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/ 21 November 2005
Kenya’s 11,5-million registered voters go to the polls on Monday in the 42-year-old republic’s first referendum. But the economic hub of East Africa is tense ahead of the ballot on a controversial draft Constitution. Police have shot dead at least 10 people during violent protests against the document in the weeks leading up to the plebiscite.
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/ 21 November 2005
With just more than a week to the controversial Senate elections in Zimbabwe, there is little sign of campaigning or of the traditional acrimonious exchange that normally occurs between the ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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/ 21 November 2005
He says a conservative strategy has driven the group’s success, but what does Kagiso Media’s CEO Roger Jardine think about the view that his radio stations enjoy an entrenched monopoly and world-beating margins? And will Kagiso be going after the new commercial licences?
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/ 21 November 2005
Burn the textbooks. Forget that fuddy-duddy stuff about demand and supply. Blow a raspberry at economic theory. That, apparently, is the message being sent out by the foreign exchange markets, where the dollar reached a two-year high against the euro and the yen recently.
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/ 21 November 2005
The Ekurhuleni Metro will become the sixth municipality to receive a credit rating, a tool that will assist it in raising additional finance, through loans or even muni-cipal bonds, under the Municipal Finance Management Act. In October, Cape Town was rated "positive" with A+ long-term and A1 short-term ratings by CA Ratings, risk analysts in the municipal area.
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/ 21 November 2005
So it turns out that the granny kicked the soccer player’s butt all over the football pitch and finally left it to lick its wounds (if a butt can lick its own wounds) at the back of the net. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s victory in the presidential elections in Liberia raises and simultaneously discards all the key issues besetting the African continent.
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/ 21 November 2005
African governments and the African Union have been petitioned by more than 150 international rights groups to act on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. Earlier this year President Robert Mugabe’s government drew flak over its Operation Murambatsvina, which a United Nations special envoy report said destroyed the homes of up to 700 000 people.
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/ 21 November 2005
Almost nobody believes radical Islam was a trigger for the rioting that exploded in France three weeks ago. But experts and authorities fear the social discontent that found an outlet in suburban rampaging could evolve among a small minority of the rioters into a dangerous form of Islamic militancy. Many predict the months to come will become a struggle for the soul of these angry suburbs.
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/ 21 November 2005
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, faced the gravest threat to his authority as leader of the worldwide Anglican communion on Wednesday night, as nearly half the church’s presiding archbishops launched an unprecedented attack on his leadership over the issue of gay clergy.
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/ 21 November 2005
”The Mail & Guardian had barely hit the streets when the CEO of South African National Parks, David Mabunda, fired off an SMS accusing the newspaper of attacking him on a personal level. In response to an article on elephant culling, he said, I was using a public platform to ‘bash and trash’ him,” writes Fiona Macleod.