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/ 10 February 2003
The National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka has been slapped with a R180-million defamation lawsuit by controversial businessman Billy Rautenbach, the City Press newspaper reported.
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/ 10 February 2003
The widespread availability of small-arms among Angolan civilians could give rise to an increase in crime and banditry, analysts said on Friday.
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/ 10 February 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma rejects outright allegations that he attempted to secure a bribe from an arms procurement contractor, his office said on Monday.
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/ 10 February 2003
King Mswati III delivered a much anticipated speech on Friday when he opened the Houses of Parliament, but his briefest State of the Kingdom address ever avoided mentioning the on-going political crises, and offered only one new initiative to combat Aids, poverty and the current food crisis.
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/ 10 February 2003
South African pulp and paper producer Sappi on Monday announced that Jonathan Leslie, currently Chief Executive of the Diamonds and Gold Group of Rio Tinto plc, will join the group in April this year as Chief Executive Officer.
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/ 10 February 2003
It was France’s first national truffle fete and the crowds were acting a bit like the wild boar that like to root the luxury fungus out of the soil.
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/ 10 February 2003
The French foreign legionnaires reach a blind spot in the red earth track, halt, and drop silently as cats into western Ivory Coast’s tangled bush. They crouch there, listening. But nothing stirs except chattering insects and startled birds.
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/ 10 February 2003
An 82-year-old Grahamstown woman died in hospital on Sunday after she was brutally assaulted and allegedly gang-raped by three men on Thursday.
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/ 10 February 2003
The Bush administration reacted with rage last night to a Franco-German initiative to extend arms inspections in Iraq, portraying the plan as a thinly disguised attempt to derail the US timetable for war.
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/ 10 February 2003
Israel and the Palestinians begin ceasefire talks today following a previously undisclosed meeting last week between Ariel Sharon and a close associate of Yasser Arafat, the highest level contact between the two sides in a year