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/ 16 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party and its leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, enter the coming election fighting to keep control of KwaZulu-Natal, and their future as a national political force.
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/ 16 January 2004
The African National Congress’s choice of KwaZulu-Natal to sell its message of peace, hope for the future and a society that truly cares could not have been delivered to a more understanding audience.
A race too close to call
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/ 16 January 2004
When ruling party militants chased Batty’s owners from their farm in Zimbabwe, they gouged out the puppy’s eyes. Bloodied and wounded, he wandered the bush for days before he was rescued by animal rights activists and airlifted to safety in neighbouring South Africa.
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/ 16 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa opened slightly firmer on Friday amid a softer rand. Global markets are also expected to open firmer after a mixed day on
Wall Street on Thursday.
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/ 16 January 2004
Faced with racial enmity among its supporters in the Western Cape, the African National Congress goes into the election trying to bridge the divide between the coloured and African communities in the province. The ANC kicks off its 2004 election campaign in the Western Cape on Sunday.
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/ 16 January 2004
Spotters for abalone poachers in the small tourist town of Hermanus on South Africa’s southernmost coast spot the police from afar and often mock them as they try to clamp down on the burgeoning illegal trade. ”Afternoon inspector — there are perlemoen (abalone) poachers down there inspector, you must go look,” one of the men says mockingly.
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/ 16 January 2004
Polio, which used to kill and disable many thousands of children every year, could be eradicated by the end of 2004 in one final last ambitious push to immunise 250-million children several times each.
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/ 16 January 2004
When the elephants fight, tusk to tusk, it is the grass — the ordinary people — that gets trampled. But where did the elephants get their tusks? In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the elephants now sup at the same table. Since July a government of national unity, agreed during talks at Sun City, reigns over an uneasy, fractional peace.
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/ 16 January 2004
Leading psychologists are enraged at the appointment of Saths Cooper, formerly the controversial vice-chancellor of the University of Durban-Westville (UDW), to the newly formed board of the psychologists’ council. This took place despite Cooper’s failure to be democratically elected, they say.
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/ 16 January 2004
The South African tendency to overspend is keeping many children out of school. And the same weakness deprives many who make it into the classroom of essentials such as uniforms and books. Desperate to provide for their children, parents are flocking to loansharks — and digging themselves more deeply into debt.