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/ 6 September 2003
Farmers in the North West province warned the government this week to improve its support of resettled land claimants — or face the doom of the land reform programme. The government has been criticised for dumping hundreds of families on small pieces of land and expecting them to run sustainable farms.
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/ 6 September 2003
Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas may have resigned in a bid to squeeze concessions from Yasser Arafat in a bitter power battle, but it has left the United States-backed road map to peace in tatters.
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/ 6 September 2003
Several thousand protesters, some shouting ”the world is not a piece of merchandise”, demonstrated in Paris on Saturday against the upcoming World Trade Organisation summit in Mexico. Demonstrations were also organised in other French cities.
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/ 6 September 2003
A five-day African health conference ended in Johannesburg on Friday with the continent’s health ministers promising to step up the fight against Aids, malaria and tuberculosis and to bring poverty and malnutrition under control.
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/ 6 September 2003
Relations between Botswana and Zimbabwe are deteriorating as Botswana builds an electric fence along the border and accuses illegal Zimbabwean immigrants of robbing houses and harassing children.
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/ 6 September 2003
The most powerful hurricane to hit Bermuda in 50 years slammed into the British territory on Friday, unleashing deadly winds that split trees in half and swept trucks off roads. Four people were reported missing.
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/ 6 September 2003
At least six people have been killed and 25 injured in a powerful blast that went off as an Indian army convoy drove through a fruit market in Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar.
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/ 6 September 2003
The notion of packing the trunks means something less ordinary this week with the relocation of about 40 elephants from the northern Kruger National Park to Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park.
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/ 6 September 2003
Former Springbok communications manager Mark Keohane on Friday insisted that Bok coach Rudolf Straeuli was fully aware of the tension between locks Quinton Davids and Geo Cronje long before their highly publicised alleged fallout a fortnight ago.
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/ 6 September 2003
Justine Henin-Hardenne scrambled to win a thrilling US Open semifinal on Friday after Jennifer Capriati twice served for the match. Henin-Hardenne gave herself 19-and-a-half hours to recover to meet fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters in their first US Open final on Saturday.