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11/29/2004:

"S.Africa's Tutu bites back in presidential spat"

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has refused to back down in a spat with President Thabo Mbeki, who has locked horns with the anti-apartheid hero for criticising the ruling ANC party.

Tutu -- long a thorn in the side of South Africa's former white governments -- last week stirred up political controversy when he used a public speech to blast Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) for "kowtowing" and stifling debate.

Mbeki, who led the ANC to a 70 percent victory in general elections in April, hit back, charging the Nobel Peace laureate with speaking out of turn and resorting to "empty rhetoric".

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