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/ 23 January 2004
An internal probe into the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the government body responsible for air safety, has uncovered a sorry tale of financial mismanagement, inefficiency and sheer management incompetence. The CAA, funded largely from the public purse, has been dogged by a series of scandals.
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/ 23 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s popular independent <i>Daily News</i> — a fierce critic of the government — hit the stands for a second day on Friday, four months after being forcibly shut down by authorities who have renewed moves to gag it again. Like the previous day, the daily was snapped up by curious readers.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=30019">Zim govt seeks to gag Daily News</a>
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/ 23 January 2004
Take a prominent figure in a hotel room with a young female activist, a condom and an injured husband, add the backdrop of a social-values conference on foreign soil — and you have the ingredients of a juicily gripping scandal.
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/ 23 January 2004
When Michael Jackson wrote the lyrics ”But if you’re thinkin’ about my baby / It don’t matter if you’re black or white” for his 1992 hit single Black or White, he could claim significant expertise. Jackson has had a fair crack at being both. After years of appearing neither black nor white, it seems he wants to reinvent himself as black, writes Gary Younge.
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/ 23 January 2004
The national Treasury moved to secure maximum market stability ahead of the Budget next month when it announced its new director general and two key senior positions. Incumbent Lesetja "Congress" Kganyago takes over just as the final touches are put on the Budget, which will be unveiled on February 18.
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/ 23 January 2004
The Hefer saga may be over, but Mo Shaik faces a charge brought by a top former spy that he made up evidence to suit his thesis that National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy.
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/ 23 January 2004
”There are many roads into Wicklow county, but only one worth taking. It begins unpromisingly, snaking out of Dublin through the grimier southern suburbs, then, with barely a warning, it rears up the side of the mountain until the city is swapped for a landscape of wilderness.” Ian Prior visits an organic resort and discovers
a safe haven of rest and relaxation.
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/ 23 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s popular independent Daily News — a fierce critic of President Robert Mugabe’s government — hit the stands on Thursday four months after it was shut down by authorities but the government moved swiftly to close it again.
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/ 23 January 2004
Ariel Sharon has rejected calls for his resignation following the indictment of an Israeli businessman for allegedly paying him substantial bribes for political favours. But pressure on the Israeli prime minister grew on Thursday after he stuck doggedly to his refusal to explain publicly his relationship with the accused man.
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/ 23 January 2004
The bird flu crisis in Asia grew on Thursday as Thailand was said to have recorded its first human case and a warning was given that the virus could mutate into a more serious form. The World Health Organisation said that if bird flu started spreading between humans it could cause a more serious epidemic than Sars.