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/ 13 September 2003
The United Nations security council yesterday ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya, clearing the way for 270 families of the Lockerbie bomb victims to each be paid -million compensation.
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/ 13 September 2003
The United States led a barrage of international pressure on Israel yesterday not to carry out its threat to exile Yasser Arafat or otherwise remove him as an ”obstacle to peace”.
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/ 13 September 2003
Britain gave warning last night that time was running out for the global trade summit in Cancun as negotiators prepared for a weekend of crisis talks to save the meeting from collapse.
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/ 12 September 2003
The National Land Committee (NLC) is still in one piece following a vote last week to decide whether its national office should be dissolved, but it is riven by ideological battles. In a show of solidarity with opponents who claim that the NLC has ”become less rooted in community experience”, three affiliates have left its ranks.
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/ 12 September 2003
At its "watershed" eighth national conference next week, the two million-member Cosatu will launch a programme aimed at putting the working class in the driving seat of the transformation process. A congress document penned explicitly attacks "high-level ANC members" on the right of the party who "side with capital".
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/ 12 September 2003
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has warned that South Africa is "an embryonic one-party state" and unless voters in 2004 are given an alternative there will be further consolidation of ANC central-government power. The parties appear to be heading towards a formal cooperation pact ahead of the 2004 poll.
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/ 12 September 2003
The African National Congress (ANC) said on Friday it was ”outraged” by the Israeli government’s insistence that it would eventually remove Palestinian President Yasser Arafat from the occupied territories.
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/ 12 September 2003
A committee tasked with determining whether or not the names of apartheid-era spies be released into the public domain has yet to open 34 boxes of evidence from TRC hearings covering submissions from the ANC and the former apartheid government on spies.
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/ 12 September 2003
This year’s Venice Film Festival satisfied an array of tastes and left some wanting, according to Peter Bradshaw and Derek Malcolm who gave a thumbs up for Bernardo Bertalucci’s The Dreamers.
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/ 12 September 2003
Many of Anand Patwardhan’s films were at one time or another banned by state TV channels in India and became the subject of litigation by Patwardhan who successfully challenged the rulings in court. He takes the stand today to answer Vinetia Govender’s questions.