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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
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
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.
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/ 8 September 2003
Two adult male cheetah were released on the Eastern Shores of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park on Sunday 7 September marking the return of the world’s fastest cat to a wilderness where they were last seen about 100 years ago.
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/ 8 September 2003
More than 2 500 dignitaries, government officials, indigenous leaders,
businessmen and conservationists from over 170 countries are converging on
Durban for a once-in-a decade event that will take stock of the world’s protected areas and set priorities to safeguard them.
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/ 8 September 2003
The days of conservation islands, fences and fines are over. Instead, South African National Parks (SANParks) has embarked on a focused, multi-faceted campaign to draw people from all walks of life into conservation. The driving force behind the campaign is a new division at SANParks called the directorate of people and conservation.