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/ 25 February 2005
The Libyan secret agent convicted of the Lockerbie bombing was moved on Thursday from his specially constructed ”Gadaffi’s cafe” cell to Greenock prison where he will be free to mix with other inmates. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has been in Barlinnie prison, Glasgow, since 2002, following his conviction in January 2001 of the murder of 270 people.
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/ 25 February 2005
Pope John Paul II on Thursday night underwent successful surgery to his windpipe after being rushed to hospital for the second time in a month with what the Vatican described as ”acute” respiratory difficulties. His spokesperson, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, said the 30-minute tracheotomy ”was performed and completed positively”.
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/ 25 February 2005
Cape Town’s Sea Point Pavilion’s walkway and the salt-water pool have become places where people from different cultures, economic groupings, generations and races mix, writes Jean Barker.
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/ 25 February 2005
Kate, in her mid-50s and married several times begins to feel a change, begins to care less about the material world and, in an attempt to prove this to herself, burns "several hundred-dollar bills just to demonstrate to herself that these items were not the God/Goddess of her life"
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/ 25 February 2005
Damaging though it may appear to onlookers, this week’s evidence in the Schabir Shaik trial does not seem to have shaken Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s supporters in the African National Congress-led alliance. Some still insist the trial is a smear campaign to discredit Zuma and thwart his bid for the presidency, while others maintain a wait-and-see attitude.
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/ 25 February 2005
Schabir Shaik’s defence is hanging by a thread — albeit a substantial thread named Jacob Zuma. As Shaik began testifying in his defence in the fraud and corruption trial in Durban this week, it became increasingly clear that crucial aspects of his evidence rely on Deputy President Jacob Zuma for corroboration.
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/ 25 February 2005
In 1911, Gustave Flaubert launched a valiant but vain broadside at the hypocrisy, doublespeak, platitudes and banality of the bourgeois chattering classes. Three years after the publication of <i>A Dictionary of Received Ideas</i>, World War I broke out. In 2005, Tom Eaton presents, in three parts over the next three weeks, a new dictionary of ideas.
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/ 25 February 2005
Two apparently unrelated pieces of news came up last week. In one of these, much was being made about the extravagant parties and celebrations that have become a regular feature of political life these days. The day after his State of the Nation address, President Thabo Mbeki threw a celebratory lunch-time banquet for no less than 1 500 guests.
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/ 25 February 2005
Children’s rights activists have long expressed concern over the extent of child trafficking and exploitation in West Africa. Recent events in Gabon might give them cause for hope, however. For the first time in its history, the country is to try persons accused of these crimes. Eight nationals from Benin and Togo have been indicted for trafficking and exploitation.
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/ 25 February 2005
When Anglo American persuaded South Africa’s government to relax exchange controls and allow the group to shift its corporate domicile to London, a central argument was that London domicile would allow it to raise money more cheaply for investment in this country. Much the same argument was put by BHP Billiton. It has not worked out quite that way.