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/ 22 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s plans to process its uranium deposits into energy will slash the huge amounts the power-starved country pays to import electricity, Energy Minister Mike Nyambuya said on Monday. ”When we exploit it, we would like to use it for peaceful purposes and reduce our electricity importation bill,” the minister said.
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/ 22 November 2005
Rather than worry about how to get growth going, people should be worrying how to make the most of a South African economy that is "pumping", South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Monday. He was speaking at a media conference following a business round table with the government.
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/ 22 November 2005
The US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, on Monday rejected as ”corrupt and shameless” allegations that Americans were misled over the justification for the Iraq war, as the Bush administration defended itself against calls for a withdrawal. Those calls have become bolder as the death toll has risen.
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/ 22 November 2005
Margaret Thatcher forced François Mitterrand to give her the codes to disable Argentina’s deadly French-made missiles during the Falklands war by threatening to launch a nuclear warhead against Buenos Aires, according to a book. The book, to be published on Friday, is one of several on France’s first Socialist president to mark the 10th anniversary of his death on January 8 1996.
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/ 22 November 2005
Parktown Girls’ High School, north of Johannesburg, this month says goodbye to five out-of-the-ordinary Grade 12s. The school enrolled five deaf learners in 2001, but has been forced to decline any further applications from disabled learners because the cost of teaching them is prohibitive.
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/ 22 November 2005
Torquay, on the south coast of England (and a prime British holiday resort), is surely one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Not if you’re a penguin, though. For the black and white inhabitants of Living Coasts, Torquay’s harbourside zoo, the term "English riviera" holds no bleak tinge of irony even during the so-called "shoulder season".
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/ 22 November 2005
As the Aids pandemic gathers momentum, the number of people requiring treatment grows, and more are dying every day. The reality is that just a small number of those who need anti-retrovirals have access to them. A number of private initiatives have sprung up recently to pick up the slack.
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/ 22 November 2005
Cazombo sprawls along both sides of the single street that runs from the airstrip, past an echoing school and hospital building, to the oldest part of town where tile-roofed colonial villas are screened by the tortured shapes and thick scent of frangipani trees. Beyond lay a small open field of dry grass with a water tower and a vast satellite dish.
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/ 22 November 2005
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser Addy Moolman is to finally start serving his four-year jail sentence, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday. Judge M Legodi on Monday dismissed with costs Moolman’s urgent application for bail, pending an application to the Constitutional Court about the constitutionality of his sentence.
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/ 22 November 2005
United States media organisations are now skewering President George Bush over his case for ousting Saddam Hussein, but few questioned the pro-war juggernaut in the run-up to battle. Now, with the White House’s once-feared public-relations machine misfiring, Bush’s approval ratings plumbing their lowest depths, many commentators and journalists are piling on.