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/ 16 September 2006
After months of speculation that former National Intelligence Agency chief Billy Masetlha would be charged for his role in the alleged fabrication of ”hoax” e-mails, Masetlha was this week only charged with failing to cooperate with investigations by the Inspector General of Intelligence.
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/ 16 September 2006
Membership of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has stagnated since it ballooned to 1,8-million nearly a decade ago — and the federation is still wrestling with the consequences of that growth spurt. A survey has found Cosatu has failed to penetrate non-traditional sectors of the economy.
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/ 16 September 2006
The repatriation of Angolan refugees is creating food shortages in and around the Zambian camps they have lived in for decades. Zambia hosts about 143Â 000 refugees from Africa’s civil wars and politically unstable regions, including Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda.
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/ 16 September 2006
In an important policy shift, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday announced that it is urging the use of the pesticide DDT to control the spread of malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills about one million people a year, most of whom are infants and young children in Africa.
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/ 16 September 2006
Gender principles and commitments fly through the window, old-fashioned myths on HIV surface. Usually outspoken, Blade Nzimande is reduced to mumbling. Structures remain silent or waffle. Unity is invoked while throats are torn. A strong left is essential. So how have we descended so quickly?
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/ 16 September 2006
A Ugandan newspaper is outing gays and lesbians because it considers that ”African culture does not condone this sort of thing”, Arinaitwe Rugando, a senior editor at the paper, told the Mail & Guardian. Over the past two months, Red Pepper has published the first names of 45 gay men and 13 lesbians.
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/ 16 September 2006
Forty years after Alfred Nobel’s invention of dynamite, Russian terrorists tried to pack a plane with the stuff and fly it into the tsar’s palace. In 1883, Chicago-financed Fenians exploded bombs on the London underground. There has been little change in the preferred weapon of terror, the explosive device, or in the psychopathology of the bomber. The causes remain the same. What has changed, grotesquely, is the aftershock.
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/ 16 September 2006
Home Affairs Department portfolio committee chairperson Patrick Chauke says he will not allow his religious beliefs to interfere with the way he and his committee deal with draft legislation on gay marriages. He was speaking outside Parliament on Saturday, after receiving a memorandum from several thousand Christians to protest against the Civil Unions Bill.
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/ 16 September 2006
In the dusty, broken village of Aita al-Shaab, where almost every house bears the scars of the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, the war still lingers a month after it officially ended. Israeli tanks and bulldozers roam back and forth across the border at night, locals say, while Hezbollah fighters patrol the thick green hills above the village.
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/ 16 September 2006
The multinational oil distribution company whose toxic waste has killed six people in Côte d’Ivoire’s capital, Abidjan, this week expressed concern about the rising number of people who are falling ill, but said it had not violated international conventions on the disposal of toxic waste.