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/ 25 November 2004
Five Arab foreign fighters who had escaped from Fallujah were arrested near the southern port city of Basra, where they were planning to attack coalition bases and police stations, authorities said on Thursday. In Fallujah, the United States military said it had uncovered the largest arms cache yet.
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/ 25 November 2004
The Congress of SA Trade Unions plans to revisit Zimbabwe in January after last month’s ill-fated fact-finding mission, the federation said on Thursday. Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu’s general secretary, said Zimbabwe’s government had misunderstood the purpose of the mission, and exposed its paranoia and fear when it expelled Cosatu’s 13-member team from Harare on October 26.
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/ 25 November 2004
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel told textile workers on Thursday that foreign-exchange matters were critical to understanding the future of the textile industry. He said one of the realities was that the fundamentals of the United States (US) economy were out of kilter. The US was "importing more than it’s exporting" and the inevitable consequence of this was the devaluation of the dollar.
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/ 25 November 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) and the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) both won three of eight contested municipal by-elections held on Wednesday – with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) retaining two seats it previously had held.
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/ 25 November 2004
One woman facing abuse and rape is one too many. Using this benchmark, the road ahead of us is long and it will take many years to eradicate the scourge. But as the 2004 Sixteen Days of Activism, devoted to ending gender violence, begins, we choose to highlight the ‘sheroes’ who have used the political space of the past 10 years to begin to make inroads into the crippling rates of rape and abuse that still bedevil South African men and women.
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/ 25 November 2004
Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik used his influence with Deputy President Jacob Zuma to squash attempts by a United Kingdom professor to start an eco-tourism school in KwaZulu-Natal, the Durban High Court heard on Thursday.
Shaik’s ‘error of principle’
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/ 25 November 2004
A ”summit for a mine-free world” opens this weekend in Nairobi to take stock of progress since the signing five years ago of an international treaty banning the deadly devices, and to chart the road ahead. One-hundred-forty-three countries have ratified the 1997 Ottawa Convention on antipersonnel mines, which bans their use, production, stockpiling and transfer and calls for mined areas to be cleared within 10 years.
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/ 25 November 2004
Indian snake charmers have threatened to let loose thousands of snakes in eastern Bhubaneshwar city, alleging harassment by wildlife officials, it was reported on Thursday. While the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 bans the catching of snakes, the practise thrives.
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/ 25 November 2004
HIV and Aids are eroding the South African electoral base and the increase in the death rate could explain decreasing voter turn-out, said a report on Thursday. The Institute for Democracy in SA (Idasa) chairperson Paul Graham said in Pretoria that while there was a need to avoid the easy headline, this was an emergency.
Increase in number of patients on ARV
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/ 25 November 2004
Zimbabwe on Thursday reversed its decision not to allow 13 foreign journalists into the country in a bid to save England’s stalled cricket tour. The government’s Information Department has now cleared all 55 journalists who applied for accreditation to cover the tour, the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Zimbabwe tour nears collapse