President Thabo Mbeki, accompanied by Parliamentary Speaker Frene
Ginwala, waves to crowds at the opening of the 2002 Parliamentary
Session February 8, 2002. In his address Mbeki announced that the
country would send an observer mission to Zimbabwe to monitor that
country's Presidential elections due next month. Mbeki also said that
his government would attempt to resolve all South African land
restitution claims within three years and promised to broaden the fight
against poverty and AIDS. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

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