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/ 14 October 2005
”Disasters are always most poignant, most chilling, when you know the terrain and the people. So I had stood on the sea wall in Galle, watching kids fly kites, a few months before the tsunami engulfed the south of Sri Lanka. So I remember sitting in a waterfront square in New Orleans early — too early,” writes Peter Preston.
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/ 14 October 2005
Serendipity, coincidence, synchronism, eureka moments — these have garnished my life-track beyond all expectation. The most striking serendipitous occurrence of my student years marked my first visit to the cave I was subsequently to name Mwulu’s Cave.
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/ 14 October 2005
The scale of the disaster has traumatised the entire country — or perhaps not quite. Here in Lahore, a group of people collecting funds for earthquake relief were apprehended and charged. They were amassing money for themselves. Even in the midst of devastation, life goes on.
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/ 14 October 2005
Lemmer learned this week that some of Dorsbult’s less transformed senior citizens have been taking great solace in the online writing of Fikile Beebopaloola, the President and literary über-kahuna of the African National Congress Youth League. It’s rare, one told Oom Krisjan, to come across real paranoia in an dominant political party: ah, she sighed, just like the good old 1980s.
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/ 14 October 2005
Culling, it seemed, was the only viable option. The pesky brutes didn’t react well to sterilisation, and relocating them was out of the question. No, wholesale slaughter it would have to be. They simply used up too much land — one really couldn’t expect to roam expansive territories nowadays — and besides they were hugely destructive to the environment.
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/ 13 October 2005
Owners of bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) in Soweto are struggling to make a living because most tourists prefer to stay in their Sandton hotels. Mail & Guardian Online journalist Elvira van Noort spends a night at a Soweto B&B and investigates why tourists still steer clear of these hospitable establishments.
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/ 13 October 2005
Police have not echoed the willingness shown by the Scorpions to work together and create mechanisms to do so, it emerged on the final day of public hearings at the Khampepe Commission in Pretoria. ”We believe no number of committees can solve the problems until the institutional and constitutional problems have been solved,” said advocate Philip Jacobs for the South African Police Service.
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/ 13 October 2005
The South African Communist Party does not believe that South Africa has two economies, Blade Ndzimande said at the Black Management Forum national conference in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”It is a single economy which, like all capitalist economies, has dualistic poles, the rich and the poor,” he said.
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/ 13 October 2005
Murder convict William Nkuna on Thursday said politicians had influenced the judgement which found him guilty of missing Constable Frances Rasuge’s murder. Nkuna was pronounced guilty by Judge Ronald Hendricks in the GaRankuwa Circuit Court.