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/ 18 November 2002
<b>Obituary: Mark Chavunduka</b>. Mark Chavunduka, the Zimbabwean newspaper editor whose torture by state agents in 1999 served to focus world attention on President Robert Mugabe’s policies towards the media, has died, family members confirmed on Wednesday.
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/ 18 November 2002
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein set himself on an early collision course with the US and Britain this week by defiantly continuing to insist he has no weapons of mass destruction. He bowed to international pressure by accepting weapons inspectors.
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/ 18 November 2002
A Malaysian businessman caused confusion in the Namibian High Court this week when he claimed ownership of a diamond mine that was the focus of another wrangle. Tuesday’s case was supposed to settle a dispute over a diamond claim on the Skeleton Coast.
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/ 18 November 2002
Former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni, who is facing charges of corruption and fraud in court, is being backed by the ANC Youth League, Mpumalanga and the Western Cape for re-election to the party’s national executive committee.
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/ 18 November 2002
A procedural hiccup has delayed the widely expected appointment of Judge Dikgang Moseneke to the Constitutional Court. It is understood the DA leader, Tony Leon, objected to the manner of consultation from the presidency.
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/ 18 November 2002
South Africa’s rand was steady at a year high against the dollar early on Monday and seen confined to a range with some importer interest seen below the 9,60 level, traders said.
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/ 18 November 2002
South African gold and platinum shares lifted the Johannesburg bourse in early afternoon trade on Monday, but financial stocks edged weaker on profit-taking, dealers said.
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/ 18 November 2002
Singapore network specialist Datacraft Asia Ltd is expected to post its first full-year loss on Thursday, as it takes the full force of its bad debt and restructuring charges while customer orders remain dismal. A survey of five analysts showed the region’s largest network systems integrator was expected to record a net loss of $25-million […]
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/ 18 November 2002
A bomb blast damaged the offices of the police’s serious and violent crimes unit in Cape Town on Saturday night, but no deaths or injuries were caused. Western Cape police representative Captain Neville Malila said the front door and windows of the serious and violet crimes unit — housed in a building some 50-80m away […]
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