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/ 10 February 2006
In this country, Section 16(2) of the Constitution curtails the constitutionally entrenched right to free speech in the case of advocacy of hatred that is based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and that constitutes incitement to cause harm. The ”and” in the clause means a cartoon that satirises a religious figure does not fall outside the scope of constitutional protection.
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/ 10 February 2006
A stressed-out security guard opened fire on a woman who jumped the queue at a branch of Thailand’s largest bank, police said on Friday. The 33-year-old guard was charged with attempted murder for shooting a university student on Thursday after a quarrel that erupted when a queue-ticketing machine broke down.
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/ 10 February 2006
Cheesemaker Arnaldo Blanc, who keeps a menagerie of cows and roosters in a smelly, hay-strewn basement below the kitchen, knows his village is dying. Set in the icy crags of a 2 900m peak called Ciantiplagna, Balboutet is only a half-hour drive from the main venue for ski jumping and about 100km from the
host city of Turin.
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/ 10 February 2006
A vicious attack upon returning to Kenya after 22 years has not deterred Ngugi wa Thiong’o from exposing despotism. He speaks to Maya Jaggi.
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/ 10 February 2006
A new fuel scheme in place at London’s Heathrow airport was good news for South African Airways as it ended diversions via Milan, the airline said on Thursday. ”It is good news on one hand but, on the other, something they can withdraw at a day’s notice,” SAA flight operations general manager Colin Jordaan said.
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/ 10 February 2006
Commercial passenger flights into space could be authorised in the United States by 2008, US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a group of space entrepreneurs on Thursday. ”The timeline isn’t based on science fiction,” he said in a statement released by the department.
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/ 10 February 2006
Whether you peed in snowballs and chucked them at your friends or fed your unsuspecting vegetarian sister some meat, chances are your most embarrassing, tightly-held secrets are yearning for an audience. That’s where United States artist Frank Warren comes in. He has hit upon an ingenious outlet for all those dirty little secrets we mischievously, or shamefully hide.
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/ 10 February 2006
A World Bank land expert and a prominent left-leaning South African academic have both dismissed the idea that the government is planning large-scale expropriation of private farmland. President Thabo Mbeki said in his State of the Nation speech that the Land Affairs Department would review the ”willing-seller, willing-buyer” principle to speed up land reform.
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/ 10 February 2006
René Préval, who took an huge early lead in Haiti’s presidential elections, is a former ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, though he has distanced himself from the former president who fled in 2004. Préval took over 61% of the vote with 15% of the ballots counted, more than 48% ahead of his closest rival.
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/ 10 February 2006
The gut-wrenching stench of rotting flesh hangs in the air in this remote northeastern Kenyan village where the putrefying carcasses of cattle are a testament to a searing drought that threatens millions with starvation across east Africa.