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/ 15 September 2003
Opposition political parties have criticised the decision to make Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang acting president in the absence of President Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, on Monday. Mbeki and Zuma are attending the Burundi peace talks in Tanzania.
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/ 15 September 2003
Current black economic empowerment programmes are too narrow to transform South Africa’s economy sustainably, Willy Madisha of the Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Monday at the opening of the labour federation’s eighth national congress.
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/ 15 September 2003
At a meeting of the national executive committee (NEC) of the African National Congress in Johannesburg over the past weekend, it deliberated on a number of current issues, including the arms-deal controversy, the new Democratic Alliance/Inkatha Freedom Party coalition and racism in South African rugby.
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/ 15 September 2003
An agreement aimed at strengthening the protection of the world’s thousands of migratory species has been signed by the World Conservation Union and the Convention on Migratory Species at the World Parks Congress in Durban. These species include South Africa’s elephant population.
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/ 15 September 2003
The state has a bona fide belief that the alleged gang rape that took place at the University of Pretoria last week was not the first, the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday. However, defence lawyers have rejected the notion.
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/ 15 September 2003
South Africa needs its own Robert Mugabe, say squatters in the Hartebeespoort dam area. They are fed up with constant evictions that have forced them to move from one farm to another. They have also threatened to occupy a farm they believe to be owned by President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 15 September 2003
Senior Palestinians told Israel on Monday that its threat to assassinate Yasser Arafat was a serious mistake after Washington also warned against any move to ”remove” the veteran leader, denouncing the threats as ”criminal, insolent and stupid”.
Israel considers killing Arafat
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/ 15 September 2003
President Kumba Yala of Guinea-Bissau was deposed by the army in a bloodless coup on Sunday after delaying parliamentary elections in this small West African state for nearly a year and leaving civil servants and soldiers unpaid for several months.
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/ 15 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s sole independent daily newspaper, which has been shut down for operating illegally, will on Monday submit an application to register with a government media commission. A Supreme Court decision stated the paper was operating illegally because it had not registered with the commission.
More condemnation of paper closure
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/ 15 September 2003
Israel’s deputy prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has said the Israeli government is considering killing Yasser Arafat as one of the means to carry out its threat to ”remove” him as an obstacle to peace. The statement was immediately denounced by the Palestinian leadership.