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/ 19 September 2003

Congress pleases the people

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

Will the real PAC please stand up

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

Isabel pounds the United States

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 Beatles are back — naked

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 US soldiers killed in Iraq ambush

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

Zim govt doesn’t want paper to reopen

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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