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/ 17 February 2004
The Khomani San community in the Northern Cape has laid claim to the whole Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The community won a land restitution claim five years ago in which it was awarded 36 000ha near the park. Two years ago the community was awarded another 25 000ha inside the park.
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/ 17 February 2004
United States and Canadian scientists are preparing to launch a -million study of the oceans using submarine robot laboratories linked by a 3 200km network of fibre optic cables. It means scientists and students on land will be able to monitor storms, observe plankton blooms, and track fish migrations as they happen.
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/ 17 February 2004
The number of women dying from pregnancy complications has kept rising in Africa, from 870 per 100 000 expectant women in 1990 to 1 000 in 2001, international consultant on reproductive health Joseph Kasonde said on Monday.
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/ 17 February 2004
Money illicitly siphoned from the UN oil-for-food programme by Saddam Hussein was used to finance anti-sanctions campaigns run by British politicians, according to documents that have surfaced in Baghdad.
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/ 17 February 2004
Jeremiah Saikong became the most popular man in any bar he walked into. Samuel Kariangei hanged himself. Kadurie Eletiko set up a taxi business and paid her father a dowry so she could marry the man of her choice. Dol Dol in Kenya is a rugged, arid place where money was once as scarce as water in the dry season.
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/ 17 February 2004
Mainstream newspapers don’t directly target the youth market, and it shows – most titles have less than a 20% penetration in the 16 to 24 age demographic. But there are still some products taking on youth boredom, argues Andy Davis.
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/ 17 February 2004
Yearly retrospectives, when placed on the news value ladder, generally fall somewhere below the “dog bites man” wrung – not even close to newsworthy. They can also be a bit dodgy on interest quotient – has anyone ever got past page 2 of <i>The Economist</i> “Year in Review” supplement? So one can guess that the form’s popularity is more a function of the year-end fatigue of editorial departments than a response to bags of beseeching readers’ letters.
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/ 17 February 2004
The 2004/5 Budget to be presented on February 18 will not be an "election" budget, in that it will provide goodies to voters, but it will nevertheless be expansionary, Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt told a media briefing late last week.
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/ 17 February 2004
Manuel was urged last week by a top economist to take "the big bang" with the relaxation of foreign exchange controls when he presents the country’s national Budget on Wednesday February 18.
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/ 17 February 2004
In the dying days of apartheid, FW de Klerk called his health minister, Rina Venter, and proposed the abolition of apartheid in state hospitals. During her subsequent investigations, Venter made a startling discovery: no laws specifically segregated hospitals. Doctors and hospital administrators had voluntarily enforced apartheid.