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/ 24 February 2004
While party leaders in KwaZulu-Natal step up the rhetoric and war-talk ahead of the elections, communities on the ground are increasingly refusing to be used as cannon-fodder in political ”turf” wars. Eight people have been killed in clashes between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal in the past month.
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/ 24 February 2004
”Now, you have black faces riding in limousines along with white faces. But, the social and economic system has not changed, maybe even gotten worse.” Linguist Noam Chomsky has become a leading dissident voice in the United States. He talks exclusively to the M&G.
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/ 24 February 2004
London-listed Xstrata and South African Chrome & Alloys on Tuesday announced that they would merge their South African chrome and ferrochrome assets. The merger will create the world’s leading ferrochrome producer.
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/ 24 February 2004
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said he was not prepared to hold talks with the main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai because his Movement for Democratic Change party is a front of the Western powers. He also called some opposition party members, including Tsvangirai, shallow-minded.
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/ 24 February 2004
It was 10 on the dot on Monday morning when the usher called the International Court of Justice to order to hear the case against Israel’s West Bank ”security fence”. Inside the United Nations building, officially called the Peace Palace, everything went smoothly.
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/ 24 February 2004
A suicide car bomb attack at a police station in Kirkuk on Monday killed at least 10 people and wounded 45 others. The attack raised fears for the fragile peace which has held in the oil-rich, northern Iraqi city since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
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/ 24 February 2004
The public will get a chance to decide if a photograph that scientists claim to be a rare image of Vincent van Gogh is really the artist or a simple case of mistaken identity. Van Gogh painted more than 40 self-portraits but there are only two photographs in existence that are widely believed to be the artist — at the ages of 13 and 19.
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/ 24 February 2004
It could be billed as a case of David and Goliath, or at least the minnow against the whale. A French children’s book author told a Paris court on Monday that the main fish character in the Disney film Finding Nemo, which has so far grossed -million, was a direct copy of his own creation, a cheerful orange and white clown fish named Pierrot.
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/ 24 February 2004
Government troops swept through villages in northern Uganda on Monday, hunting rebels who were responsible for killing more than 200 refugees in one of the worst atrocities of recent years. As the death toll continued to rise, the government was also having to reappraise its strategy of arming local militias to defend civilians against the fighters from the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 24 February 2004
TV Africa’s application for liquidation signaled the end of a US$57 million vision for a pan-African television network. Although funded in part by the World Bank’s IFC, the business model was fatally flawed. Kevin Bloom reports.