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The Democratic Alliance has released its ”alternative Budget”, two days ahead of Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s official Budget on Wednesday. Briefing the media at Parliament on Monday, DA finance spokesperson Ian Davidson said the DA’s alternative Budget for 2005/06 ”is all about jobs”.
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/ 21 February 2005
The process of democratic governance is rooting itself all across the African continent. This is the view of 13 African leaders as contained in a report released on Monday at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In the report, each of the leaders assesses contemporary trends and developments in their own countries.
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/ 21 February 2005
The African National Congress has launched a series of well-planned attacks on the independence of the South African judiciary, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon warned on Monday. He said the ruling party is ”using charges of real or imagined racism to intimidate the judiciary and create a more executive-minded bench”.
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/ 21 February 2005
African Union-brokered talks to end violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region will resume at the end of February, a leading official from Sudan’s ruling party said on Monday. However, AU spokesperson Jean Baptiste Natama said from Khartoum that he has not received any indication of a scheduled resumption of talks.
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/ 21 February 2005
Nelson Chisale closed his eyes and prayed before being thrown to lions, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Monday. The defence opened its case on Monday with the evidence of one of his alleged killers, Simon Mathebula (43). Simon said he watched his employer, Mark Scott-Crossley, walk up to Chisale and kick him.
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/ 21 February 2005
The marshes of Mesopotamia, thought by some biblical scholars to be the site of the Garden of Eden, could be restored, scientists will reveal this week. An area of Iraq’s wetland, originally twice the size of the Florida Everglades but extensively drained by Saddam Hussein’s regime, could be on the road to recovery.
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/ 21 February 2005
Almost 150 people are believed to have died under hundreds of tonnes of garbage and earth when heavy seasonal rain unleashed a massive landslide in Indonesia on Monday, police said. The landslide struck in the early hours when people were asleep and flattened up to 70 homes built in the shadow of a dumpsite.
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/ 21 February 2005
Constitutional Court judges grilled the state on Monday for raising issues in an application for leave to appeal against certain legal issues arising from the acquittal of apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, that were not detailed in the initial indictment against him.
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/ 21 February 2005
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is offering to hold talks with civic groups and founding president Kenneth Kaunda on their demands for a new Constitution to be adopted before next year’s elections, state radio reported on Monday. Mwanawasa made the offer at a rally held on Sunday outside Lusaka, the report said.
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/ 21 February 2005
Kenyan authorities have arrested three men with alleged links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in the East African nation, a police official said on Monday. The trio — a Sudanese national and two Kenyans — were detained on Saturday in northeast Kenya near the border with lawless Somalia.