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Double CD <i>The Winds of Change (African Cream)</i> coincides with our celebration of 10 years of democracy. The result is an aural tribute to our history, particularly the dark apartheid years, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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The chairperson of the African Union, President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, is "very concerned" about an outbreak of fighting in Côte d’Ivoire and plans to host a crisis meeting of regional leaders on Saturday, his spokesperson said. "The president is very concerned about the situation," the spokesperson said.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Africa&ao=124978">Warplanes bomb Côte d’Ivoire city</a>
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If 2000 felt like being robbed, this felt like a mugging. Don’t get me wrong, United States George Bush won fair and square, by a greater margin in the popular vote than Ronald Reagan did in 1984. But by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, Democrats up and down the country were suffering from delusions of imminent victory.
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/ 5 November 2004
Thales said on Friday it had won a contract from the British defence ministry for the maritime unmanned air vehicle (UAV), or drone, portion of the ministry’s joint UAV experimentation programme. The French defence electronics group will lead the consortium that won the contract, which also includes Boeing of the United States and QinetiQ of Britain.
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/ 5 November 2004
Structural changes that have been implemented over the past decade of freedom will support faster South African economic growth, raising growth from an average of only 1% in the decade prior to April 1994 to an average of 3% in the subsequent decade, with the prospect that growth will average more than 4% in the decade ahead, says Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel.
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/ 5 November 2004
South Africa’s official opposition, the Democratic Alliance, says small and medium businesses should be excluded from costly — and bureaucratic — burdens imposed by the Employment Equity Act. Charges of alleged employment-equity violations against eight KwaZulu-Natal clothing companies will cost thousands of jobs, the DA said.
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/ 5 November 2004
When Nirvana performed Lithium at the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards, Kurt Cobain wore a curious T-shirt with a frog logo and the question, ”Hi, how are you?” The shirt was designed by a man Cobain frequently declared his all-time favourite songwriter: Daniel Johnston. Today, Johnston remains not only an influence musicians wear on their sleeves, but a kind of godfather of low-fi pop.
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Ubuntu. Humanity to others. What is mine is yours. The ancient African word now applies to a new, free operating system for your computer. Download it for free, use it for free and pass it on. Mark Shuttleworth, the first South African in space, launched the system in Johannesburg on Thursday. He is convinced Ubuntu will conquer the world of software.
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The JSE Securities Exchange was near an all-time high on Friday afternoon on the
weaker rand, resources stocks and buying interest in banks, brokers said. At 12.05am, the all share index was up 1,33% and the industrial index added 0,74%. Resources climbed 1,96%, while the gold mining index was up 1,04%.
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Michael Jackson faced fresh legal woes on Thursday after a man claimed to have recently remembered that the superstar sexually assaulted him 20 years ago. Court documents seen here showed that Joseph Bartucci filed suit this week in the state of Louisiana, claiming that repressed memories had revealed that Jackson repeatedly forced him into sex in May 1984.