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/ 1 September 2003
South Africa’s premier community conservation project, the Makuleke Communal Property Association, has rejected commercial hunting in favour of ecotourism to raise revenues. The new ecotourism deal will put an end to hunting in the national park.
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/ 1 September 2003
A comprehensive strategy will be announced on World Aids Day on how to realise the World Health Organisation’s goal of providing anti-retroviral drugs to three million people by the end of 2005, WHO director general Dr Jong-Wook Lee said on Monday.
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/ 1 September 2003
The Freedom of Expression Institute is taking Johannesburg Water to court in a bid to gain access to information about a plan to install pre-paid water meters in Soweto and Johannesburg. It requires users to buy coupons or vouchers to put in meters, which then allow them the requisite amount of water.
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/ 1 September 2003
The government’s claim that South Africa was not a crime capital and compared favourably with the rest of the world is refuted by United States crime figures, says official opposition chief whip Douglas Gibson.
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/ 1 September 2003
The American airline industry is bracing itself for a barrage of lawsuits after revelations that almost 60% of the families who lost relatives in the September 11 terrorist attacks have yet to file claims with the victims’ compensation fund.
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/ 1 September 2003
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, the Indonesian who has been sentenced to death for the Bali bombings, appeared in public on Monday for the first time since his conviction and testified that he was involved in an earlier deadly attack.
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/ 1 September 2003
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> has broken through the key 200 000 reader mark, surpassing previous readership records achieved during the Iraq war. The readership of the web publication has almost doubled in the space of one year.
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/ 1 September 2003
The Doors are trying to light a fire among audiences minus the Lizard King, and they don’t care if people disapprove of their attempt to revive the group without Jim Morrison.
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/ 1 September 2003
Three people have been charged for last week’s twin car bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 52 people and injured more than 150.
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/ 1 September 2003
The African National Congress Women’s League has called on President Thabo Mbeki as a leader of the African Union to intervene in the case of a Nigerian woman facing death because she had a child out of wedlock.