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/ 24 September 2005
Hurricane Rita hurled its full fury at Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, as the storm’s potent eyewall ripped ashore, lashing coastlines with a terrifying barrage of near 200kph winds and walls of driving rain. Rita smashed into a coastline bristling with vital oil and chemical installations after its outer bands dumped fresh floods on New Orleans.
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/ 24 September 2005
South Africa’s civil society groups are demanding a bigger role in the national self-assessment to be conducted under the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). APRM is the brainchild of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an initiative that seeks to attract more foreign investment to the continent by improving the management of African states.
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/ 24 September 2005
Planning inspectors are being asked to resolve a dispute over the site of a statue honouring South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela in London’s Trafalgar Square. The Greater London Authority, on behalf of the Nelson Mandela Statue Fund, wanted the 2,8m bronze statue to stand on the north terrace of the British capital’s most popular piazza.
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/ 24 September 2005
The Oscar-winning maker of films such as Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, is to return to directing after an eight-year break in a big-screen adaptation of a Romanian short story. Coppola (66) is set to begin production in Bucharest on October 3 on the low-budget Youth Without Youth, based on the novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.
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/ 24 September 2005
The greens are oily brown, the fairways have been swept for mines and the owner is a retired warlord. A rusting Russian tank looks down on the first tee. Only the rough lives up to its name. Welcome to Kabul Golf Club, wryly described on its scorecard as ”the best and only golf course in Afghanistan”.
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/ 24 September 2005
One critic has likened it to a giant petrol station. The heritage group Italia Nostra calls it an ”eco-monster that should be torn down forthwith”. After a controversy that has endured for more than seven years, the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, unveiled a concrete, glass and travertine structure by the Tiber on Friday, the work of United States architect Richard Meier.
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/ 24 September 2005
A United States foreign correspondent on Friday launched a £2,3-million claim for unfair dismissal at a London tribunal, claiming that he had been sacked for refusing to cover the war in Iraq. Richard Gizbert, who had worked for US broadcaster ABC News for 11 years, believes his case has wide-ranging implications for other journalists.
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/ 23 September 2005
”Police had warned us not to go into Botleng and about 200m away we could see fires smouldering in the rock-strewn main road. In what we thought was a safe spot, we stopped opposite the school to check with a contact for directions. The next moment, three youths were at the sidewindow demanding to know what we wanted,” writes Yolandi Groenewald and Monako Dibetle.
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/ 23 September 2005
Khayelitsha has again logged the most murders in the county, but Western Cape safety and security authorities say the rate is the lowest in 10 years. ”The situation has changed,” maintained Western Cape community safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane on Thursday.
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/ 23 September 2005
South Africa’s first expropriation of land for restitution was announced recently. The Land Claims Commission announced on Thursday that it would be serving an expropriation notice on the owner of the Leeuwspruit farm, near Lichtenberg in North West.