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/ 7 February 2005
As 2005 moves well into its first quarter, the residential property market in Cape Town remains buoyant with a particularly strong demand from local buyers, according to Mick Joyce, managing director of Pam Golding Properties’ Western Cape metro region.
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/ 7 February 2005
Togo’s army sealed its borders on Sunday and put Faure Gnassingbe in power following the death of his father, President Gnassingbe Eyadema. The African Union condemned the move as ”a military coup d’état”. Eyadema (69) Africa’s longest-serving ruler after 38 years in power, died on Saturday, apparently of a heart attack.
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/ 7 February 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange started the week on a firm note following a strong close on Wall Street and the softer rand. Resources and platinum counters were among the early features. The bourse was expected to look to the rand, which early on Monday morning weakened to 6,19 — its worst level this year.
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/ 7 February 2005
Al Frisby has spent the better part of his life in rooms filled with rebellious teenagers, but the last years have been particularly trying for the high school biology teacher. He has met parents who want him to teach that God created Eve out of Adam’s rib, and then then adjusted the chromosomes to make her a woman.
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/ 7 February 2005
The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said on Sunday night that Israel had ”hard decisions” to make to create the correct environment for peace and a Palestinian state, as she began a two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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/ 7 February 2005
Jules Benji, a massed choir singing No Woman No Cry over his shoulder from a huge stage in Meskel Square, Addis Ababa, declared: ”We’re doing His Majesty’s work here. This is a historic day for Ethiopia.” His clothes were traditional Ethiopian, shining white, with a ceremonial dagger at his side. But his accent was pure Moss Side, Manchester.
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/ 7 February 2005
The leaders of the world’s richest nations are on course to sign a deal in the summer on debt relief, aid and trade to help the world’s poorest nations, the British government said on Sunday. Finance ministers from the G7 developed countries agreed an action plan at the weekend.
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/ 7 February 2005
Members of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party were attacked by a group of opposition supporters in their offices in Johannesburg on Sunday, the party’s district chairperson said. ”They started beating us up. They told us, ‘Why do you support the president [Robert Mugabe]?”’ said the chairperson.
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/ 7 February 2005
A seven-year-old autistic boy who went missing on Sunday in Berario, north-west Johannesburg, had still not been found on Monday morning, his father said. The editor of the Sowetan Sunday World, Thabo Leshilo, father of Ofentse Leshilo, said this is not the first time his son, who is extremely hyperactive, has gone missing.
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/ 7 February 2005
If you’re after spa treatments, luxury safari lodges and chocolates on your pillow, then Mali is not for you. Even wildlife is not really on the agenda, bar a few hippos and crocodiles lurking in the boundless Niger river. But if you fancy a mind-boggling ethnic mosaic, seeing mud architecture that could have been designed by Gaudà and immersing yourself in the passions of an ancient cosmology — then this is your kind of place.