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/ 27 September 2004
Watching his brother "waste into death" as heroin finally broke his emaciated, convulsing body didn’t turn Abdullswamad Nassir (30). Neither did the late-night caller who threatened to murder the radio presenter’s family, after he’d pleaded with his community to "fight" the drug lords who have transformed Kenya’s pristine coast into a "graveyard".
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/ 27 September 2004
For months they were confined in anonymous boardrooms, breathing the recycled air of stalemate as a red wedge of social forces gathered itself outside for an assault on the simpler, better blue of the financial sector charter. And then, all of a spring afternoon, a thousand flowers bloomed: Blade Nzimande didn’t have to break down the door to the charter council, because Finance Minister Trevor Manuel had opened it for him.
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/ 27 September 2004
Kawasaki South Africa is bringing another budget-beating middleweight motorcycle into the country — this time a middleweight adventure tourer. The new KLE500 is a twin cylinder machine with the ability to go anywhere, any time, without costing an arm and a leg along the way.
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/ 27 September 2004
The SABC has more managers and supervisors than staff, which may partly explain why it produced a meagre profit of R3,4-million from turnover of R2,7-billion for the year to end-March. The SABC’s return on total assets for the period was a measly 0,2%. Privatisation of the SABC’s commercial arm would reduce absurdly inflated staff costs and bring other efficiencies, reckons Reg Rumney.
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/ 27 September 2004
His left leg missing, Jackson Acama stands uneasily on crutches. At 42, he is one of the oldest former rebels from the Lord’s Resistance Army to have taken up residence at the World Vision rehabilitation centre in Gulu, northern Uganda. By Acama’s own account, he was a major in the notorious guerilla movement. e Acama, many ex-rebels say they heard about the amnesty on the radio, especially Gulu’s Mega FM.
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/ 27 September 2004
Australian leg-spin genius Shane Warne is hoping for double success in the upcoming Test series in India by setting a world bowling record and mastering the hosts’ formidable batting line-up. The first objective is a mere formality as he is just six victims short of surpassing Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan’s world mark of 532 Test wickets.
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/ 27 September 2004
Botswana’s October 30 parliamentary and local government election is bound to resemble South Africa’s April poll in one major respect — we already know the winner. The hegemony of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in the country’s politics will assure it of victory — as it has in seven consecutive general elections since 1965.
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/ 27 September 2004
Iran announced this week that it had resumed producing uranium gas for enrichment as a nuclear fuel, three days after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told it to freeze all operations connected with uranium enrichment or face possible retaliation.
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/ 27 September 2004
Shosholoza crew member Sieraj Jacobs (25) of Grassy Park in the Cape lost the tip of his little finger on his right hand in a sailing accident on Thursday afternoon last week while practising with the team for the upcoming two America’s Cup pre-regattas which start next week off Valencia in Spain.
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/ 27 September 2004
”The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has noted with deep concern the recent story in the Mail & Guardian suggesting that MPs did not disclose business interests, as required by the parliamentary code of ethics,” writes Zwelinzima Vavi. ”How do we put an end to this big hurry to get rich faster?”