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/ 28 January 2003
Libya’s Colonel Moammer Gadaffi is not going to let up being Africa’s gadfly. Members of the AU are no better at dealing with him than the Arab League was. At Sun City a select group of 18 countries wrestled with the last of the constitutional amendments Gadaffi proposed.
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/ 28 January 2003
It has already been dubbed ”doing a Hillary [Clinton]”’. Ana Botella, the striking wife of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, this month announced she’s standing for election as a city councillor in Madrid for the ruling centre-right Popular Party. Not surprisingly, the press is fascinated.
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/ 27 January 2003
Robertsham Primary School suffered an estimated R30 000 damage due to an explosion at a nearby fibreglass factory on Saturday, but principal Sharon Lynch still has reason to be grateful.
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/ 27 January 2003
Pretoria is not convinced European Union sanctions against Zimbabwe will produce the desired effect, South African Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Parliament’s public accounts committee (Scopa) began 2002 deeply divided and maligned over the multi-billion rand arms deal, but new chairman Francois Beukman is now confident Scopa is back on track for 2003.
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/ 27 January 2003
Internet engineers in the Asia Pacific region remained vigilant on Monday after a weekend attack by a highly contagious computer worm severely disrupted global web traffic.
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/ 27 January 2003
An accord on the controversial issue of access to life-saving cheap medicines at the World Trade Organisation is ”fairly close”, the chief executive of US drug company Pfizer, Henry McKinnell, said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Parliament’s public accounts committee (Scopa) began 2002 deeply divided and maligned over the multi-billion rand arms deal, but new chairman Francois Beukman is now confident Scopa is back on track for 2003.
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/ 27 January 2003
A total of 268 houses and 30 factories were damaged in the explosion that destroyed a fibreglass factory in Robertsham on Saturday, Johannesburg’s emergency services said on Monday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Traffic snarled as it does on every other working morning. The football stadium filled up with raucous, cheering, trumpet-tooting supporters, and Saddam Hussein’s eldest son blared out a blistering message of defiance. But what everybody in Baghdad knew, and was often left unsaid, was that today could be judgement day.
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