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/ 21 January 2005
Legendary vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, South African Broadcasting Corporation television news reported on Thursday. The group was nominated in the categories of best traditional world-music album and best surround-sound album.
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/ 21 January 2005
The Guggenheim Museum has lost its chairperson and chief benefactor in a row over the direction of the world-famous institution. The stetson-wearing, yacht-owning billionaire Peter B Lewis has resigned after having donated a total of -million to the institution. He cited ”differences in direction” between him and the museum’s controversial director, Thomas Krens.
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/ 21 January 2005
George Bush began his second presidential term on Thursday with a call to American action abroad, committing the United States to the spread of global democracy and ”ending tyranny in our world”. He pledged: ”We will defend ourselves and our friends by force of arms when necessary.”
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/ 21 January 2005
In February 1994, the government decided to give Riemvasmaak back to its original residents. In the 10 years since then, Riemvasmaak residents have set up several ecotourism projects in their mountain desert wilderness that is providing jobs, income and purpose in a community still living with bitter memories of forced removal.
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/ 21 January 2005
Mozambique’s highest constitutional body this week rejected on technical grounds an opposition request to reconsider the results of the December general election, which the ruling Frelimo party won by a large majority. The decision follows mounting evidence of electoral malpractice, though not on a scale that could sway the overall result.
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/ 21 January 2005
The Israeli Cabinet lifted its bar on contacts with the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday as the new Palestinian leadership appealed for cooperation with its attempts to curb attacks from the Gaza Strip. Israel also authorised a major military operation in the Gaza Strip if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fails to win a truce from resistance groups.
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/ 21 January 2005
Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will face a daunting task if — as widely expected — it decides to contest the March parliamentary elections. The MDC is on record that it will not participate unless Zimbabwe complies with the Southern African Development Community guidelines on democratic elections adopted in August last year.
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/ 21 January 2005
Pro-democracy agitation is coming to the boil in the kingdom of Swaziland, with the large-scale theft of detonators from a coalmine and a looming general strike spearheaded by the trade union movement. The police were tight-lipped about the theft of detonators at the Swiss-owned Maloma Colliery in south-west Swaziland last week.
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/ 21 January 2005
United States President George Bush’s second inauguration on Thursday provided the signal for an intense debate in Washington over whether or when to extend the ”global war on terror” to Iran, according to officials and foreign policy analysts in Washington. That debate is being driven by ”neo-conservatives” at the Pentagon.
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/ 21 January 2005
Having fought each other to a standstill at the Wanderers, England and South Africa are at it again. Like two prizefighters, too battered to land the final blow but too proud to let their knees buckle, the rivals have reeled into Centurion, leaning forehead to forehead, their eyes swollen shut.