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/ 23 September 2005
President George W Bush’s multibillion-dollar reconstruction plans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are being used as ”a vast laboratory” for conservative social polices, administration critics claim. The White House strategy involves the suspension of a series of regulations guaranteeing the going local wage and affirmative action for minorities.
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/ 23 September 2005
Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on The New York Times. He has been described as “a guard dog of United States foreign policy”. Whatever America’s warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that “the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist”. He promotes bombing countries and says World War III has begun.
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/ 23 September 2005
Lemmer has always enjoyed the honesty of revolutionary rhetoric, since it is one of the only forms of human speech that instantly and completely betray the speaker’s limitations and paranoias. And this week the rhetoric coming out of the African National Congress Youth League on its website was as purple as a gesuipte sheep-rustler’s schnozz.
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/ 22 September 2005
Nigerian militia fighters have seized and shut down a Chevron oil flow station, a militia leader said. The militia has threatened to shut down oil operations in the southern Niger delta — where most of Opec member Nigeria’s crude is produced — unless its leader, Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, is released from detention.
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/ 22 September 2005
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has disputed an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report blaming high unemployment in South Africa on inflexible labour laws. ”Once again the IMF has failed to provide significant evidence that our labour laws are inflexible and a hindrance to employment growth,” Cosatu spokesperson Paul Notyhawa said on Thursday.
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/ 22 September 2005
A white commercial farmer was chased off his land in Zimbabwe and the manager of a coffee plantation was beaten up by gun-toting men, the owners of the properties said on Thursday. Allan Warner, a South African farm manager, received 12 stitches on his head after he was beaten up by a group of about 15 armed men at a coffee farm near the town of Chipinge, in southeastern Zimbabwe.
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/ 22 September 2005
A self-professed voodoo priestess was jailed on Thursday awaiting sentencing for fatally beating a woman during a ritual to exorcise evil spirits from her and burying her body in a shallow grave, authorities said. Judge Claudette Singh said she would decide on Wednesday how long Patricia Alves (44) should be jailed for manslaughter.
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/ 22 September 2005
The ACDP has withdrawn from all planned Heritage Day activities at the Northern Cape legislature.