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/ 3 November 2004
Visits to health clinics, kindergartens and vocational training centres run by Hamas make it hard to believe the same Palestinian group sends out teenage suicide bombers to dispense death in Israel. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged Palestinian armed groups to stop recruiting children to carry out anti-Israeli attacks.
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/ 3 November 2004
Mike Mabuyakhulu, who acted for KwaZulu-Natal’s late local government minister Dumisane Makhaye when he was ill, has been appointed to the post, the province said on Wednesday. Mabuyakhulu was formerly the province’s minister of finance.
Makhaye died last month and was buried last weekend.
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/ 3 November 2004
Just a few kilometres from the surf and sand the Beach Boys celebrated, the city will dedicate a monument where Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson grew up. California Historical Landmark number 1Â 041 will be dedicated on May 20. The Wilson home was razed to make room for the Century Freeway, so the monument will sit at the end of dead-end 119th Street.
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/ 3 November 2004
It is a myth that South Africa is being flooded by refugees and economic migrants, the South African Human Rights Commission heard on Wednesday. The research director of the University of the Witwatersrand’s forced migration project said people should be wary of accepting claims that two to three million people are coming from Zimbabwe.
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/ 3 November 2004
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has warned that the marking of matric exams and the opening of schools in January next year will be adversely affected after declaring a dispute with the Department of Education on Wednesday. This followed a deadlock in Wednesday’s meeting of the Education Labour Relations Council.
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/ 3 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s silos ”are full”, and the country has enjoyed ”a wonderful harvest” in the last year, the country’s ambassador to South Africa, Simon Khaya Moyo, told the National Assembly’s foreign affairs portfolio committee on Wednesday. Moyo would not comment on the jail sentence of opposition MP Roy Bennett.
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/ 3 November 2004
The race by foreign banks for a chunk of the South African banking pie appears to be hotting up. The bid by United Kingdom banking group Barclays plc for Absa seems to be gaining momentum, and emerging-market banking group Standard Chartered has reiterated its intention to garner a bigger slice of the South African market.
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South Africans on Wednesday bemoaned a black day for the world and Africa as George Bush appeared headed for another term in office. ”I have been keeping my fingers crossed that the American people will see some light, finally,” said Amina Cachalia, a prominent anti-apartheid activist and a top campaigner for women’s rights.
SA politicians have their say