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/ 30 January 2003
The International Press Institute on Wednesday condemned plans by the South African government to evict journalists from their offices in the national parliament.
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/ 30 January 2003
The Cape High Court on Wednesday halted any further activities at the controversial R250-million Roodefontein golf estate development at Plettenberg Bay.
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/ 30 January 2003
Authorities in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, have opened a judicial inquiry into massacres and cannibalism alleged to have been perpetrated by Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de liberation du Congo and its ally, the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-National of Roger Lumbala, in the northeastern DRC.
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/ 30 January 2003
Some of the biggest names in corporate America are on a collision course with President Bush over the issue of affirmative action in US universities.
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/ 30 January 2003
The United States has evidence of an orchestrated Iraqi attempt to spy on UN weapons inspectors using hidden microphones and agents, allowing Baghdad to stay one step ahead of the search for banned weapons, US sources said yesterday.
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/ 30 January 2003
It is more than thirty years since the American astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt wandered around the surface of the moon, scooped up several large chunks of rock and flew home. Since their last epic Apollo mission in December 1972, no one has been back.
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/ 30 January 2003
Ariel Sharon yesterday threatened to call another election if the refusal by the battered Labour opposition to join a coalition government forces him into the arms of the far right and ultra-orthodox religious parties.
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/ 30 January 2003
Aids campaigners were yesterday hailing America’s ”work of mercy” after President George Bush pledged to treble spending on combating Aids in some of the world’s poorest countries to -billion over the next five years.
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/ 30 January 2003
Nail’s reported plan to buy 24% of Gauteng youth radio station Yfm could force it to jump through a few hoops – and still not get what it wants. Union Alliance Media, which has gone into liquidation, previously held between 25% and 26% of the station.
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/ 30 January 2003
It is "too early to speculate on interest rates cuts", says South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni. Mboweni, who has just returned from the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, said speculation could start only once inflation had fallen significantly.