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/ 25 November 2005
Iraqi officials have promised to deploy up to 10 000 extra men to boost security ahead of a December 15 general election after a rebel bombing campaign killed more than 180 people in the past week. Both United States and Iraqi officials have warned of the likelihood of increasing violence ahead of the elections.
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/ 25 November 2005
"If you love life, then it’s the field for you. It will lead you, as it led me, because I love people, and I care about the quality of what they do," said Elizabeth Sneddon, South Africa’s first speech and drama professor, who died on Thursday at the age of 98. Sneddon, who never married, died at her home in Durban, a local radio station reported.
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/ 25 November 2005
He may have the image of a dour, cloistered Oxford don with little knowledge of ordinary struggles. But CS Lewis, who wrote of epic struggles between good and evil in the imaginary land of Narnia, actually had a humorous side, his stepson says.
Douglas Gresham (60) is co-producer of the film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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/ 25 November 2005
The real growth rate of the South African economy is expected to moderate next year, but remain at or above 4% for four years in a row, Econometrix economist Azar Jammine told a media briefing on economic prospects hosted by Noah Financial Innovation on Friday.
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/ 25 November 2005
A massive hunt was under way on Friday for four men who shot dead a Johannesburg metro police officer and critically injured a South African Police Service officer and another metro police officer. Police spokesperson Sergeant Sanku Tsunke said the police officials were shot at with handguns and automatic rifles.
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/ 25 November 2005
The rand is forecast to remain stable against the dollar over the next three years, but depreciate on a trade-weighted basis, as the United States current-account deficit leads to dollar weakness, Econometrix economist Azar Jammine told a media briefing on economic prospects on Friday, hosted by Noah Financial Innovation.
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/ 25 November 2005
Best the DA has to offer? It is laughable that the DA’s Athol Trollip is putting himself forward to replace Tony Leon at national level (“Trollip in race for DA’s top job”, January 12). Claiming that he can fill Leon’s shoes, albeit with difficulty, Trollip boasted on TV: “I am white on the outside and […]
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/ 25 November 2005
I hear the Arch I refer to the outraged responses to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s wish that whites would say “I’m sorry” and “thank you” to “the vast majority of people in this country who have been so forgiving about the past”. The fact is that any white people who lived in South Africa before 1994, […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Welcome — but don’t affirm Many people must look on in amazement at the heated debate in the church on homosexuality — particularly in a society like ours, which feels it has moved on. Last week’s article by Bishop David Russell (“It is time to repent”) was in an appropriate vein — one of humility […]
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/ 25 November 2005
Prove it or shut up! Since May this year, the Mail & Guardian has fed us a series of articles on police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s alleged “links” with people allegedly under investigation by the so-called elite crime-busting unit for alleged contraband networks. Yet to date no one has been charged with crime related to […]