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/ 19 September 2003
They all quote PAC founder Robert Sobukwe, owe allegiance to the Pan Africanism epitomised by the gallant Nkrumah and Garvey, and are mostly intellectual heavyweights like Dr Motsoko Pheko, Dr Snail Mgwebi and Dr Stanley Mogoba. But it has become notable that PAC members cannot hold a meeting without somebody staging a walkout, singing songs, denouncing the leaders or squabbling over position.
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/ 19 September 2003
Hurricane Isabel has plowed into North Carolina’s Outer Banks with 160 kph winds and pushed its way up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, weakening to a tropical storm by evening but not before swamping roads, knocking out power to more than 2,5-million people and resulting in at least four deaths.
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/ 19 September 2003
The surviving members of The Beatles are releasing a remixed version of their classic 1970 album Let It Be that strips away many of the elaborate string arrangements and recreates the way the band originally recorded the music. The re-release, called Let It Be … Naked, will hit stores in November.
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/ 19 September 2003
Three United States soldiers were killed and two wounded late on Thursday in an ambush near the hometown of Saddam Hussein, the latest attack since the release of a new purported message of defiance by the ousted leader. The troops came under fire near the town of Tikrit, which is still a bastion of support for Saddam.
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/ 19 September 2003
Concluding the eighth national congress of the federation in Midrand on Thursday, Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha delivered an impassioned plea to members of the tripartite alliance, urging them to respect the views of each organisation.
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/ 19 September 2003
President Thabo Mbeki’s promises about Zimbabwe have the same value as the bearer’s cheques being printed by that country’s Reserve Bank, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has remarked in his weekly newsletter. ”They look real enough, but in the end they are worthless,” he said.
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/ 19 September 2003
A special report by the provincial auditor general has highlighted financial mismanagement in most of the Eastern Cape’s municipalities. The shocking facts in the report include that 21 local authorities have not provided financial statements for two or more years.
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/ 19 September 2003
The Zimbabwe government said late on Thursday it would appeal against a High Court ruling overturning the forced closure of the country’s only independent daily newspaper. Earlier the High Court ruled that the outspoken <i>Daily News</i> could resume publishing.
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