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/ 3 February 2003
Iraqi peasant women wearing long black gowns over their brightly-coloured dresses pick tomatoes along the border with Kuwait within easy range of the big guns of the US army.
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/ 3 February 2003
Gencor, the South African mining holding company, has set Monday, February 3 as the deadline for claimants to against the company for alleged asbestos mining-related illnesses to accept its settlement offer.
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/ 3 February 2003
The first ever African Union summit, which opens on Monday, comes at a critical time. While African leaders try to resolve key sticking points hampering the six-month old organisation, crises rage in countries such as Ivory Coast, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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/ 3 February 2003
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa urged the Eastern Cape government on Monday to act against the mayor of the OR Tambo district municipality, whom he accused of corruption.
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/ 3 February 2003
Deputy South African Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad today refused to condemn the treason trial of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, indicating that the law must take its course.
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/ 3 February 2003
Every Australian household from this week will receive a government-sponsored anti-terrorism kit designed to help citizens identify terrorists, under a scheme launched on Monday.
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/ 3 February 2003
While uncertainty reigns over whether or not Johnnic Communications (Johncom or JCM) will dispose of any of its assets in the near future, it appears there would be no shortage of takers if it did decide to sell.
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/ 3 February 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was modestly firmer at midday on Monday, but well off its intraday high.
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/ 3 February 2003
London and South Africa-listed beverages group SABMiller plc announced on Monday that it is to dispose of the trademarks "Just Juice", a juice brand, and "Valpre", a water brand, to The Coca Cola Company for $13-million in cash.
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/ 3 February 2003
An alarming report on the world-wide contamination of mercury is one of the topics to be addressed by the UN Environmental Programme conference that opened on Monday in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.