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/ 10 September 2004
If Parliament were a church, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, the leader of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), might need time in the confessional.
As the Christian Church has a Bible, so Parliament has a code of conduct, in terms of which MPs are required to declare their business interests every year. Meshoe didn’t do so and admitted as much this week.
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/ 10 September 2004
Although China is half a world away from South Africa, what happens in China will probably set the course for South Africa for at least the next two decades as 1,2-billion Chinese consumers enter a material-intensive consumption phase similar to the one western Europe went through in the 1950s and 1960s.
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/ 10 September 2004
Gerhard Wisser, the German-South African who is a key suspect in an international nuclear technology smuggling network, was a supplier to apartheid’s nuclear weapons programme, the Mail & Guardian has been told. Wisser was arrested in Germany on August 25 on charges of ”aiding the attempted development of atomic weapons”, but released on bail.
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/ 10 September 2004
Zimbabwe’s domestic debt which stood at Z$590,5-billion in December last year has ballooned to Z$1,4-trillion in June. Latest figures available from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on the country’s foreign debt are for November when the figure stood at US$4-billion.
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/ 10 September 2004
Indonesian and Australian investigators will on Friday continue sifting through the wreckage caused by a massive bomb which exploded outside the Australian embassy compound in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring 182.
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/ 10 September 2004
Police received a cellphone SMS before the Australian Embassy bombing, warning that foreign missions in Jakarta would be attacked unless the alleged head of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group was freed, Australia’s foreign minister said on Friday.
‘Callous attack’ kills nine in Jakarta
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/ 10 September 2004
Di-di-di-di dah-dah, di-di-di-di daaaah. Di-di-di-di dah dah, di-di-di-di daaaah! It’s the most recognised TV theme song, and now it’ll get stuck in your head all over again. The 70s cop show Hawaii Five-O is to be turned into a movie. Named thus because Hawaii is the 50th American state, the series featured breathtaking scenery matched with sharp dialogue, and was one of the most popular TV shows of all time.
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/ 10 September 2004
The document on his desk, <i>Why Revolutionaries Need Marxism: Philosophy and Class Struggle</i>, provides a dog-eared hint of the past week’s mood. The general secretary of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, Thulas Nxesi, is one of nine trade union leaders who have been commanding their headquarters, in inner-city Johannesburg, on a 24-hour basis since their announcement on Monday that up to 690 000 civil servants will hit the streets next Thursday.
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/ 10 September 2004
About 690 000 civil servants are expected to strike out of a total of 852 937 unionised members. As preparations for protest get underway, there is already a mood of triumph. But the question is whether trade union leaders have the grit to sustain this mass action for more than a day. The <i>M&G</i> speaks to the ordinary man on the street.
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/ 10 September 2004
Former Harare Mayor, Elias Mudzuri, has said residents of the Zimbabwean capital and satellite towns are consuming water contaminated with raw sewage and that water supplies could run dry next month due to fighting over the past year between government and the Movement for Democratic Change.