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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has welcomed the election of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as Somalia’s transitional president and pledged that the world body will fully support efforts to restore stability in the war-torn Horn of Africa country. The election was held on Sunday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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The Noupoort Christian Care Centre (NCCC), the controversial drug rehabilitation facility, is to ask the High Court to review a decision by Director General of Social Development Vusi Madonsela to close it down. The NCCC’s attorney said the NCCC has been treated unfairly by the department and will oppose its closure ”all the way”.
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South Africa’s most famous township, Soweto, synonymous with the struggle against apartheid, kicked off centenary celebrations on Tuesday with a tree-planting ceremony symbolising a new era of freedom and growth. An African pine tree was planted as organisers geared up for weeks of celebrations to mark the founding of Soweto.
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/ 12 October 2004
A Soweto man was woken up from a nap on Tuesday by the sound of a bulldozer crashing through his house, Johannesburg emergency services said. The bulldozer had been carrying out roadworks in Doornkop, on the western border of Soweto, when the driver experienced brake failure, spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said.
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/ 12 October 2004
After months of fund-raising, Norwegian activists on Tuesday paid for United States newspaper advertisements telling President George Bush he was wrong to invade Iraq and should pull out his troops. The activists are bound largely by a website that uses Norway’s two-letter internet code "no" as part of its message: <i>Tellhim.no</i>.
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/ 12 October 2004
The judge in the Schabir Shaik corruption trial on Tuesday turned down an application by e.tv to televise proceedings, but left the door open for broadcast of the closing stages of the case. E.tv said it will study the judgement and consider whether to launch a Constitutional Court challenge.
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/ 12 October 2004
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Tuesday queried the part played by President Thabo Mbeki in South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms acquisition programme, saying the "full story" of his role remains among a number of unanswered questions about the controversial deal.
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/ 12 October 2004
The Democratic Alliance has called for the trustees of the South African National Aids Trust, including Deputy President Jacob Zuma and Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, to appear before Parliament’s health portfolio committee to account for the trust’s activities.
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/ 12 October 2004
Thirty Gabonese villagers have been arrested following an attack last month on a police station in the south of the country, in which two police officers were killed, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. Each suspect’s involvement in the attack on the police station has not yet been defined, he said.
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/ 12 October 2004
Interpol resources will be moved to where they are needed, said the newly appointed president of the international policing organisation, Jackie Selebi, in Pretoria on Tuesday. His priority will be to redirect resources to weaker countries. This will include the establishment of a centre in Africa to pool information on international terrorism.