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/ 12 January 2004
The African National Congress will fight an old-fashioned election campaign this year instead of a modern media campaign. This is partly because the organisation is cash-strapped and simply cannot afford a modern-style campaign.
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/ 12 January 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) launched what promises to be a bitter election campaign on Sunday by promising to tackle the poverty and unemployment that plague South Africa 10 years after apartheid. Unveiling a sweeping election manifesto, President Thabo Mbeki declared his party’s intention to loosen its conservative economic policies by ramping up public spending.
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/ 12 January 2004
Human rights campaigners in Kenya have accused their government of ignoring the plight of pastoral communities that are involved in a compensation case against the British government. Maasai and Samburu pastoralists have sued Britain’s Ministry of Defence for injuries caused by military ordnance left behind by its troops.
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/ 12 January 2004
In the Bush White House, Paul O’Neill was the bespectacled swot in a class of ideological bullies who eventually kicked him out for raising too many uncomfortable questions. Now, in his new book, he says the administration came to office determined to oust Saddam Hussein and used the September 11 attacks as a convenient justification.
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/ 12 January 2004
Elephant trainers in Limpopo are planning to capture 24 young elephants from the wild and train them for elephant-back safaris, despite two near-fatal incidents involving elephant rides over the Christmas period.
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/ 12 January 2004
Research recently undertaken at the University of North Edmonton in Canada has been published to some controversy in a doctoral thesis entitled Causative Social Metaphors of Male Shaving Habits. The thesis exposes and analyses what it terms “shaving behavioural patterns”, formulated from about 700 observations over three years.
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/ 12 January 2004
ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) You might find your limited cognitive faculties stretched to their limits. Try not to think, except about why the president is still making promises about anything. Famous Arian: Professor Spike Bhulalamlunghu, Shangaan soothsayer, who claims to be inventor of the toyi-toyi. TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) Expect a […]
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/ 12 January 2004
In a shocking blow to the local economy, authorities have announced that the petrol price is set to rise by R5,25 a litre in the first week of February. Diesel and household paraffin will rise by R4 and R6 a litre respectively. A contradictory but optimistic forecast for the new year shows how the economy is affected by everything and nothing at all.
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/ 12 January 2004
A groundsman at Bloemfontein College, where Hansie Cronje once studied, was the first to witness what has been described as a “near miraculous” event. This is the first of several similar events that witnesses say are certain proof that the late Cronje is desperately trying to “make contact from the other side”.
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/ 12 January 2004
Olympics too stale: Palace Gate Scaling is being considered as a new sport to be recognised by the International Olympic Committee. This comes after a protester managed to scale the formidable iron gates in front of Buckingham Palace. A spokesman for Update the Olympics, a lobby group intent on bringing topical relevance to the games, […]