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/ 22 November 2004
Delegates to South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) federal congress in Durban over the weekend were greeted by a flood of posters on just about every lamp post in the area surrounding the International Convention Centre, advertising the candidacy of an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) candidate and a DA candidate for the local municipal ward.
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/ 22 November 2004
Tributes have poured in for the National Council of Provinces chairperson Joyce Kgoali, who died in Johannesburg on Sunday. The African National Congress Women’s League called their late executive committee and working committee member ”unassuming and forthright” with an ”unshakeable” commitment to the
organisation’s policies.
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/ 22 November 2004
Iraqi election officials announced on Sunday that the first democratic elections in decades would be held in less than 10 weeks, despite the relentless violence of the insurgency. The decision, taken by the independent electoral commission of Iraq, reflects a determination in Washington and London to press ahead with the political process, however fragile, in the hope it will eventually resolve the security crisis.
Red Cross condemns Iraq abuses
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/ 22 November 2004
You can say what you like about a Greek hero — just don’t suggest he was gay. That’s the message from a group of Greek lawyers who are threatening to sue director Oliver Stone over his portrayal of Alexander the Great as a battle-hardened fop frequently enjoying affairs with younger men.
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/ 22 November 2004
He may not be his party’s most famous action hero, but United States President George Bush bolstered his tough-guy credentials on Saturday night when he waded into a melee in Santiago to rescue one of his secret service bodyguards. Bush reached into the crowd and yanked out the bodyguard, then walked away, straightening his cuffs and looking none too pleased.
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/ 22 November 2004
Dancehall reggae musicians are fuelling the spread of HIV/Aids in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom by their homophobic lyrics, a British government minister will say on Monday. In June, the Jamaican gay rights leader Brian Williamson was stabbed to death. Crowds gathered outside his home, singing in the street to celebrate his murder.
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/ 22 November 2004
"When I mention Sophiatown people say one of two things; one is that it is pointless going there because there is very little left to see; the other is that it has already "been done" — in photographs, books and films about the glamorous 1950s, the halcyon days before the bulldozers moved in." Sue Krige goes on a walking tour of Sophiatown and discovers the area’s architecture of memory.
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/ 22 November 2004
More than six million children die each year in the developing world from diseases that could be prevented by simple interventions. While effective mechanisms for getting the result of biomedical research to the patients who could most benefit from it remains near the top of the priority list, little research is invested in the ‘how’.
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/ 22 November 2004
Northampton have sacked their South African director of rugby Alan Solomons after the side’s eighth straight league defeat against Worcester left them just one point off the bottom of the Premiership table. A group of players and some of the coaching staff will now take temporary charge of first-team affairs. ”Alan is a great coach but for whatever reason it has not worked out,” said Saints chairperson Keith Barwell.
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/ 22 November 2004
Ricardo Katza’s lone header was enough to propel SuperSport United into the semifinals of the Coca-Cola Cup in a match against Jomo Cosmos at the Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday. Both sides missed chances, which could easily have turned the game into a high scoring affair.