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/ 8 September 2005
When Lemmer checks his e-mail he expects the usual advertisements for (entirely redundant) penis enlargements — ahem — and the odd somewhat creepy briefie from Sannah Hanna-Hanna, his recently divorced childhood sweetheart, asking him for directions to Dorsbult. So, when he got spam of a different nature this week it was such a delightful change that he actually read it.
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/ 8 September 2005
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, the storm has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter, and hundreds reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina may not entirely be the result of an act of nature, but Bush administration’s policies and actions.
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/ 7 September 2005
United States Senator Hillary Clinton fuelled the political debate over Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, insisting on an independent inquiry into the federal response and sharply rejecting President George Bush’s bid to lead the probe himself. ”I don’t think the government should be investigating itself,” Clinton said.
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/ 7 September 2005
Egyptians voted on Wednesday in the country’s first contested presidential election, with veteran leader Hosni Mubarak all but certain to head off all challengers amid reports of widespread irregularities. The electoral commission described turnout as ”remarkable”, but confusion marked Egypt’s democratic experiment.
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/ 7 September 2005
British-based aid agency Oxfam criticised rich countries on Thursday for failing to heed warnings of a Niger-like food crisis that could affect 10-million people in Southern Africa. ”Niger was forecast six months in advance, yet rich countries did almost nothing until the eleventh hour,” said Oxfam’s regional coordinator for Southern Africa.
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/ 7 September 2005
Police corruption can be nipped in the bud if the public stop offering officers bribes, the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) said on Wednesday, responding to a television exposé of police taking bribes to release illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the television footage is, on its own, ”insufficient” to secure the officers’ prosecution, Gauteng police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo said.
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/ 7 September 2005
Mittal Steel has welcomed an interdict issued by the Labour Court in Johannesburg preventing members of trade union Solidarity from striking. The dispute between Mittal Steel South Africa and Solidarity is over the union’s demand for more money for the working hours of 134 of its day-shift members.
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/ 7 September 2005
No one is quite sure when it happened. One day there was no Google. The next day there was, and everyone was using it. Somewhere between September 1998 and December of the same year, it crept into our consciousness and went from being a garage-based start-up to one of PC Magazine‘s top 100 websites of the year.