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/ 13 January 2004
The estate of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien has won the rights to the use of the domain name www.jrrtolkien.com in a United Nations ruling. The World Intellectual Property Organisation ordered the name handed over to the company that holds the rights to the British author’s works.
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/ 13 January 2004
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) on Tuesday appealed to Minister of Education Kader Asmal to see to it that provincial education departments do not put pressure on Afrikaans medium schools to change their language policy to make provision for a few English pupils.
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/ 13 January 2004
A United States army Apache attack helicopter was shot down in Iraq on Tuesday, the third downed in less than two weeks, though the crew escaped unharmed. In Baghdad, US troops reacting after a deadly roadside bomb shot at a car, killing its Iraqi driver and a 10-year-old boy, relatives said.
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/ 13 January 2004
Sudanese government planes have bombed the town of Tine in Sudan’s western Darfur region, a diplomat in Chad said on Tuesday. ”The bombardment comes after an ultimatum made a few days ago by the Sudanese authorities, demanding that the town of Tine be evacuated,” the diplomat said.
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/ 13 January 2004
About 1Â 800 workers employed at Parmalat SA factories have an anxious six months to wait as the Food and Allied Workers Union joins forces with the senior management of the South African subsidiary in a bid to stave off job losses. The union and top management met for the first time on Tuesday.
Parmalat SA: ‘Even the cows are happy’
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/ 13 January 2004
White Zimbabwean commercial farmers have created more than 4 000 jobs in neighbouring Mozambique, where they settled after being ousted from their land back home, a regional governor said on Tuesday. He said there are about 100 Zimbabwean farmers in the fertile districts of Manica province.
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/ 13 January 2004
The Gauteng government stands to recover in excess of R200-million from unscrupulous developers and contractors in its probe into corruption in housing development, the provincial housing department said on Tuesday. Until March last year about 20 projects were investigated, involving more than 2 400 acts of fraud.
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/ 13 January 2004
A day after a Zimbabwean editor and two reporters were released from jail, they found themselves threatened by the government again, this time for alleged racism. The government’s press control body accused the privately owned Zimbabwe Independent weekly of racism, after the newspaper published a letter saying Zimbabweans were as docile as ”a herd of wild beasts”.
‘The press is being trampled’
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/ 13 January 2004
The South African rand broke above the R7 per dollar level just before 2pm on Tuesday as geopolitical concerns continued to dampen sentiment towards the local unit. While market analysts said it was too soon to call an end to the rand’s firming trend, the local unit could be in for further weakness in coming days.
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/ 13 January 2004
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille has called on President Thabo Mbeki to make an announcement on the national and provincial election date. But a spokesperson for the presidency, Bheki Khumalo, said it was the president’s ”prerogative” to call the election.