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/ 12 November 2003
Conservationist David Bradfield had an interesting story to tell about one of his visits to Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. Wearing the disguise of a tourist, he asked a group of curio sellers in the city whether he could buy ivory from them. "When I asked if they could offer some for sale, one vendor produced three bags of worked ivory, ornaments and souvenirs.
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/ 12 November 2003
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest company, has been taken to court by a group of former immigrant employees who have accused the US supermarket chain of conspiring with cleaning contractors to employ them in conditions that were ”one step away from slavery”, the workers’ lawyers said yesterday.
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/ 12 November 2003
George Soros, one of the world’s wealthiest financiers and philanthropists, has declared that getting George Bush out of the White House has become the ”central focus” of his life, and he has put more than -million of his own money where his mouth is.
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/ 12 November 2003
Iran has systematically covered up its nuclear programme for the past two decades and needs ”particularly robust” international inspections to dissolve fears it is developing weapons of mass destruction, the UN’s atomic energy agency has found.
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/ 12 November 2003
Vusi Mona, the editor of <i>City Press</i>, has resigned, it was reliably learnt on Wednesday by the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>. Mona has been at the centre of a media ethics row, accused of having outside business interests and a share in a public relations company doing work for the government.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23471">Resignation of editor confirmed</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23268">Sunday Times editor gets the boot</a>
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/ 12 November 2003
Despite cries of ‘trial by media’ and the refusal of editors and journalists to reveal their sources in front of presidential commissions, there is no media mogul or media house making our government dance to silly tunes.
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/ 12 November 2003
In what may or may not be his last word on the issue, David Bullard says hatred had nothing to do with his pursuit of Darrel Bristow-Bovey. Of course, they’re not best friends either.
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/ 12 November 2003
Advertisers may have gotten away with treating the consumer like a dupe in the past, but a lack of product differentiation is forcing a change. Harry Herber looks at the reasons behind the shift in mindset.
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/ 12 November 2003
What’s the use of an ‘off the record’ briefing if people can’t keep secrets? Tawana Kupe considers the question against the Ngcuka leak.
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/ 12 November 2003
Has coverage of the Ngcuka/Zuma affair verged on the libellous? Greg Hamburger and Toni Erling of RWR explain that the 1998 Bogoshi case gives the media unprecedented leeway on potentially defamatory comment.