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/ 4 February 2004
Warders at Pretoria’s local prison seemed to have a ”bizarre fascination” with gay sex, a former prisoner told the Jali commission, which is investigation prison corruption, on Wednesday. Former inmate Louis Karp named the warders he claimed had made his stay in jail a misery one by one.
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/ 4 February 2004
The number of people who drowned following a boat accident on Monday on a lake in north-western Uganda has risen to 42 after police retrieved 23 more bodies from the lake’s shorelines on Tuesday evening, a senior police marine officer said. The boat was overloaded with more than 80 people.
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/ 4 February 2004
A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5,2 jolted northern Japan on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries, police said. The offshore earthquake was centered about 70km beneath the seabed just off the coast of Iwate prefecture, the Meteorological Agency said.
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/ 4 February 2004
Water scooped up by ships for ballast and dumped at the end of a voyage can cause as much damage as an oil spill by carrying marine life to new coastlines, environmental group the WWF warned on Wednesday. The water is loaded with marine species that can invade new environments when released in ports.
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/ 4 February 2004
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday accused world number two gold miner AngloGold’s Tautona mine near Carletonville of being the latest contributor to what it called the company’s "mines of death". This comes after two mineworkers died in an accident related to a mine elevator on Wednesday morning.
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/ 4 February 2004
President Thabo Mbeki is expected to review South Africa’s achievements and future challenges when he delivers his State of the Nation address to Parliament on Friday, according to analysts. Political and economic analysts are predicting that Mbeki would stick to safe topics.
DA suggests tips for Mbeki
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/ 4 February 2004
The fastest growth for IT outsourcing services will be in the government, financial markets, services, and discrete manufacturing, the latest forecast on information technology (IT) outsourcing indicates. Automated Reasoning MD Charles Anderson said the market opportunity for IT outsourcing services can vary largely.
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/ 4 February 2004
The new leadership of the beleaguered Ethiopia Free Press Journalists’ Association on Wednesday vowed to boost freedom of expression and to fight repression and harassment. Its vice-president, Getachew Simie, also insisted that the newly elected leadership was free from government interference.
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/ 4 February 2004
Two more fatalities in Vietnam lifted the death toll from the bird flu outbreak to 15 on Wednesday as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the disease is spreading so quickly that no part of Asia was safe. The warning came as a leading United States medical expert said China probably already has human cases of bird flu.
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/ 4 February 2004
The Church in Africa is concerned about United States pressure on African countries to introduce anti-terror legislation on pretext of fighting terrorism. The church is cautioning African governments against enacting such laws blindly, which it warns infringe on human rights.