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South Africa has imposed a ban on the importation of all cloven-hooved animals and their products from Botswana following a suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in that country, the agriculture department said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 January 2003
Hispanic women in Pennsylvania suffer twice the national rate of HIV infection.
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/ 15 January 2003
An awaiting trial prisoner — charged with indecently assaulting a fellow male inmate of Pollsmoor Prison — is to sue the media and prison authorities for identifying him before he pleaded to the charges.
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/ 15 January 2003
Police questioned three North African men on Wednesday after an officer was slain during an anti-terrorism raid linked to the recent discovery of the deadly poison ricin in London.
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/ 15 January 2003
Tatolo Setlai, the Free State prison chief who played a high-profile role in revealing corruption in the Grootvlei prison outside Bloemfontein to the Jali Commission of Enquiry, was arrested on Wednesday for alleged corruption.
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/ 15 January 2003
Trade ministers from across Africa and a large delegation led by their counterparts from the United States are meeting in Mauritius this week to discuss a law key to trade and development relations between the world’s richest country and its poorest continent.
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/ 15 January 2003
The special adviser to Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Dr Mario Oriano-Ambrosini, said today that there was nothing inappropriate about his relationship with Cape Town millionaire businessman Cyril Kern.
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/ 15 January 2003
Agricultural experts fear that adverse weather and government policies could soon expose South Africans to the kind of famine that is devastating communities in neighbouring countries. El Niño caused unusually dry conditions in the southern hemisphere.
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/ 15 January 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair landed another blow to his battered relations with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday by welcoming the leader of Israel’s opposition Labour Party to London just three weeks before a general election.
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/ 15 January 2003
Matt Barr is 21, the same age that I was the year the Vietnam War ended and the last disgraced vestiges of American intervention were airlifted over the rooftops of Saigon. In the next few months, if the war against Iraq looks like going ahead, Barr plans to be part of a human shield protecting potential civilian targets.