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/ 12 December 2005
Against a background of raised political temperatures, Professor Tawana Kupe enagaged with Dr Snuki Zikalala, the SABC’s MD of news and current affairs, at the recent Harold Wolpe Lecture Series. He gives here a summary of the disagreements.
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/ 12 December 2005
An enormous cheer rises into the Bagram sky. In a pink bikini top, miniskirt and red Father Christmas hat, the voluptuous Lilian Garcia has appeared to give thousands of GIs an early Christmas present: the superstars of American wrestling here, in the Afghan desert. Close to 5Â 000 soldiers are packed around a wrestling ring rigged up on the tarmac of the biggest United States base.
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/ 12 December 2005
Reports on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference have increasingly focused on the expected failure of this meeting to achieve the necessary level of ”consensus” to prevent ”another Cancun”. The way things are in the WTO and in the current Doha-round negotiations is essential in the defence and promotion of their own needs and rights.
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/ 12 December 2005
High up on the Bolivian altiplano near Lake Titicaca, an Aymara priest holds a green plastic lighter to a carved wooden cup containing strips of paper. Despite the fierce gusts of the early morning wind, the paper catches and smoke billows forth. The priest, dressed in traditional, brightly coloured robes, holds the smoking vessel before the presidential candidate.
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/ 12 December 2005
Sick of being stuck in gridlocked traffic or jostled in overcrowded buses, Jakartans wonder whether their public transport dream, the city’s first monorail, is ever going to become reality. One-and-a-half years after its ground-breaking, the only sign that the saga-riddled project is under way is a few concrete and steel shoots poking into the polluted main street of South Jakarta’s business district.
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/ 11 December 2005
South Africa’s batsmen showed a marked improvement on Sunday on the
opening day of a three-day tour match but there were growing concerns that all-rounder Jacques Kallis may not be fit for the first Test against Australia starting Friday.
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/ 11 December 2005
The International Cricket Council has warned players from Australia and South Africa to behave when their three-test series starts. ICC chief executive officer Malcolm Speed said the ”war of words” between the two countries had raised concerns ”that the high standards expected of international cricketers are at risk of being eroded”.
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/ 11 December 2005
Explosions at one of Britain’s largest oil depots jolted an area north of London early on Sunday, hurling balls of fire skyward, shattering windows and blanketing nearby houses with smoke. Police said the blasts appeared to be accidental. Thirty-six people were injured, four seriously, authorities said.
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/ 11 December 2005
Fuel tanks were still dry at Cape Town International airport on Sunday, South African Airways said. Tanks ran dry on Saturday, causing airlines and passengers major inconvenience — Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan apparently suffered a delay of six hours on a flight to Johannesburg.
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/ 11 December 2005
Eugene McCarthy, a former United States senator and an indomitable anti-war activist whose firm stance against the Vietnam War forced a re-evaluation of the US role in the conflict, has died at the age of 89, Democratic Party officials said. McCarthy passed away in his sleep at his retirement home in the US capital early on Saturday.