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/ 12 January 2004
Germany’s ambassador to Namibia expressed his country’s ”regret” on Sunday over the ruthless quelling of the Herero tribe uprising a century ago in which tens of thousands were slaughtered by German colonial troops.
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/ 12 January 2004
The African National Congress will fight an old-fashioned election campaign this year instead of a modern media campaign. This is partly because the organisation is cash-strapped and simply cannot afford a modern-style campaign.
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/ 12 January 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) launched what promises to be a bitter election campaign on Sunday by promising to tackle the poverty and unemployment that plague South Africa 10 years after apartheid. Unveiling a sweeping election manifesto, President Thabo Mbeki declared his party’s intention to loosen its conservative economic policies by ramping up public spending.
Mbeki ill
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/ 12 January 2004
Human rights campaigners in Kenya have accused their government of ignoring the plight of pastoral communities that are involved in a compensation case against the British government. Maasai and Samburu pastoralists have sued Britain’s Ministry of Defence for injuries caused by military ordnance left behind by its troops.
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/ 12 January 2004
In the Bush White House, Paul O’Neill was the bespectacled swot in a class of ideological bullies who eventually kicked him out for raising too many uncomfortable questions. Now, in his new book, he says the administration came to office determined to oust Saddam Hussein and used the September 11 attacks as a convenient justification.
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/ 12 January 2004
Elephant trainers in Limpopo are planning to capture 24 young elephants from the wild and train them for elephant-back safaris, despite two near-fatal incidents involving elephant rides over the Christmas period.
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/ 12 January 2004
Peter Phillip, the owner of Makulu Makete game farm in the north of Limpopo Province, has been forbidden to use the "g-word". "People have grown so tired of me talking about grass that it has now been reduced to the ‘g-word’," says the former mine magnate turned conservationist. Yolandi Groenewald takes a look.
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/ 12 January 2004
Eyes wide empty: International newspaper The Onion reports that the torture instruments of Saddam Hussein’s two dead sons, Uday and Qusay, are to be sold at auction in London. It is believed that a bitter ‘inside” fight has taken place between the leading auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christies, for the instruments. The favourite torture instruments […]
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/ 12 January 2004
Olympics too stale: Palace Gate Scaling is being considered as a new sport to be recognised by the International Olympic Committee. This comes after a protester managed to scale the formidable iron gates in front of Buckingham Palace. A spokesman for Update the Olympics, a lobby group intent on bringing topical relevance to the games, […]
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/ 12 January 2004
A groundsman at Bloemfontein College, where Hansie Cronje once studied, was the first to witness what has been described as a “near miraculous” event. This is the first of several similar events that witnesses say are certain proof that the late Cronje is desperately trying to “make contact from the other side”.