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/ 25 February 2004
It is, you might think, the sort of thing that only happens in the fantastical, colourful world of ”magical reality” conjured up in the stories by the Colombian Nobel prize-winner Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez.
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/ 25 February 2004
World leaders must address the ”ethical vacuum” at the heart of globalisation or face the danger that the widening gap between rich and poor will lead to further conflict, political upheaval and war, the International Labour Organisation said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 February 2004
In the same week that the Swiss went to the polling booths to decide, among other things, what to do about dangerous criminals preying on their children, the people of Katlehong also made their views on the matter known. The East Rand community decided there and then to castrate a man who was allegedly caught raping a five-year-old child.
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/ 25 February 2004
How Stephen Hawking spent Valentines Day, the true origins of humanity, odd blobs on Mars and George Dubya’s little known cocaine habits — Ian Fraser brings you the world in one web browser. Take a look what you missed in mainstream newspapers this week.
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/ 25 February 2004
Marina Bidoli of the <i>Financial Mail</i> has emerged as the overall winner of the Telkom ICT (information, communications and technology) journalist of the year awards for 2003, with Ivo Vegter (<i>ITWeb Brainstorm</i>) and Robyn Chalmers from <i>Business Day</i> placed second and third.
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/ 25 February 2004
Three critical pieces of health legislation are about to be signed into law or are being drafted for future legislation. These are the regulations relating to a transparent pricing system for medicines and scheduled substances, social health insurance and the certificate of need.
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/ 25 February 2004
When Lodi Gyari Rinpoche set foot on South African soil earlier this month as a delegate to the third World Conference on Democracy in Durban, he must have been struck by the historical parallels between this southern corner of Africa and his faraway spiritual home. This special envoy of the Dalai Lama believes South Africa has a moral responsibility to speak out against the situation in Tibet.
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/ 25 February 2004
Last August when President Thabo Mbeki visited what his imbizo programme called a "land reform project" in Ceres, he was perhaps unaware of the Deo Volenti farm’s looming ruin and tattered relations between farm workers, shareholders and the trust’s chairperson. But without enough seed, equipment or support,
a land reform dream in the Ceres Valley has become a nightmare.
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/ 25 February 2004
The growth of information technology, however, that has been identified as possibly the biggest factor behind the 419 email scams’ expansion. It’s estimated that the public is duped into sending them hundreds of millions of dollars each year, with the United States and Western Europe worst affected. But despite these efforts, it appears the scam is going from strength to strength.
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/ 25 February 2004
In the first three months of the United Nations’s 2003 Iraq appeal, donor governments raised nearly $2-billion — $74 for every person in the country. In comparison, the Democratic Republic of Congo — where an estimated three million people have lost their lives in years of conflict — has received only $17 a person.