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/ 10 January 2003
The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho is considering a new strategy to curb rising farm livestock theft costing millions of dollars — tracking and identifying animals through microchips implanted under their skin.
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/ 10 January 2003
China has donated 4 500 tons of maize to famine-hit Zimbabwe, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Friday.
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/ 10 January 2003
The Pan Africanist Congress will focus on bringing stability to the party over the next six months, says Stanley Mogoba, the party’s president. The national executive council (NEC) will hold a meeting next week to agree on one candidate for leadership, Mogoba said.
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/ 10 January 2003
The North Korean nuclear standoff moved a step closer to a peaceful resolution yesterday as Pyongyang set a date for negotiations, amid reports that it was prepared to scrap its weapons programme in return for a security guarantee from the United States.
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/ 10 January 2003
It all started from the most unlikely source: supporters of President Robert Mugabe at the weekend besieged a supermarket and a grain depot to fire the first warning shots that Zimbabwe might be engulfed in serious food riots before Easter.
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/ 10 January 2003
Hundreds of disadvantaged students and local workers could be the ultimate victims of the row over faulty cables supplied for the navy’s first new corvette as a South African company appears set to be made the scapegoat for the problem.
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/ 10 January 2003
An Israeli judge pulled the plug on his prime minister Ariel Sharon mid-way through an angry and rambling television address last night which was meant to deny corruption allegations and win back voters who are fleeing his party in droves.
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/ 10 January 2003
The late Parks Mankahlana, who had an ear for the neat catchphrase, once described President Thabo Mbeki as "a revolutionary nationalist". The problem is that revolutionaries do not make good social democrats.
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/ 10 January 2003
Fighting flared in Ivory Coast’s volatile southwest on Thursday, breaching fresh pledges from all sides to halt hostilities in the nearly 4-month-old war to allow for peace talks in Paris.
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/ 10 January 2003
A senior ruling party official was recovering in a hospital on Thursday after being stoned by an angry mob who believed rumours he was harbouring vampires.