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/ 13 September 2003
Armed police in Zimbabwe on Friday shut down the offices of the country’s only independent daily newspaper, a day after a court said the paper was operating illegally, a lawyer for the paper said.
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/ 13 September 2003
A teenage surfer died on Friday afternoon after being bitten by a shark at popular surfing spot, Noordhoek near Cape Town, the National Sea Rescue Institute confirmed.
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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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/ 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
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
Carla del Ponte, who was removed last month from her post as prosecutor for the Rwanda genocide court, yesterday blamed her dismissal on the country’s president, Paul Kagame.
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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
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
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
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.