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/ 20 January 2003
If the history of Nafta is anything to go by, the Southern African Customs Union countries are in for a torrid time if the United States succeeds in closing a similar agreement with them. NGOs in Washington have warned the Sacu countries about the implications of a free trade agreement.
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/ 20 January 2003
Decriminalising adult prostitution would free up millions of rands for the overburdened criminal justice system, says the Sex Workers’ Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat). This money could be redirected to fight the growing sexual exploitation of children.
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/ 20 January 2003
Unfavourable rains could not have come at a worse time for Ivory Coast’s cocoa growers, already grappling with the effects of a civil war that has torn the west African country in two.
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/ 20 January 2003
Italy’s Fiat enthusiasts on Sunday held a ”National Day of Fiat pride” to show their support for the crisis hit automaker by exhibiting some of the models which made the Turin-based company famous.
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/ 20 January 2003
The son of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC and Zulu royal Prince Gideon Zulu was critically injured in Ulundi on Monday in what the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) called a failed ”assassination attempt” on Prince Zulu’s life.
IFP calls for ‘calm and restraint’
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/ 20 January 2003
Ariel Sharon yesterday dismissed European peace efforts as anti-Israeli and said only the US matters in deciding the fate of the Palestinians.
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/ 20 January 2003
By dawn, the convoy is ploughing through the bush, rolling east into a rising sun with 58 tonnes of emergency food for a settlement camp cut off without aid deep in Angola’s famine territory.
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/ 20 January 2003
The United States last night offered Saddam Hussein immunity from prosecution if his departure from Baghdad would avert war.
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/ 20 January 2003
A religious sect associated with the company claiming to have produced the first human clone caused a stir in Japan on Monday with an announcement that the next clone will be Japanese and is due to be born at any time.
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/ 20 January 2003
South African police are investigating charges of assault and verbal abuse against British footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones, after complaints made by three women following a raucous party, a representative said on Sunday.