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The Rafah border, Gaza’s only link to the outside world that bypasses Israel, was declared open by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday after being shut for nearly three months. ”It is a dream come true for us to be here to celebrate the reopening of the Rafah terminal,” Abbas told Palestinian and foreign dignitaries.
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/ 25 November 2005
”If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do,” said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
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/ 25 November 2005
Four men who shot a police officer dead and injured two others in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on Friday struck again later in Fourways, police said. A spokesperson said the gunmen picked up the trail of a man who had collected money at an American Express outlet in Rosebank and followed him all the way to Fourways.
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Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Friday lit a flame at the Katlehong Stadium to launch a campaign of 16 days of activism against the abuse of women and children. ”This is the flame of no violence … that must burn throughout the year in our hearts and in our lives,” Mlambo-Ngcuka said.
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/ 25 November 2005
The Democratic Alliance would continue to stand as an independent party even if the ruling African National Congress split, says leader Tony Leon. In his regular internet column on Friday, he said the DA would fight to ensure that any new government reversed the current government’s ”denialist approach to HIV/Aids”, among other things.
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In his regular internet column on Friday, ANC Today, President Thabo Mbeki said his statements dealing with the Jacob Zuma affair can ”by no stretch of imagination” be interpreted as expressing ”a hostile or malicious attitude” to the former deputy president.
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/ 25 November 2005
Environmental experts on Friday warned the slick of cancer-causing benzene moving along China’s Songhua river could pose a long-term risk to human health, contaminate the food chain and damage the region’s fragile ecosystem. As the 80km-long highly toxic column moved into Harbin, capital of the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, analysts said dangers would remain for years.
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/ 25 November 2005
Too red to see green Thank you for a sober reaction to political statements by South Africa’s rulers undermining the use of environmental impact assessments (”Mbeki joins assault on green laws”, August 4). They should be reminded that the Constitution provides for ”an environment that is not harmful to … health and wellbeing”. To enforce […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Do as He would do After listening to the radio interview with Mail & Guardian editor Ferial Haffajee, I understand completely where she is coming from. However, to avert the kind of outrage that the printing of the cartoon has sparked, it would have been better to omit it. To do so would not have […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Enough of the crocodile tears I read with dismay Nomboniso Gasa’s open letter to Jacob Zuma (March 17), and cringed at her crocodile tears. I am not politically correct and shall nail my colours to the mast: I align myself with Zuma’s fight to be accorded respect and dignity, not least by the partisan character […]