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/ 19 February 2004
Prominent Zimbabwean businesswoman and women’s activist Jane Mutasa and her son Terence have been detained on suspicion of corruption, the latest casualties in President Robert Mugabe’s anti-graft blitz. They were detained under Mugabe’s new anti-graft regulations, which allow for detention of up to 30 days without trial.
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/ 19 February 2004
Rwanda is to release a large number of prisoners accused of participating in the country’s 1994 genocide who have confessed to their roles in massacres that claimed the lives of up to a million people, the chief prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 February 2004
Advertising writers in Florida were planning to pitch haemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial featuring Johnny Cash’s classic song <i>Ring of Fire</i>, but his family says there’s no way they’ll let it happen. "We would never allow the song to be demeaned like that," said Cash’s daughter, singer Rosanne Cash.
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/ 19 February 2004
A prankster working for Cape Town’s former South Peninsula municipality who put an envelope supposedly containing anthrax on a colleague’s desk was sentenced on Thursday to a fine of R2 000, or 90 days in jail.
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/ 19 February 2004
Photographer Sean Wisedale became the first South African to have stood on the summit of each of the seven continents’ highest mountains on Thursday when he conquered the one closest to home — Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro. ”The view from the top is awesome and it is a fantastic experience,” Wisedale said.
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/ 19 February 2004
A Californian teenager discovered that he was apparently abducted as a toddler after he spotted a picture of himself on a missing children’s website. The 17-year-old was surfing the web when he stumbled across a picture of himself as a three-year-old. It was attached to the story of a child whose mother kidnapped him from his father’s home in Canada 14 years ago.
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/ 19 February 2004
Iranian officials were on Thursday investigating how scores of railway wagons loaded with chemicals, fuel and fertiliser managed to roll out of control, derail and explode causing the deaths of 300 people and injuring 450 others. The blast devastated nearby villages with a force measured as that of a small earthquake.
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/ 19 February 2004
The government of Botswana is offering voluntary HIV tests for anyone who goes to a medical clinic with a health problem.
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/ 19 February 2004
The United Nations special envoy for Eritrea and Ethiopia, Lloyd Axworthy, said on Thursday that Asmara had shown reservation to his visit, but vowed to continue his efforts to resolve the border dispute between the two states. ”The Eritrean president is showing reservation to my mission, but I am used to doors being slammed on my face,” said Axworthy.
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/ 19 February 2004
Department of Labour inspectors on Thursday recommended the prosecution of managers of listed retail group Mr Price’s store at the Boulders in Midrand after they denied inspectors access to documentation and prevented them from interviewing staff.