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/ 22 September 2004
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has ordered a forensic audit into an auditor-general finding that unknown net debit entries totalling R10-million in the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) 2003/04 annual report were incorrectly accounted for as bank charges.
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/ 22 September 2004
Five convicts who escaped from Westville prison on Monday and were recaptured on Wednesday will face new charges and be moved to a place ”with higher security”. KwaZulu-Natal safety and security minister Bheki Cele said: ”it would be amazing if there was no collaboration” with prison officials in the escape.
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/ 22 September 2004
The United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, on Tuesday delivered a stern rebuke to nations that ”shamelessly disregard” international law, explicitly chastising the United States, Sudan, Russia, Uganda, Israel and the Palestinians. He also mentioned the human rights abuses in Iraq committed in Abu Ghraib prison by American soldiers.
Annan on Darfur: World must act now
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/ 22 September 2004
Thousands of people gathered in the small kingdom of Swaziland on Tuesday for the first public talks on the country’s long-awaited new Constitution, criticised by pro-democracy groups for not curbing the king’s powers. The tiny country wedged between South Africa and Mozambique was expected to adopt the Constitution before the end of the month.
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/ 22 September 2004
The interim President of Haiti, Boniface Alexandre, on Tuesday appealed to world leaders for aid as the death toll from the country’s second flooding disaster in four months reached more than 700. Alexandre made his plea at the United Nations in New York after Tropical Storm Jeanne inundated many cities at the weekend and mudslides buried houses.
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/ 22 September 2004
Iraq’s justice minister on Tuesday night pledged to release one high-profile Iraqi woman prisoner and to consider the release of a second in a last-minute concession that may save the life of the British kidnap victim Kenneth Bigley. The sudden change in policy came as an Islamic militant group said it had killed a second American hostage held with Bigley.
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/ 22 September 2004
The new breed of citizen journalist, the person who blogs, takes photos on their mobile phone and uploads them to a mobLog (mobile weblog), records video, sends it to a video blog and participates in what is commonly becoming known as the "We Media", relies heavily on Open Source Software, often running on Linux servers.
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/ 22 September 2004
Time for a rant. The whoring of editorial space that masquerades as motoring journalism is the subject. Although the sentiment will sound naïve in the extreme, maybe what we have here is an opportunity to lend some real world meaning to the collective hand-wringing at media’s recent humiliations.
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/ 22 September 2004
History has shown that Johncom management isn’t scared to fire its editors, so Mondli Makhanya’s position at the helm of the <i>Sunday Times</i> will never be completely safe. At this giant, it’s not easy to juggle the demands of readers, advertisers and good journalism to the satisfaction of everyone concerned. Kevin Bloom reports.
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/ 22 September 2004
After not receiving a reply from the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists on his July article, David Bullard addresses this one to the SA Guild of Motoring Industry Publicity Generators.