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/ 6 February 2003
Ted Turner, the maverick media tycoon, last night suggested an epitaph for his tombstone. ”I have nothing more to say.” Until then, he clearly still has plenty.
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/ 6 February 2003
The United Nations has decided to pull its non-essential staff out of Ivory Coast, riven by a five-month rebel war, diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2003
A R4-million school will be built in an informal settlement, Marokolong, near Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria after a successful partnership was brokered between the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the North West government and Nampak.
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/ 6 February 2003
The Road Accident Fund expressed support on Thursday for a new system to compensate road accident victims, but resisted calls for its own demise.
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/ 6 February 2003
More than 10 000 people were forced out of a camp for people displaced by a rebellion in northern Uganda after a fire burned down thousands of mud and straw huts in the camp, an official said on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2003
South African defence lawyer George Bizos on Thursday put the credibility of the star witness to the test in the high treason trial of Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Bizos accused him of being a ”fraudster” and of spinning ”untruths”.
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/ 6 February 2003
The Asset Forfeiture Unit confirmed on Wednesday it has requested the New National Party hold in trust a R300 000 donation linked to the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development.
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/ 6 February 2003
A Nigerian university has expelled 432 students for allegedly impersonating or using forged documents to gain admission, a university official said on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2003
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday met with President John Kufuor of neighbouring Ghana, who urged him to implement a peace deal brokered by Paris to end a ruinous five-month war in Ivory Coast, diplomatic sources said.