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/ 2 December 2005
The dues of African Union member states, notoriously in arrears, should be collected through a ”community levy”, the Pan African Parliament (PAP) proposed on Friday. The resolution is an attempt by the PAP to ”support the AU in the provision of necessary resources for the realisation of its dreams and vision”.
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/ 2 December 2005
Environmental activists were to kick off a series of protests and vigils in India on Friday to mark the 21st anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, which claimed thousands of lives. In New Delhi, the global environmental group Greenpeace was to act out a recreation of the disaster which struck the central Indian town of Bhopal just before midnight on December 2, 1984.
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/ 2 December 2005
The creation of a continental university as a centre of innovation and academic excellence was recommended by the Pan African Parliament on Friday, the final day of its fourth ordinary session in Midrand. ”We need to have Africans educated and trained in science and technology and information technology,” MP Miria Matembe said.
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/ 2 December 2005
The Pan Africanist Congress on Friday presented documents to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development requesting the release of members of its former military wing, the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army. These are soldiers who were arrested for their role in the anti-apartheid struggle, the PAC said.
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/ 2 December 2005
Every surfer has a romantic longing that cannot be quelled, charter boat companies identified it and catered for it. It’s a win-win situation for everyone. Take away the hardships of travel and the time-wasting missions of local transport and stand-by plane tickets. Take away the grovel and the endeavour, the luck and uncertainties of finding good waves. Ker-ching!
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/ 2 December 2005
The San tribes called it Hoerikwaggo, the mountain of the sea, and as our boat chugged towards Cape Town’s Waterfront we could see why. Table Mountain’s massive cliff face appears to rise vertically from the sea, 3 000ft into blue skies. This is what it must have looked like when the 16th-century explorers sailed into the bay — sea and mountain blending into a huge blue-grey expanse.
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/ 2 December 2005
Tiny Laos is often seen as sparking little interest in a dynamic Asian region, but 30 years after the communists took power, it is at the heart of a struggle for influence among its neighbours. Chinese investments, the daily traffic of people along the border with southwestern China’s Yunnan province and the rising number of Chinese vehicles in Laos show Beijing has a keen eye on the Laotian market.
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/ 2 December 2005
A young Australian heroin smuggler’s legal and diplomatic battle to avoid execution ended swiftly on Friday when he was hanged in a Singapore prison after all appeals were exhausted. Singaporean activists are campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty in the South-East Asian financial and technological centre.
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/ 2 December 2005
Arthur Goldstuck’s new book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Going Wireless, delves into wireless communication in South Africa.
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/ 2 December 2005
The proposed R38-billion takeover of Swedish life insurer Skandia by South African financial and insurance giant Old Mutual plc has been approved by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Old Mutual said in a statement on Friday. The group hopes to have all of the necessary regulatory approvals in place by mid-January.