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/ 15 February 2006
As a magazine editor in 1993, I made a tough judgement call to spike a Zapiro cartoon portraying Mangosuthu Buthelezi with the mouth of a violent volcano. The reason was that our sellers’ lives could have been at risk in KwaZulu-Natal had we carried the cartoon.
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/ 15 February 2006
A prominent Italian government figure planned on Wednesday to wear a T-shirt sporting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent reactions from Muslims around the world as fresh protests against the cartoons engulfed Pakistan, leaving Western businesses in flames and three people dead, including an eight-year-old boy.
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/ 15 February 2006
The Johannesburg High Court has indefinitely postponed the hearing of Imvume Management’s application against the Freedom Front Plus over its disclosure to Parliament of payments allegedly made from an advance by PetroSA. The postponement granted is to allow Imvume’s lawyers to finalise investigations.
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/ 15 February 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has allocated R580-million for the development of the pebble-bed modular reactor for the 2006/07 financial year. In the Budget review released on Wednesday, the minister said that the allocation will be made to the Department of Public Enterprises.
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/ 15 February 2006
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most popular buildings in the world, with nearly five million visitors yearly and 250Â 000 on guided tours. In what is a first for a major tourist attraction in Australia, the Opera House is now offering guided tours in Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.
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/ 15 February 2006
Spending on social services remains the key component of South Africa’s Budget, rising from R229,8-billion in 2005/06 to R262-billion in 2006/07. Education remains the biggest consolidated Budget item at R110,3-billion in the 2008/09 estimates. Education received R83,5-billion in 2005/06.
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/ 15 February 2006
For many Cambodians, the perfect end to a hard day at work is relaxing with friends over a nice, plump, deep-fried rat and a glass of local wine, according to vendors of the sought-after snack. The Year of the Dog has already proven a bumper year for the local delicacy, vendors in the north-western provincial capital of Battambang say.
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/ 15 February 2006
European experts scrambled on Wednesday to hammer out a response to a fast-developing bird-flu threat, as the lethal H5N1 strain spread into Germany, the latest country to be hit by the virus in days. The H5N1 strain has killed at least 90 people mostly in eastern Asia, but also in Turkey and northern Iraq.
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/ 15 February 2006
South Africa’s rail commuter system will get R4,5-billion in capital subsidies over the next three years, according to the Budget Review. The review, released on Wednesday together with Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Budget, notes that the system "faces urgent challenges".
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/ 15 February 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has unveiled a "good news for all" Budget for the next three years, providing for lower Budget deficits between 2005 and 2009, tax relief of R19,1-billion in 2006-07, and additional spending of R82-billion on priority infrastructure projects.