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/ 20 November 2002
Prisoners in South Africa’s most overcrowded jail are forced to sleep in shifts because there is not enough room for all of them to lie down, the Jali Commission heard on Wednesday.
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/ 20 November 2002
Springbok loose-forward Bob Skinstad will play for the Cats in the 2003 Vodacom Rugby Super 12 season.
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/ 20 November 2002
South Africa’s rand was steady against the dollar on Wednesday, consolidating after recent hefty gains which propelled the unit to year highs, traders said.
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/ 20 November 2002
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is to announce its findings on complaints lodged against Sport and Recreation Minister Ngconde Balfour and former Cape Town mayor Peter Marais on Thursday.
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/ 19 November 2002
A new report by the World Bank provides evidence to development agencies and governments that a free press can reduce poverty and boost economic development.
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/ 19 November 2002
A Zulu translation of <i>The Communist Manifesto</i> will be released on Tuesday, more than 150 years after the original was published. And it has already set off a bout of broedertwis among the comrades.
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/ 19 November 2002
Uhuru Kenyatta owes a lot to his name. Less than a year after entering politics, the 42-year-old son of Kenya’s founding father will fight the presidential election next month for the party that has ruled for almost 40 years. On the campaign trail one can see the power of the name.
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/ 19 November 2002
In a rare extended interview, Desmond Tutu speaks of his illness, race relations, SA’s ”allergy” to debate and the role of a post-apartheid opposition and the church. Drew Forrest interviewed the 71-year-old Nobel laureate at his office in Cape Town.
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/ 19 November 2002
Libyan troops will leave the Central African Republic (CAR), where they have been protecting President Ange-Felix Patasse since a coup attempt in May 2001, and will be replaced by a Central African peacekeeping force, a CAR official said on Wednesday.