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A total of 33 firms, or about a fifth of Zimbabwe’s export companies, have closed shop during the first six months of the year due to the economic crisis and land seizures, according to a government agency. Of the 33, 12 agricultural firms stopped operating after their farms were acquired by the government under the land reform programme.
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/ 15 November 2005
Under the incredulous eyes of the participants at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia, journalists and human rights defenders were manhandled, insulted, and then beaten, said the Association for Progressive Communications on Tuesday.
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/ 15 November 2005
The owner of the first commercial farm expropriated in Namibia on Tuesday auctioned off farm equipment after moving out of the property, more than a year after being ordered to sell her land. ”I feel rather sad today, standing here in our empty farmhouse,” said Hilde Wiese (70).
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/ 15 November 2005
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/ 15 November 2005
Suspended National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha intends asking the Pretoria High Court next week for an order to reinstate him. Masetlha would bring an urgent application seeking the setting aside of what he considers an unlawful suspension, his attorney Imraan Haffegee said on Tuesday.
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/ 15 November 2005
Pretoria’s inner city is to get a R18-billion makeover in the next 15 years. It will include a Freedom Park and a cross-town ”heritage trail” from the park, through Church Square, to the Union Buildings. The idea, planners say, is to transform the city into a world-class capital with South African architecture and an African feel.
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/ 15 November 2005
The power of microcredit to pull people out of destitution has been celebrated around the world during 2005, designated the ”International Year of Microcredit” by the United Nations. In Kenya, however, the concept of microcredit risks losing its bloom.
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/ 15 November 2005
Thirty thousand quake-hit families in Pakistan’s wintry mountains are being taught to build shelters from the rubble of their homes under a new United Nations programme launched on Monday. Survivors will receive tool kits, iron sheeting for roofs and technical details on how to build makeshift homes to protect them from the coming winter, the United Nations Development Programme said.
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/ 15 November 2005
FBI agents arrested a woman on Tuesday who was suspected of robbing four banks in suburban Virginia while appearing to be talking on a cellphone. Candice Martinez (19) was arrested just before 4am at a home in nearby Centreville, Virginia after an FBI agent spotted a car nearby with licence plates they had been searching for.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has reiterated his denial of rape allegations or any conduct that might compromise an investigation. This follows a weekend report in the Sunday Times that Zuma allegedly raped a family friend at his Forest Town, Johannesburg, home on November 2.