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Britain’s Treasury chief called on Monday for extra funding to tackle poverty and disease in developing countries, ahead of a globalisation conference to be addressed by the president of the World Bank and the rock star Bono.
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Two political minnows announced on Monday their coming together to contest the general elections, united in their ”fight against moral decay and godless government”. The New Labour Party and the Christian Democratic Party signed their cooperation agreement on Sunday evening, following months of negotiations.
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/ 16 February 2004
Zambia’s labour movement has declared February 18 a day of national protest against the government’s decision to increase taxes and freeze salaries of the more than 120 000 public service workers. Just a week earlier, in a pre-Budget interview on television, the finance minister had assured he would not increase taxes.
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President Thabo Mbeki’s ”refusal” to debate with Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on television is a sign of growing presidential arrogance, disregard for the democratic process, and disrespect for the people, the DA said on Monday. The DA also said Mbeki is taking advantage of the calendar to elude tough questions.
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/ 16 February 2004
As Clela Rorex sits back and watches the national debate unfold over same-sex marriage, she smiles. She’s seen it all before. After all, the former Boulder County clerk and recorder issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples back in 1975.
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Environment Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa has announced his intention to designate five new marine protected areas, according to his department staff at Parliament on Monday. The areas will be designated in the government gazette on Tuesday.
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The New National Party has committed itself to building almost a quarter of a million houses by 2010 as part of a blueprint for eliminating the Western Cape’s housing backlog. The plan is contained in the party’s 92-page manifesto for the province, released on Monday by NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk.
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United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair ought to have the guts to say sorry for waging ”an immoral war” against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, according to excerpts of a speech Archbishop Desmond Tutu was to deliver on Monday.
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A Zambian court on Monday adjourned the trial of former president Frederick Chiluba, who is facing charges of corruption and abuse of office during his decade in power, with the magistrate rapping the prosecution for being disorganised. ”I am not impressed at all,” Magistrate Jones Chinyama said.
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About 1 100 marine scientists worldwide called on the United Nations to ban the use of deep-sea trawling nets, according to reports on Monday. They are destroying irreplaceably coral fields and sponges — ”like bulldozers”, according to the appeal.