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/ 16 November 2004
The battle for control of South African mining group Gold Fields turned nasty on Monday when predator Harmony accused its rival of attempting to ”corrupt” one of its employees to gain information. In an astonishing statement, Harmony said it was ”outraged” at the depths to which Gold Fields was willing to stoop in its effort to fend off a takeover.
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/ 16 November 2004
Spain’s most infamous spy returned from the dead on Monday, five years after his sister published a death notice and paid for the monks at a monastery near the central Spanish city of Burgos to pray for his soul. His supposed death was thought by many to have brought to an end a tale of espionage, trickery, double-crossing and high-living spanning more than 20 years.
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/ 16 November 2004
The man widely expected to succeed Yasser Arafat in next year’s Palestinian elections, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday appeared to win a power struggle in the dominant Fatah movement after a bloody gun battle in Gaza City. The Fatah secretary general in Gaza, Ahmed Hillis, led dozens of armed men in storming a mourning tent for Arafat on Sunday.
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/ 16 November 2004
Members of a theatrical production staged the largest mass defection of Cuban performers to date on Monday as 43 cast members of Havana Night Club applied for political asylum at a United States federal court in Las Vegas. ”Art should have no boundaries,” Nicole ”ND” Durr, the company’s founder, told the Associated Press.
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/ 16 November 2004
The Bush administration was stripped of its last dissenting voice of moderation on Monday when the secretary of state, Colin Powell, resigned and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser who is known for her conservative instincts, was lined up to replace him.
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/ 16 November 2004
The Chinese government sees him as a separatist, says the Dalai Lama, during his week-long visit to Johannesburg. "That is anti-people, anti-government, anti-Communist Party. So, therefore, I am a criminal." And then he laughs. It is a laugh filled with irony and lightness. Calling him a "political exile engaging in activities to split China" is not unlike saying the same thing about Nelson Mandela pre-1990. He speaks to the <i>M&G</i> about peace, freedom and the global good.
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/ 16 November 2004
From birth we hear food being prepared, savour its aromas, see it displayed as art-about-to-be-eaten, touch and taste it. In marvelling at how food makes the unknown familiar, we acknowledge its role as ambassador for other ways of being in the world, for perspectives, tastes, values and aesthetics different to our own. Chinese restaurants in South Africa offer a chance to explore the soul of that vast country — and great food.
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/ 16 November 2004
Here’s one of the reasons I like Americans — and you will too, after seeing this site, which is an online gallery of Americans holding up photographs of themselves showing hand-written apologies for US President George Bush having been elected. There are more than 300 pages of photographs sent in by honestly unhappy US citizens, trying to show the rest of the world that not all of the US voters are as stupid as it may seem to us outsiders.
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/ 16 November 2004
South Africa may think it is doing well in the Chinese market, but in reality it is still a relatively unknown economic player in the East. While the Chinese have become more aware of South Africa in the past 10 years, they are still not clear about the country’s potential as a leading economy in Africa. There is a lot more that South African companies can do to raise their profile in the region.
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/ 16 November 2004
It is not written in granite that countries must use their national currency in international trade. We must think "outside the box". South Africa has the option of choosing the euro or the dollar instead of the rand as its currency. The decision to adopt a common currency would mean the country ceases to have an exchange rate.