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/ 8 September 2003
South African Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi says he does not believe it is appropriate for Deputy President Jacob Zuma to step down as head of the moral regeneration campaign as he remains innocent of any alleged wrongdoing until proven guilty.
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/ 8 September 2003
President George W. Bush has announced he will seek -billion to cover military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next year. He said military and intelligence operations would cost -billion over the next year.
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/ 8 September 2003
A young Zambian woman has won the African version of the reality TV show Big Brother, the programme that proved far more popular with the public than with outraged politicians and church leaders.
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/ 8 September 2003
Yasser Arafat nominated the speaker of the Palestinian Parliament, Ahmed Qureia, last night to be prime minister and oversee a crumbling peace process further jeopardised by pledges by Ariel Sharon and Hamas to destroy each other.
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/ 8 September 2003
North Korea has developed a long-range missile capable of targeting all of Japan and the United States territory of Guam, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday on the eve of the communist state’s 55th anniversary. The report comes amid speculation that North Korea could carry out a nuclear test on Tuesday.
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/ 8 September 2003
Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, is to send delegations to several African countries to brief them on its efforts to end the political and economic deadlock in the country.
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/ 8 September 2003
Lesotho’s queen mother, Mamohato Bereng Seeiso, the mother of King Letsie III, has died after collapsing at the Roman Catholic church in Mantsoenyane outside Maseru.
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/ 8 September 2003
Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu has attacked the media, saying the press has been trying to send every black official — including the president — to jail. The premier made headlines this week after reshuffling his cabinet to rectify ”instances of mismanagement” and ”alleged wrongdoing”.
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/ 8 September 2003
Former transport minister Mac Maharaj has backed a newspaper report suggesting Bulelani Ngcuka, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, was a probable informant for the South African government during the apartheid era.
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/ 8 September 2003
Booker T Washington, former slave and role model for other liberated North American slaves in the 19th century, used to admonish his fellow Negroes to "dip your bucket where you are". It’s hard to dip your bucket when you’re standing on stony ground.