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/ 17 February 2006
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma’s legal team is set to launch an application to set aside corruption and fraud charges against him. The bid to knock out the state’s case — based on the claim that the former deputy president’s right to a fair trial has been unfairly prejudiced — was mooted last year, but has now been set in motion, Zuma’s attorney Michael Hulley confirmed on Thursday.
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/ 17 February 2006
History contends that the ashes of Saint Joan of Arc were gathered up from the pyre on which she was burned alive and tossed into the River Seine. Anxious to avoid creating a martyr, the English, who had ordered her death in 1431, wanted nothing left of the 19-year-old French heroine. According to legend, a devoted follower managed to find and conceal some of her remains.
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/ 17 February 2006
”As a Zionist, an Israeli citizen and the ambassador of Israel to South Africa, I read with a great deal of frustration Ronnie Kasrils’s article published under the banner ”Myths of Zionism” (January 27). It is frustrating from the point of view of the content, as well as that of the commentator”, Ilan Baruch, ambassador of Israel to South Africa.
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/ 17 February 2006
Concern is growing among European governments about United States plans to involve them in an expanded, all-out campaign against Islamist extremism from North Africa to South-East Asia, using beefed-up special forces, high-tech weaponry and more intrusive surveillance and intelligence gathering.
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/ 17 February 2006
Oprah is a Zulu. Never mind that she was born and raised in Mississippi and her great-grandparents hailed from no further away than Georgia and North Carolina, Winfrey is not just suggesting her lineage might stretch back thousands of years to a specific African tribe. She is asserting it as a definitive fact.
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/ 17 February 2006
After a grisly series of civilian deaths from bombings in downtown Samarra, Hekmat Mumtaz, leader of the Al Bu Baz tribe, met local al-Qaeda commander Abu Abdullah and asked him to halt operations inside population centres. Mumtaz had himself been released only a month earlier after spending a year in United States detention facilities.
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/ 17 February 2006
Having confirmed her ambitions to be Dr Dolittle by wearing his hat to the opening of Parliament, Minister of Potions Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang now says people with Aids are welcome to try their luck with traditional healers. The manne are incensed that she should be passing the buck once again, but Lemmer disagrees.
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/ 17 February 2006
Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark and the stench is being smelt the world over. The spontaneous expression of outrage in Muslim communities around the world, sparked by the Danish cartoons, has surprised many. Its magnitude has led some to question its spontaneity by speculating whether a hidden hand orchestrated this reaction.
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/ 17 February 2006
”The latest round of culture wars does neither side any good. The Western civilisational fundamentalists insist on seeing Muslims as the other — different, alien and morally evil. Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons in bad faith. Its aim was not to engage in debate but to provoke,” writes author Tariq Ali.
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/ 17 February 2006
For many reasons, President Yoweri Museveni’s army is the key to Uganda’s first multiparty election in 25 years. Not surprisingly then, his people are trumpeting his National Resistance Movement as the only party that can control the army. Museveni won elections in 1996 and 2001.