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/ 13 January 2004
The Israeli government has said it expects to begin withdrawing from parts of the occupied territories and redefining their borders to create an emasculated Palestinian state if there is no progress towards a negotiated peace settlement.
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/ 13 January 2004
A Belgian cardinal who is among the leading candidates to succeed Pope John Paul on Monday broke the Roman Catholic church’s taboo on the use of condoms, declaring that, in certain circumstances, they should be used to prevent the spread of Aids.
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/ 13 January 2004
He did not get a private jet, but King Mswati III has found another way to drain Swaziland’s treasury: a palace for each of his 11 wives. Sub-saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch has reportedly asked his government for R102-million to redecorate three royal palaces and build 11 new ones — a big sum for a tiny country reeling from drought, food shortages and HIV/Aids.
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/ 13 January 2004
A bigamist from South Africa who admitted infecting a woman with HIV was jailed for six years on Monday for recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm on his victim. Kouassi Michel Adaye (40) who pleaded guilty on Friday, came to Britain five years ago, claiming asylum.
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/ 13 January 2004
The international news agency Reuters has made a formal complaint to the Pentagon following the ”wrongful” arrest and apparent ”brutalisation” of three of its staff this month by United States troops in Iraq. The complaint followed an incident at Falluja when US soldiers fired at two Iraqi cameramen and a driver from the agency while they were filming the scene of a helicopter crash.
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/ 13 January 2004
Corrupt fat cats in Malawi continue to walk around with their heads held high, even though they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar. The consequences of their acts are set to remain a burden on this poor Southern African country of more than 11-million people as it prepares to go to the polls in May.
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/ 13 January 2004
"An educationist should never be made a minister of education, just like a military person should not be made minister of defence," Kader Asmal, then water and forestry minister, told the <i>Sunday Times</i> in 1996. "They bring their own activist ideas, but there is more to it than that [activism]."
As the matric furore rages, spotlights focus on the man at the centre, Minister of Education Kader Asmal, reports
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/ 13 January 2004
While out for dinner recently, my brother said something unusually strange. He told us that an odd thing had happened to him, many years ago, at the tender age of 16 … And that set me thinking about fantasies. Is there a correlation between our fantasies and our actual desires?
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/ 13 January 2004
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is a truism obviously followed by Kawasaki in the evolution of their KLR650 on/off road motorcycle. The bike’s been with us since 1987 with very few significant changes. Gavin Foster climbs on board and takes us for a spin.
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/ 13 January 2004
Leave the children alone! That was the main import of the Department of Education’s emergency press conference last week about the matric results. But, once again, the truth was hidden behind statistics.