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/ 27 February 2005
According to an article in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> two weeks ago, Professor Shadrack Gutto of the University of South Africa criticised the Judicial Service Commission and implicitly the judiciary for having failed to take effective action to establish procedures to deal with complaints against judges. Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson responds.
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/ 27 February 2005
"The only explanation I can fathom for the Movement for Democratic Change’s participation in next month’s Zimbabwean Parliamentary election is that they are only doing what my great-aunt advised me to do many years ago. All they need is an election, any election. Why else would they be participating in an election so flawed and so hopeless?" writes Everjoice Win.
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/ 27 February 2005
President Thabo Mbeki and former president Nelson Mandela heaped praise on the late Raymond Mhlaba at his funeral in Port Elizabeth on Sunday. ”Raymond Mhlaba was one of the most committed comrades I had the honour to know and work with in my many years in the liberation struggle,” Mandela told mourners.
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/ 27 February 2005
Togo’s new leader, Abass Bonfoh, made interim head of state during the night by Parliament, on Saturday promised ”free and open elections” within 60 days, to end a political crisis that has seen the country isolated internationally. He was speaking the day after army-installed ruler Faure Gnassingbe stood down, pledging an election.
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/ 27 February 2005
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tokelau called for food and medical supplies on Saturday after suffering heavy damage from tropical Cyclone Percy. As the powerful storm headed towards American Samoa’s Swains Island, residents on the New Zealand-administered Tokelau islands began counting the cost of the battering from gale-force winds and high seas.
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/ 27 February 2005
A fire that engulfed the upper floors of a high-rise building in central Taiwan, killing four people, could have been started by welding equipment being used in a new restaurant, firefighters said on Sunday. The fire on the 22-floor Golden Plaza Tower building in Taichung city blazed for about 80 minutes on Saturday before it was put out.
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/ 27 February 2005
An recently established independent paper in Zimbabwe, the Weekly Times, has been shut down for allegedly violating the country’s tough media laws, its owner, Godfrey Ncube, said on Saturday. The paper is the fourth to be closed in the Southern African country since the enactment of the media laws in 2002.
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/ 27 February 2005
A former councillor has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a baby at Mpumalanga’s Ermelo hospital exactly 10 days after she was born, the province’s police said on Saturday. The baby was found at Boschfontein near Komatipoort on South Africa’s border with Mozambique, Captain Abie Khoabane said.
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/ 27 February 2005
A dozen HIV-positive women donned flowing evening gowns and glittering jewellery in Gaborone, Botswana, on Saturday to compete in a beauty pageant aimed at fighting the stigma that still surrounds the deadly virus in this Aids-ravaged Southern African country. Botswana has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection.