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/ 9 September 2004
The South African government is denying thousands of Zimbabwean refugees their right to political asylum, says a report published on Thursday by Refugees International. ”Genuine refugees are prevented from getting asylum,” said Andrea Lari, a researcher for the organisation.
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/ 9 September 2004
Russia fired the first salvo of its response to the attack on the school in Beslan on Wednesday by saying that it reserved the right to make pre-emptive strikes against terrorist training camps outside the Russian Federation’s borders. At the same time the security services put a -million bounty on the heads of the two Chechen leaders it claims are behind the Beslan massacre, Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov.
Russia warns of terror strikes
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/ 9 September 2004
When examining the Fair Trade movement it is important first to understand the concept of social consciousness. Becoming socially conscious does not require a paradigm shift in lifestyle — joining a commune, hugging trees or lying down in front of bulldozers. What it does require is lateral thinking and that you ask a few earnest questions about the products you buy, and, in this case, the places you go to on holiday.
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/ 9 September 2004
Patrick Bond has written an unashamedly biased, at times coolly angry, account of what he perceives is the right-ward shift of the post-apartheid South African state, particularly under Mbeki, writes Anthony Egan of <i>Talk Left, Walk Right</i>.
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/ 9 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was in positive territory in noon trade on Thursday, bucking the weaker trend on world markets. Dealers said that banking and gold stocks were driving the bourse higher. At 11h53, the all share index was up 0,24%. The financial and banks indices were 0,73% and 1,28% firmer respectively. The gold mining index gained 0,64%
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The mother of all pay talks, involving eight public sector unions and 1,1-million civil servants, is headed for a strike — again. In 1999, 2000 and 2001, this difficult wage round has gone into dispute and almost to strike. With six nights to go to reach a settlement, a strike seems increasingly likely unless cool minds and heads prevail. Workers have been balloted already.
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/ 9 September 2004
The trial of the 14 foreigners accused of attempting to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea last March has thrust the notoriously repressive regime on to the international stage. However, while the spotlight shines into the rat-infested cell the alleged mercenaries share in the notorious Black Beach prison, the political prisoners arrested two years ago remain mouldering in the shadows.
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The most important changes in South African higher education since 1994 are not to be found in the dramatic structural reorganisation of the sector or in the impressive policy/planning apparatus created for public institutions. Rather, I contend that the most far-reaching changes in higher education are to be found in the gradual, but systematic, erosion of historical standards of autonomy that were ingrained within the institutional fabric of universities.
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Manning Rangers shared points with Orlando Pirates when they drew 1-1 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. The home side led 1-0 at interval thanks to a goal by Edson Minga in the 30th minute.
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The omission of the world’s highest Test wicket taker Muttiah Muralitharan from the International Cricket Council awards made it a ”farce and a joke,” Sri Lanka’s former world cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga said Thursday. Sri Lanka’s star spinner Muralitharan was not given a place in the Test Team of the Year announced at the inaugural awards of the ICC, but the man who is trailing him,
Australia’s Shane Warne, was included.