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/ 2 September 2005
”The first part of the Springboks’ season has ended in much the same way as it started — with a bit of sulking, slandering and speculating,” writes Rob Davies. He also looks ahead to Saturday’s Tri-Nations match, saying ”it will be a great surprise if the Wallaby pack manage to subdue their opponents in Wellington”.
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/ 2 September 2005
Côte d’Ivoire’s President Laurent Gbagbo has issued a new version of laws on electoral and nationality matters after causing a storm of protest in the divided country, his office announced on Friday. The laws relate to the nationality code, naturalisation of citizens and the independent electoral commission.
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/ 2 September 2005
A Cape High Court matter about Independent Democrats deputy leader Themba Sono’s cessation of party membership because of failure to pay a R10 membership fee was on Friday postponed to next Wednesday. Friday’s court proceedings against Sono follow a gruelling legal battle with ID dissident Lennit Max.
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/ 2 September 2005
At least four municipal managers received remuneration packages exceeding R1-million last year — closely matching or exceeding that of President Thabo Mbeki, according to Treasury statistics released on Friday. The municipal manager of eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal received a package of R1,091-million in the 2004/05 financial year.
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/ 2 September 2005
A wave of often serious crime by former fighters in Liberia has alarmed police and welfare officials, who say the ex-combatants are going back to armed tactics for lack of the post-war psychological help and education they need. Many youthful Liberians have grown up with nothing but violence and often drugs during conflict.
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/ 2 September 2005
The first compulsory sale of a white-owned farm concluded in Namibia this week, bringing fresh impetus to the government’s land-reform programme and raising concerns among white farmers of Zimbabwean-style land seizures. ”we have no choice and we have to make the best of it,” said the farm owner.
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/ 2 September 2005
Coal-mining industry workers and the Chamber of Mines have signed an agreement to suspend strikes for two years, the union Solidarity said on Friday. ”The hatchet has been buried for the next two years with the signing of a new wage agreement,” Reint Dykema said in a statement.
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/ 2 September 2005
Explosions rang out and fires blazed early on Friday in south-western New Orleans, as authorities battled to restore order after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast, United States television reported. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at federal officials, saying ”they don’t have a clue what’s going on down here”.
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/ 2 September 2005
From Cape Town, to Jozi, to Banjul and now Geneva, there is no stopping Rastafari lawyer Gareth Prince in his cross-continental fight to be admitted as a practising attorney and for Rastafarians to be allowed to use cannabis. His determination follows in the face of a ruling against him and in favour of the South African government.
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/ 2 September 2005
Research has shown that only 1% of almost one million evictions from farms in the past 10 years have involved a legal process. The research also indicates that evictions peaked after the 1997 introduction of the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (Esta), designed to secure the tenure rights of farm dwellers.