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/ 28 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s Senate poll is scheduled for this weekend, but there is little sign of the customary heated political activity. Incidents of violence hardly register on the radar screen. Ructions in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) over participation have dominated the run-up to the poll
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/ 28 November 2005
About R37million has been transferred from underspending Western Cape government departments to relieve pressure on the beleaguered N2 Gateway Project. About R24million will be shifted from various departments to local government and housing "to mitigate the pressures of the N2 Gateway Project".
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/ 28 November 2005
Michelle Bachelet was a 23-year-old medical student in Chile when a gang of military men broke into her house and kidnapped her and her mother, Angela Jeria. It was January 1975, and the Chilean secret police officers were crushing protests and eliminating civilians on the orders of military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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/ 28 November 2005
”I am tiring of technocratic talk. Joel Netshitenzhe’s most recent statement, that the government would not change its mind on the provinces it has assigned to cross-border municipalities because to give in to peoples’s demands would be a ‘perverse incentive’, is really so much hogwash,” writes Rapule Tabane.
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/ 28 November 2005
Walking home with her two classmates after a morning’s lessons Mirjana looks dumbfounded when asked if she has any Muslim friends. Ask a silly question, her expression says. The 16-year-old girl has grown up in a country at peace. Zepce is split 50-50 between Catholic Croats and Bosnian Muslims. But the two do not mix. Mirjana wants to keep it that way.
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/ 28 November 2005
According to the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Jacob Zuma (JZ) is subject to a political agenda that seeks to marginalise left and working-class forces to promote the interests of a small elite capitalist faction within the African National Congress.
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/ 28 November 2005
Forty miners were killed and another 115 were listed as missing after an explosion at a coal mine in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province, the government said on Monday. A total of 220 miners were underground when the accident at the Dongfeng coal mine occurred at 9.40pm on Sunday, with 65 miners so far rescued, the State Administration for Coal Mine Safety said on its website.
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/ 28 November 2005
”When I left Japan in 2003, things were looking terminally gloomy. For most of the previous seven years reporting from Tokyo, I had written an unrelenting stream of miserable stories about salarymen suicides, zombie companies and a corrupt one-party political system dying slowly from sclerosis,” writes The Guardian‘s Jonathan Watts.
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/ 28 November 2005
The return to Namibia’s Parliament last week of a Swapo leader who was axed from Cabinet — at the height of the presidential succession battle little over a year ago by then head of state Sam Nujoma — has accentuated divisions in the ruling party.
Hidipo Hamutenya arrived at the National Assembly with hordes of cheering supporters making barely disguised jibes at Nujoma.
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/ 28 November 2005
It takes guts to dance in the midst of a baying arena of alcohol-fuelled Australian farmers wearing an oversized daisy pinned to a Superman shirt and oversized shorts held up by crimson braces. To do it when a tonne of angry Brahmin bull is charging towards you with lowered horns takes something close to lunacy.