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Parliament heard in the second week of March that 70% of people living in Ceres, one of South Africa’s agricultural powerhouses, experience hunger. A survey of 540 households in the poor communities of Ceres showed that hunger increased in winter months when jobs outside the peak seasonal harvest times became scarce.
Outbursts by senior Pan Africanist Congress leaders will come under the spotlight in the third weekend in March when the national executive committee (NEC) meets to discuss ways of forging unity within the party. Facing the party’s wrath will be MP Patricia de Lille, who was reported to have declared the PAC dead.
The Nigerian government has refuted suggestions that it differs with South Africa over the situation in Zimbabwe and the future of President Robert Mugabe.
North-West premier Popo Molefe has vehemently denied child molestation allegations of a pre-teen relative levelled against him by his ex-wife in a <i>Mail & Guardian</i> article.<br>
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair held an emergency ”war Cabinet” meeting yesterday to finalise plans for military action against Iraq and demand that the United Nations comes to a decision on the vital second resolution against Saddam Hussein within 24 hours.
Activists in South Africa are planning to launch a civil disobedience campaign this week to pressure President Thabo Mbeki into introducing anti-retroviral drugs to combat the HIV-Aids plague that is costing this country an estimated 600 lives a day.
Opium cultivation has reached record levels in Afghanistan, warns the World Bank president. He said drugs are now a bigger earner for the Afghan economy than overseas aid.
Her uncle might be the most feared terrorist in the world, but Osama bin Laden’s niece is about to try and take the world of pop music by storm.
On the check-out desk at Santa Cruz public library, beside the usual signs asking people to keep quiet and to return their books on time, there is what might be called a sign of the times…