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/ 16 September 2003
It was meant to showcase Athens as a modern, multi-ethnic city in the year that it stages the Olympic Games. Instead, a plan to erect the first mosque serving the Greek capital since the end of Ottoman rule has unleashed a row pitting the reform-minded government against the Greek Orthodox Church.
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/ 16 September 2003
The European Union has urged a radical overhaul of the World Trade Organisation after the embarrassing collapse of trade liberalisation talks for the second time in four years. Pascal Lamy, Europe’s trade commissioner, said that the breakdown in Cancun, Mexico, meant the negotiating round was in need of ”intensive care”.
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/ 16 September 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s bid for a court order to get hold of a document allegedly implicating him in a bribe has suffered a major setback. Pretoria High Court Judge Jerry Shongwe struck the matter off the roll due to lack of urgency and instructed Zuma to pay the legal costs of the respondents.
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/ 16 September 2003
The editor-in-chief of Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper, which was forced to close by the government last week, has resigned from his post. The Zimbabwean Supreme Court ruled that the paper, which is fiercely critical of President Robert Mugabe, was operating illegally.
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/ 16 September 2003
South Africa has warned Australia against using ”megaphone diplomacy” on Zimbabwe as a row escalated over allowing Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to attend this year’s Commonwealth summit in Nigeria.
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/ 16 September 2003
Nedcor chief executive Richard Laubscher has announced his intention to step down from his position by the end of this year after 10 years in the post. Nedcor further announced that it wanted to align market and analysts’ expectations for 2003.
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/ 16 September 2003
Three of Botswana’s opposition parties have signed a deal at the weekend pledging to work together to oust the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in next year’s general election. The BDP has ruled Botswana since independence from Britain in 1966.
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/ 16 September 2003
Struggle leaders — including Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki — on Monday called on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) at its eighth national congress to ensure that the African National Congress won the third democratic elections next year.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20533">Cosatu delegate found dead</a>
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/ 16 September 2003
How do you introduce first world computer and Internet technologies into the rural heartland of a developing country? You don’t. You introduce appropriate technology to suit the circumstances and users. In Limpopo’s Mogalakwena municipality, this is the guiding principle behind the launch of the HP i-community.
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/ 16 September 2003
Few things can upstage a constitutional imbroglio like a volcanic eruption. Le Kartala is doing just that. UN agencies are preparing for the worst eruption since the National Scientific Research and Documentation Centre on Grande Comore reported increased seismic activity in the volcano that last erupted 12 years ago.