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/ 21 October 2002

Give us facts, not rhetoric

David McDonald’s article last week supposedly backing the Cosatu anti-privatisation strike is typical of the obfuscation around this issue, not helped by the government’s inability to sell its own programme. He rounds up the usual suspects: the World Bank, the WTO, big business, and multinationals.

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/ 21 October 2002

Cabinda: A province still at war

The gas flares from the offshore oil rigs light up the night sky over Cabinda and the orange glow silhouettes the crucifixion statue outside the Catholic mission next to the sea. Inside, members of the Catholic Youth of Cabinda are debating the future of Angola’s northernmost province.

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/ 21 October 2002

It’s a feeling in the feet

Last Friday, September 13, was a bad day for the elephants of the Sabi Sands game reserve next to the Kruger National Park. Normally placid herds charged around in apparent terror, trumpeting, shaking their heads and running with their tails stuck straight out behind them.

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/ 18 October 2002

Nobel cheat

A literary storm has broken in Spain, where Camilo Jose Cela, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, has been accused of regularly using ghostwriters for most of his career, writes Giles Tremlett.