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/ 27 October 2006
Nicaragua on Thursday night voted to outlaw all forms of abortion, including operations to save a pregnant woman’s life, after a campaign by the Catholic church. The main political parties supported a bill establishing jail sentences of six to 30 years for women who terminate their pregnancies and doctors who perform the procedure.
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/ 27 October 2006
Six years after the emergence of the now infamous ”hanging chad” in the 2000 presidential elections, monitoring groups warn that technological glitches and hackers could throw next month’s mid-term elections into chaos. A report this week by electionline.org, a non-partisan organisation, anticipates problems at the ballot box in as many as 10 states.
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/ 27 October 2006
The tribal chiefs, in traditional robes and chequered headdresses, emerged from the dust stirred up by their convoy of pick-up trucks and walked towards the big white tent. The 35 Sunni sheikhs converged last week on Hindiya to swear their undying opposition to ”conspiracies” to partition Iraq and to pledge allegiance to their president, Saddam Hussein.
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/ 27 October 2006
The United Nation’s food agency on Thursday said a huge gap in funding could see food aid cut to up to 4,3-million people in the Southern Africa region. ”The -million funding shortfall comes just as the annual ‘lean season’ approaches, when people have to wait until next March or April for the next harvest,” a statement by the World Food Programme said.
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/ 27 October 2006
Domestic inflationary pressures in South Africa remain on the boiler, despite the pullback in international energy prices, according to Moody’s <i>Economy.com</i>. Benchmark oil continues to hover around the $60 mark, dipping about 30% from its August peak in response to improved supply-side dynamics such as easing tensions in the Middle East.
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/ 27 October 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>The Ice Harvest</i>, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton.
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/ 27 October 2006
First she was a play, now Miss KwaKwa comes to town in Stephen Simm’s debut novel. Tumi Makgetla examines the origins and aspirations of this wannabe celebrity.
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/ 27 October 2006
The name of the late kwaito trailblazer will remain embedded in musical history, writes Maria McCloy.
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/ 27 October 2006
Author Christopher Hope tells it like he sees it when writing about Africa — and he’s seen a lot of it, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 27 October 2006
And so race re-enters the debate about the media. SABC CEO Dali Mpofu says the current furore about blacklisting is all about ”wresting control” of the corporation from ”the barbarians”. He writes in City Press that a ”right-wing lobby and its fellow travellers in the mass media” is attacking the SABC for ”not feeding into their gluttonous, greedy smell of black blood which must be sacrificed at every whim”.