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/ 27 February 2004
The Pentagon has ordered an urgent inquiry into reports that more than 100 American women deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been raped or sexually assaulted by fellow soldiers, it emerged on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2004
Mel Gibson has reneged on a promise to remove the infamous scriptural blood libel, in which the Jews allegedly accepted responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus, from his film The Passion of the Christ, according to one of the world’s foremost scholars, who saw a preview showing on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2004
So Honey Mateya, Metrorail CEO, will finally be subjected to scrutiny following his suspension last week. Transnet CEO Maria Ramos may find this a dignified way to facilitate his exit. Mateya was mired in a mess not of his own making. But he did not help himself by using spin to hide the rot.
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/ 27 February 2004
"Healthy brothels" — that’s the result of a service that takes health care to sex workers in Johannesburg. The Reproductive Health Research Unit (RHRU), a privately-funded organisation attached to Wits University, has set up mobile clinics in hotels used by sex workers.
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/ 27 February 2004
When Gauteng minister of finance and economic affairs Jabu Moleketi tabled his final budget on Tuesday at the Gauteng legislature he received applause all round, even from his nemesis in the Democratic Alliance. Having been one of the few provincial ministers to serve two full terms in the provincial government, Moleketi is now headed for an unspecified national role.
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/ 27 February 2004
The African National Congress’s decision not to release the names of its premier candidates suggests that all is not well within the provinces. The ANC has confirmed its decision and says it is not obliged to reveal the names because South Africa does not have a constituency-based system.
Sandi Majali, whose oil deals with Saddam we exposed, is no stranger to controvery.
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/ 27 February 2004
"The tiny island of Djerba off the east coast of Tunisia is infused with the stuff of dreams. It beguiled Odysseus’s crew and tempted invaders — from Phoenicians, Romans, Spaniards and Arabs to the Ottoman Turks and their state-sponsored pirates." Teresa Levonian Cole embarks on a desert safari in Tunisia, the gateway to the Sahara.
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/ 27 February 2004
"Along the main road of Airlie Beach — a quiet, coastal town in Queensland, Australia — the Internet cafés were buzzing as day turned to night with that peculiarly quick sunset you get in the tropics." Will Hide visited an island utopia for young, restless nomads with more dash than cash.
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/ 27 February 2004
"I never saw such an extraordinarily beautiful place in life as there, hundreds of feet below us stretched out the whole valley with our huts looking like specks, and in the distance there were hills rising one above another, with a splendid blue tint on them." I don’t know exactly where Cecil John Rhodes was when he penned the above lines, about 130 years ago, but it must have been somewhere very close to the viewing platforms overlooking the Umkomaas Valley at Duma Manzi.