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/ 25 November 2005
A new chapter in Soweto’s history will open on Saturday at 3pm, when a locally based community TV station goes on air for the first time. Armed with a special events broadcasting permit to coincide with World Aids Day, Soweto Community Television is embarking on a UHF free-to-air broadcast that ends on December 20.
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/ 25 November 2005
A senior government official has conceded that a major Independent Electoral Commission tender for indelible ink, used in last year’s national elections, might have been marred by conflict of interest. In addition, a Mail & Guardian investigation suggests the tender requirements were breached.
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/ 25 November 2005
When, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, brothers Saad and Ibrahim left their family home in the leafy middle-class Baghdad neighbourhood of Karada for the first time in two decades, they promptly got lost. After all, things had changed quite a bit over the 23 years that the al-Qaisi brothers had spent hidden away from Saddam’s secret services in a small upstairs room.
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/ 25 November 2005
Elections to a new Senate in Zimbabwe this weekend appear to have sounded the death knell for a party that posed the stiffest challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s rule. The elections have exposed deep divisions in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party and chances of two feuding factions reconciling have grown slimmer in the run-up to Saturday’s polls.
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/ 25 November 2005
Egypt’s month-long elections are heating up as voters prepare for a new round on Sunday that could see Islamists chip away further at the ruling party’s dominance in Parliament. More than 120 seats remain to be decided in runoffs for the second phase, which kicked off on November 20 and prompted a surge in irregularities and violence that claimed the first deaths of the elections.
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/ 25 November 2005
A dark-eyed, veiled doll called Fulla has invaded Arab toy chests, bringing a touch of the Muslim Middle East to a domain once dominated by the blonde blue-eyed Barbie. Fulla, like many Muslim women in the Arab world, has two sets of clothing. Form-fitting, revealing outfits are sported at home, while items that cover the arms, legs, neck and often the hair are donned in public.
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/ 25 November 2005
Sexual pressure from male political colleagues is a daily reality, woman MPs complained recently. They also said that ”traditional” sexual attitudes among certain male politicians added to the pressures. The abuse of political position for sex is among the many taboo issues thrown up by the rape allegations against Jacob Zuma.
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/ 25 November 2005
Protesters sang pro-Gauteng songs as they arrived at a public hearing about provincial boundary demarcations in Carletonville on Friday. They had come to town by bus from nearby Khutsong, where the issue has been the focus of recent violent protest.
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/ 25 November 2005
Arjan de Zeeuw is smarter than your average Premiership footballer, as Prime Minister Tony Blair might have been aware when he named him as a favourite player a couple of weeks ago. He is enjoying himself so much that the central defender is putting his real career on hold, he tells Paul Wilson.
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/ 25 November 2005
Tuesday’s was a game that had potentially disastrous ramifications for Alex Ferguson. An early departure from the Champions League would not just have wounded his pride, it might also have wreaked havoc on his chances of making it to a 20th anniversary at Manchester United.