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A R10-million provincial cash injection for equipment at the East Rand’s ailing Natalspruit hospital could be too little, too late, Democratic Alliance health spokesperson Jack Bloom said on Wednesday. Blaming provincial inaction for the hospital’s woes, he said prevention would have been better than cure.
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/ 3 November 2004
The single life and how to make the most of going it alone — a way of life increasingly chosen by many, sociologists say — is celebrated at a three-day fair in Paris, France, this week. Holidays, hobbies, sports, outings, even how to get the best deals for your finances and phone bills as a ”singleton” are lined up for the show.
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For weeks, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell has generated controversy while deciding how voters in this crucial swing state can go about choosing a president. Now the Republican is being called on to usher the presidential election to a conclusion.
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/ 3 November 2004
Africans should make peace with colonialism and move on, the Angolan ambassador to South Africa, Isaac Dos Anjos, said in Pretoria on Wednesday. Emerging from 40 years of civil war and approaching its second democratic election in 2006, Dos Anjos said Angola is still a country of extremes with little infrastructure.
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/ 3 November 2004
Gunshots rang out at the main prison in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital on Wednesday, one day after a riot over scarce water left at least seven people dead, an aid worker said. ”The situation is permanently tense,” said Antoine Foucher of the French aid group Médécins sans Frontières, which works at the prison.
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/ 3 November 2004
The deportation last week of a Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) delegation from Zimbabwe was unfortunate, but had happened because the visit was politically motivated, the South African Parliament’s foreign affairs portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=124895">Zim envoy speaks on food aid, Bennett</a>
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/ 3 November 2004
Speaker Baleka Mbete has barred parliamentary questions relating to the business relationship between Deputy President Jacob Zuma and his adviser Schabir Shaik, which was to be debated on Wednesday. Mbete gave the official opposition Democratic Alliance notice of this earlier on Wednesday, chief whip Douglas Gibson said.
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/ 3 November 2004
Vienna got a touch of Christmas on Wednesday with the arrival of a giant, 27m-high tree that will adorn the capital’s central Rathausplatz during the holiday season.
Rathausplatz, the square in front of Vienna’s ornate, neo-gothic City Hall, is home to one of the city’s most popular Christmas markets.
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/ 3 November 2004
Visits to health clinics, kindergartens and vocational training centres run by Hamas make it hard to believe the same Palestinian group sends out teenage suicide bombers to dispense death in Israel. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged Palestinian armed groups to stop recruiting children to carry out anti-Israeli attacks.