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/ 14 November 2003
Liberia has announced the preservation of 62 000 hectares of forest land in efforts to ease sanctions and rebuild its shattered landscape after 14 years of nearly unabated war. Legal logging has been banned under United Nations-imposed sanctions since July, amid concerns that trees were felled in an environmentally-harmful way.
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/ 14 November 2003
Riaan Wolmarans attends Red Bull’s DJ school in a refurbished sailor’s club in Cape Town, and it’s no connect-the-dots course for kids messing around with second-hand decks in their bedrooms. The students are masters themselves.
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/ 14 November 2003
National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka did not bother to attend the hearings investigating whether he was an apartheid spy this week. Well, whatever the reason, it was a good decision. A plethora of excuses is making the
commission’s work tougher.
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/ 14 November 2003
South Africa accounts for between 96% and 99% of all cars reported stolen in Southern Africa. Of these, however, one in five is believed to be a fake hijacking, says the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). It is believed that car-owners cooperate with networks to ‘get rid of their vehicles’ and submit false insurance claims.
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/ 14 November 2003
Gone are the days when psychotherapy was just for the rich and privileged. From next year clinical psychologists will be providing free mental health care to disadvantaged communities as part of their compulsory community service.
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/ 14 November 2003
The Western Cape secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Tony Ehrenreich, is seeking President Thabo Mbeki’s help in his battle with the provincial government over a growth and development strategy for the province.
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/ 14 November 2003
She is well known for her writing about how she was raped, her fight against Aids, her tireless passion for human rights. But this week journalist Charlene Smith found herself on the wrong side of her own polemics. She was arrested for violating a protection order brought against her by her former lover.
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/ 14 November 2003
Vista University has sent a letter to Minister of Education Kader Asmal ”alerting” him that in terms of the Higher Education Act he cannot close the university at the end of the year. The government gazetted its intention to do so in December last year.
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/ 14 November 2003
Contrary to public pronouncements that the rand’s strength is almost exclusively due to United States dollar weakness, the move of the rand to its best trade-weighted level since July 18 2001 gives the lie to this reason. The trade-weighted rand has strengthened by a massive 26% since its worst level in January this year.
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/ 14 November 2003
The ladies of the Rylstone and District Women’s Institute in Yorkshire, England could hardly have known that their story, in the form of the movie Calendar Girls, was going to be the female Full Monty, writes Peter Bradshaw.