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A Limpopo farmer and three accomplices were to appear in the Hoedspruit Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after allegedly ”feeding” a ”troublesome” worker to a lion. The men were arrested on Monday at a game farm near Hoedspruit after police recovered the skull of 38-year-old Nelson Shisane’s skull and part of his legs.
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/ 10 February 2004
An appeal court judge in Kenya accused of having links with suspected drug traffickers appeared before a special tribunal on Monday, the first of a series of trials aimed at tackling corruption in the judiciary. Philip Waki is one of eight of the country’s most senior judges accused of taking bribes.
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/ 10 February 2004
The World Food Programme has run out of grain and rice to feed six million undernourished North Koreans as the standoff between Pyongyang and Washington takes an increasingly dire human toll. North Korea is suffering a sharp decline in donations as the United States and its allies increase the pressure on it to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
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/ 10 February 2004
Half of all Europeans may be suffering from some sort of allergy by 2015 if the escalating epidemic, which is responsible for millions of children missing school and being hospitalised and for adults staying off work, remains unchecked, scientists believe.
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/ 10 February 2004
Israeli human rights groups have asked the country’s supreme court to stop the construction of a vast ”security fence” through the West Bank, on the grounds that it breaches international law and creates a form of apartheid. They argued that Ariel Sharon’s government had spun a legal web to justify the ”intolerable, illegal and immoral” barrier.
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Now that the election date has been announced the Independent Electoral Commission plans to gather the party national liaison committee this week to discuss voting details. The committee will decide when to announce voters rolls, voting stations, and deadlines for oversees registration.
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/ 10 February 2004
Do a web search with the words "young voter", and most responses invariably include the word "apathy". But apathy is not necessarily the reason for a low turnout of young voters. We must address their issues, and not simply assume that the messages aimed at broader society will also make a difference for young people.
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/ 10 February 2004
Gender activists have welcomed the apparent U-turn by the government on the reintroduction of a clause in the Sexual Offences Bill, which will guarantee that rape survivors receive post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) treatment at state health facilities.
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/ 10 February 2004
Spilling out of their school in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, they are so keen to get a word in that, on a bitter afternoon, they are queuing up on the pavement to march. Most are against the law banning Muslim headscarves from schools. A few are in favour, and happy to say so. France is not the only Western state to face the demands of an increasingly radical Islam.
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/ 10 February 2004
For the ruling party facing a general election there are huge advantages of incumbency. Many are as unavoidable as they are inevitable. In South Africa, the ANC government can plan its policy roll-out to suit the election timetable. It can publish government studies, as it did last November, which extol the virtues of the government’s performance.