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/ 20 February 2003
It took just two hours yesterday for representatives from 145 countries to abandon their latest attempt to decide how and even whether the poorest people in the world should get access to affordable medicines.
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/ 20 February 2003
Botswana is letting mining companies explore for diamonds in parts of the Kalahari desert from which San Bushmen were recently evicted, renewing the accusation that the country’s oldest ethnic group is the victim of a plot by the government and multinational companies.
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/ 20 February 2003
The Bush administration’s determination to keep to a tight timetable that would see its forces ready to go to war against Iraq by early March is in danger of coming unstuck.
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/ 20 February 2003
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa drifted into the red by noon on Wednesday, taking its cue from weaker world markets. As was the case earlier in the week, the market was very quiet with low volumes.
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/ 20 February 2003
The practice of female genital mutilation is still prevalent in 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, but villagers across Africa are now discussing and debating the generations-old practice, once a taboo topic. And, although still on a modest scale, they are increasingly giving it up
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/ 20 February 2003
So what is ultra-leftism? The label has been used without pausing to provide a serious analysis or substantive definition of social movements and ”ultra-leftism”. Ultra-leftism tends not to understand the struggle as process. Everything is immediate, all-or-nothing, victory or sell-out
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/ 20 February 2003
A new video and CD package is the first in a planned series by self-styled sensualist Jonti Searll and video-production duo Kevin and Tanya Factor, who believe the venture will teach adults some techniques to improve their love lives
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/ 20 February 2003
South African cricket captain Shaun Pollock has described the lifeline thrown to his side courtesy of a no result in Benoni as an opportunity to mould their own destiny.
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/ 20 February 2003
As politicians and policymakers gathered at 10 Downing Street in February for the first of a series of meetings ahead of the progressive governance conference in July, attention was focused on the possibility of conflict in Iraq. Centre-left politics must be redefined to cope with a more insecure world, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair