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/ 23 January 2003
Less than 10% of employers have registered their employees for unemployment benefits, a survey conducted by the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) revealed on Wednesday.
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/ 23 January 2003
The US secretary of state, Colin Powell said yesterday that UN weapons inspections in Iraq ”will not work” and there was little point in prolonging them.
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/ 23 January 2003
Chinese paleontologists have discovered the fossil of an extraordinary, previously unknown four-winged dinosaur, throwing fresh kindling on a smouldering century-old debate about the origin of birds.
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/ 23 January 2003
The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, launched a multi-sectoral anti-corruption task team for the Eastern Cape at a ceremony in East London on Thursday.
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/ 23 January 2003
Two exiled rebel leaders from war-torn Burundi will return within the next two weeks, a South African official said on Wednesday, amid reports of clashes which left thousands fleeing their homes.
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/ 23 January 2003
Angolan journalists on Wednesday expressed solidarity with staff of a privately owned weekly, Angolense, which faces legal action from senior officials accused of embezzlement.
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/ 23 January 2003
The vice president of Clonaid, which says it has now cloned three babies, was ordered to appear in court next week after refusing to testify in detail about the headline-grabbing claim many experts consider to be a hoax.
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/ 23 January 2003
Three rightwingers, facing charges of high treason, on Thursday accused a magistrate who refused them bail of being biased. The judge described the application as ”impetuous”.
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/ 23 January 2003
At least 29 fighters were killed in heavy clashes on Wednesday between Ivory Coast soldiers and Liberians fighting for two rebel movements in the west of the country, a representative for the Ivorian army said.
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/ 23 January 2003
Sweeping plans to revamp and reduce Europe’s controversial £30bn common agricultural policy subsidies were unveiled yesterday in a move certain to spark French opposition.