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/ 24 January 2003
Details are emerging of the shadowy life of former SADF major-general Tai Minnaar, who died in suspicious circumstances last September. Minnaar was named as part of a team that claims to have evidence showing that SA security forces carried out the murder of Olof Palme.
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/ 24 January 2003
South African Maritime Authority boss Sipho Msikinya stands accused of widespread financial mismanagement, irregularities and massive wasteful expenditure of taxpayers’ money. Samsa is a public entity responsible for sea safety and reports to Minister of Transport Dullah Omar.
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/ 24 January 2003
Technology companies and advocacy groups announced a new lobbying organisation on Thursday to counter Hollywood in the battle over access to digital music, movies and books.
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/ 24 January 2003
Numerous cases of corruption, especially within state-owned enterprises, should force us to pose serious questions about the capability and viability of the black middle class to transform society. This is more so because it, conventional wisdom holds, is the saviour of the new South Africa.
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/ 24 January 2003
Iraqi documents obtained by the BBC appear to suggest that the country’s president, Saddam Hussein, is preparing to use chemical weapons against western troops in the event of war, it was reported on Friday.
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/ 24 January 2003
Cosatu has lashed Telkom’s Khulisa discount share offer as "a threadbare effort to fool our people into thinking that the privatisation of the telecommunications industry will benefit them". Jeff Radebe announced earlier that it was all systems go with the listing.
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/ 24 January 2003
The awards were spread around at an event that is seen as the warm-up for the Oscars, writes Duncan Campbell.
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/ 24 January 2003
Prominent ANC intellectual Pallo Jordan’s election to the party’s most select leadership group, the National Working Committee has been hailed as a boost for the party’s left. Jordan was among the 15 members elected by the NEC at its three-day meeting beginning last Friday.
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/ 24 January 2003
The international advocacy group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has said that a crucial boundary ruling last year rejected many of Ethiopia’s claims to territory after its war with Eritrea.
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/ 24 January 2003
Barely six months after its Registrar and Prosecutor arrived to take up their assignments, the special court for Sierra Leone has moved its registry and administrative branches into its new site in the centre of the capital, Freetown.