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/ 26 January 2005
For the past while the Financial Mail has been suffering declining circulations and internal editorial discord. Will Barney Mthombothi find the answer in fuller coverage of the country’s transformation? Kevin Bloom speaks to the new editor, Barney Mthombothi who takes the helm this month.
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/ 26 January 2005
The Luzira cocoa processing plant is unusual. In the only operation of its kind in the vast region, the workers at this site are harnessing the power of the sun to dry cocoa for export. Cocoa is a major earner of foreign exchange in Uganda, fetching  500 to  700 (R9 000 to R10 200) a tonne — three times what Uganda gets for coffee, its main export crop.
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/ 26 January 2005
January 8 2005, I thought to remind myself, was the day I fully entered the realm of the petit-blackeois (the black bourgeois) class. I … I had a … ehhhh, uhmmm, a facial, back-scrub and full body massage at a beauty salon. There, I have said it. Condemn me if you will.
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/ 25 January 2005
Anti-retrovirals could cost South Africans as little as about R100 a month and local manufacturing of generics could start as early as next month, it was announced on Tuesday. South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare group is the first drug manufacturer in the world to receive approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to produce generic anti-retrovirals.
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/ 25 January 2005
Members of a heavily armed Somali gang occupying a desecrated colonial-era Italian cemetery in Mogadishu said on Tuesday they will build a mosque at the site. Gunmen exhumed the remains of hundreds of Italian nationals nearly 50 years ago and discarded them into trash-dumping zones along the shores of the Indian Ocean.
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/ 25 January 2005
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday that Burundi’s neighbours are opposed to any changes in the country’s Constitution that is to be put to a referendum next month. Zuma said the countries of the region do not support President Domitien Ndayizeye’s controversial proposal to modify the Constitution.
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/ 25 January 2005
Kaizer Chiefs’ player of the year and former Bafana Bafana midfielder John ”Shoes” Moshoeu was on Tuesday suspended by the club with immediate effect. Moshoeu was also instructed by coach Ted Dumitru not to come to training, pending his appearance before the club’s disciplinary committee. A hearing date is still to be confirmed.
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/ 25 January 2005
Pretoria advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday to an array of criminal charges involving alleged sexual violations of women and girls. The pair, who was arrested more than two years ago, gave detailed denials of all the allegations against them.
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/ 25 January 2005
Yesterday, South African filmmaker Darrell Roodt’s touching film about a young woman, played by Leleti Khumalo, coming to terms with Aids, has been nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, it was announced on Tuesday. The Howard Hughes epic The Aviator leads the contenders with 11 nominations.