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/ 24 September 2004
US officials last night defended the deportation of Yusuf Islam, previously known as Cat Stevens, as it emerged that the former pop star met White House officials earlier this year. British foreign Jack Straw secretary intervened in the row by telling the US that the decision to ban Islam ”should not have been taken”.
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/ 24 September 2004
Britain on Friday renewed corruption charges against Kenya, saying the drive to fight endemic graft in the east African country was ”evidently flawed” and devoid of ”political will”. But Kenya has rejected these claims, saying President Mwai Kibaki was fully committed to the fight against corruption.
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/ 24 September 2004
Workers at a white-owned farm in Namibia have decided to take over the property in three weeks’ time to protest the government’s failure to implement a decision to expropriate land owners. A Namibian newspaper has said the workers were also planning to seize several other farms from owners they say are exploiting them.
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/ 24 September 2004
The Mapungubwe National Park, a world heritage site, was launched by the Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk in Limpopo on Friday. ”Mapungubwe completes our South African heritage triangle… from Robben Island in the south west, to the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park on the east coast…” Van Schalkwyk said.
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/ 24 September 2004
South Africa is ready to become a member of the United Nations Security Council, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Speaking at national Heritage Day celebrations, Mbeki said that although discussions are still going on about the Security Council, the government is preparing to become a permanent member.
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/ 24 September 2004
The estranged Eastern Cape province has been rocked by another shock move by that province’s government, apparently in an effort to weed out corruption. Late on Thursday night, the entire Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) board and the corporation’s chief executive officer was suspended.
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/ 24 September 2004
In a study of five transitional democracies, South Africa has fared worst in providing citizens with access to information. And the Presidency was among a handful of institutions that failed to provide any information in response to requests filed under the country’s much-vaunted Promotion of Access to Information Act.
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/ 24 September 2004
A political tussle has broken out within the legal fraternity over the medicine pricing wars. The ongoing legal battle between Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and pharmacists is exposing deep racial and political divisions in the Cape Town legal community.
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/ 24 September 2004
The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it is disturbed by the news that Barclays Bank may acquire a major shareholding in Absa. The two banks confirmed on Thursday that they were involved in talks which could see the sale of a 21% stake in Absa to Barclays. Sanlam has a 21% stake — the largest single shareholder.
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/ 24 September 2004
Zimbabwe’s banking crisis continued to mount with the forced closure of another large commercial bank by the Central Bank, the fourth such bank to be shut down this year due to liquidity woes. At the time of its closure Trust Bank owed about Z,4-trillion, an amount equal to the country’s domestic debt.
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