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/ 31 December 2002
<b>OBITUARY: ERNEST MANCOBA:</b>
The doyen of the visual artists of South Africa, died on October 25 in a hospital at Clamart (near Paris, France) at the age of 98.
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/ 31 December 2002
The year 2002 in Africa will surely go down in history as the year of the woman. When African men stood around, wringing their hands, or sores, justifying their paralysis in the face of tyranny, abuse of power, and religious bigotry, the women of Africa stood up to be counted.
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/ 31 December 2002
Millions of Germans and other continental Europeans will settle down in front of their TV sets tonight for what has become a New Year’s Eve ritual — the showing of an aged British comedy sketch that is unknown in the UK.
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/ 31 December 2002
Defending their sport against criticism that it’s too dangerous, parachutists took turns leaping off the world’s tallest buildings on Sunday at the start of a rare tournament of extreme skydiving.
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/ 31 December 2002
The Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was always a joker whose antics included making an unannounced visit on the British queen, jumping into a swimming pool with his pyjamas on during a summit of African leaders and declaring himself the ”last king of Scotland.”
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/ 31 December 2002
As Daniel arap Moi raised his ivory club to speak as Kenya’s president for the last time yesterday, a street-boy wriggled onto the dais beside him.
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/ 31 December 2002
Zimbabwe’s sole daily newspaper outside ruling party control on Tuesday failed to publish for the tenth successive day, following the departure of its award-winning founder-editor, Geoffrey Nyarota, in a management row many believe has deep political overtones.
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/ 31 December 2002
Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, the world’s 12th largest bourse, said on Tuesday it aims to sign cooperation agreements with three foreign exchanges in 2003 to promote cross-border trading.
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/ 31 December 2002
The Reagan administration and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons ”almost daily” against Iran, it was reported yesterday.
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/ 31 December 2002
The prospect of England boycotting their controversial World Cup cricket match in Zimbabwe grew last night as the government agreed to meet the England and Wales Cricket Board to discuss the implications of withdrawing from the fixture.