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/ 29 November 2004
"We need Renamo to see what they will bring," says Asahel Bin Dando Ossene who, along with most other people on Mozambique Island, survives by fishing. "For 20 years we had Frelimo and they brought us nothing." Mozambique Island is closer to Zanzibar than to Maputo and its dhows and mosques emphasise the point. As Mozambique goes to the polls, a remote area in the "forgotten" north of the country raises its voice.
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/ 29 November 2004
The two largest coffee roasters in the United Kingdom, Nestlé and Kraft Foods, are planning to launch their own ethically aware brands next year in the hope that some of the success enjoyed by Fairtrade-certified products will rub off on them. The United States food combine Kraft is preparing to add a brand likely to be called Kenco Sustainable Development to its regular product lines on supermarket shelves.
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/ 29 November 2004
Iraq’s independent election commission may have designated January 30 2005 as polling day, but it will be the country’s interim leaders who will decide whether the first free vote in decades goes ahead as planned. ”What we are saying is that we will be ready to hold nationwide elections on January 30,” said Adil al-Lami, the chief electoral officer on the commission, which is responsible for organising the vote.
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/ 29 November 2004
A brilliant partnership of 94 runs off just 87 balls between Justin Kemp and Gerald Dros ended the KZN Dolphins’ hopes of victory in their Standard Bank Cup match against the Easterns Titans at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Sunday.
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/ 29 November 2004
Three teenage girls, their arms around each other’s waists, stand perspiring in the bright Sudanese sun as a gaggle of boys gather round them. ”I have a beautiful bull!” one boy shouts. ”I know how to dance!” another cries, as the girls listen with their eyes demurely downcast. For the Dinka tribe of southern Sudan, this Sunday evening dance is the equivalent of a school disco, and bringing an impressive bull to the party is a bit like turning up in your dad’s Porsche.
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/ 29 November 2004
The Australian ski paddling World Cup ended in controversy in Perth on Sunday, with the South African squad questioning the rules applied in the competition scoring. South Africans filled three of the top five berths on the second stage, only to see the overall competition title being awarded to Australia.
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/ 29 November 2004
Fred Couples continued his amazing run on Sunday, prevailing in four playoff holes over Tiger Woods to claim the final three skins and 000, and win his record fifth skins game with a total of 000. Couples won all his money on Sunday, starting with a birdie putt worth 000 and eight skins on the first hole.
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/ 29 November 2004
Neil Mellor drove home a 30-metre shot for the winner deep into injury time as Arsenal tumbled 2-1 at Liverpool on Sunday to fall five points behind Chelsea in the Premier League title race. The ball came free to Mellor who beat Patrick Vieira to it and aimed a low shot that flew past Jens Lehmann inside the far post.
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One year after music stars took to the stage in Cape Town to raise HIV/Aids awareness, the literary world’s glitterati is making its mark, coming together to help fight the pandemic. Salman Rushdie, John Updike and Gunter Grass are among the 21 authors featured in Telling Tales, an anthology of short stories compiled by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.
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/ 29 November 2004
We’re talking about the failure of power here. But I guess I would be the last one to know about it. Like the rest of us. Last Monday a whole electricity substation in Hurst Hill went up in flames, leaving large parts of Jo’burg in total darkness. Everything became manual again, like the old days. Like you were still living in Sophiatown. Everything had to be done with paraffin stoves and candlelight.