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/ 21 September 2004
The government will spend R1-billion in allowances to ensure health professionals are available in rural areas and the public health sector, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Tuesday. The strategy will ”address the broader challenge of migration of health personnel from rural to urban areas”, she said.
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/ 21 September 2004
Call it the kitty’s third life. Roxio bought the Napster brand name and feline logo at a bankruptcy auction two years ago and with the acquisition of another music service, pressplay, relaunched the once-renegade file-swapping pioneer as a legal music service last October.
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/ 21 September 2004
Mahatma Gandhi’s iron-fisted control over the life of his son is the focus of a newly released book in South Africa, written by his great-granddaughter. Controversially titled Gandhi’s Prisoner? The Life of Gandhi’s Son, Manilal, the 400-page book released last week is written by Uma Dhuphelia-Mesthrie and explores the Gandhi family’s early years in South Africa in the early 1900s.
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/ 21 September 2004
Passwords alone won’t be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log on service that makes AOL the first major United States online business to offer customers a second layer of security. The so-called two-factor authentication scheme, being unveiled on Tuesday, will cost ,95 a month in addition to a one-time ,95 fee.
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/ 21 September 2004
Eritrea has criticised as ”out of place” portions of last week’s United Nations Security Council resolution that renewed the mandate of a peacekeeping force deployed on its border with Ethiopia, saying it ”places both the law-abiding party [Eritrea] and the one that completely violates international law [Ethiopia] on an equal footing”.
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/ 21 September 2004
Inmates and guards at Kuwait’s central jail asked for help from state and prison authorities to rid two cell blocks from what they believe to be ghosts, the al-Siyassa newspaper reported on Tuesday. Some of the ghosts are said to be appearing at night with incomplete bodies and flying through the air.
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/ 21 September 2004
Closing off public spaces with boom gates is putting up a laager and reinstating apartheid — and it is also illegal, the South African Human Rights Commission heard on Tuesday. The commission is hearing submissions on whether communities should be allowed to restrict access to public areas to feel safer.
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/ 21 September 2004
A Zimbabwe court is to hand down a verdict on October 15 in the trial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who is accused of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, his party said. Tsvangirai, who could face the death sentence if convicted, is accused of conspiring to murder Mugabe and arrange a military coup.
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/ 21 September 2004
Burundi’s main Tutsi political parties have presented an alternative Constitution for the Central African nation, saying their basic law is more balanced than the text passed by Parliament last week. The draft Constitution incorporates articles that were proposed in a power-sharing accord signed in Pretoria at the beginning of last month.
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/ 21 September 2004
Defying a key demand set by 35 nations, Iran announced on Tuesday that it has started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons. "Tests are going on successfully" to make the feed stock for enrichment, said Iranian Vice-President Reza Aghazadeh.
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