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/ 19 October 2001
THE Federal government in Nigeria has introduced a special food programme which will cost about N6,2-billion ($45-million) in a bid to tackle a possible food crisis in the country, The Guardian reported this week. The programme was set up following the high cost of staple food and the recently released Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) […]
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/ 19 October 2001
A DISTRAUGHT Eastern Cape family is suing the provincial blood transfusion service and a doctor at a public hospital after their child was allegedly given a transfusion without their consent – and the blood was contaminated with HIV. The family’s lawyer, Bantu Njamela, claims the one-year-old child was infected with the virus after a blood […]
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/ 19 October 2001
BRITISH Airways (BA) has slashed its fares by as much as 23% for flights between Harare and London during the rest of October and November, the official Ziana news agency said. “British Airways appreciates the financial difficulties being faced by Zimbabweans who wish to travel,” BA marketing coordinator Clare Wingfield told the state-run news agency. […]
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/ 19 October 2001
Rural women say the government has failed them on land reform Tara Turkington Diminutive yet fiery Emily Tjale was one of the first to take the stage at a historic assembly of 250 rural women, who gathered to denounce and mobilise against landlessness in Kimberley at the weekend. Tjale is a member of the community […]
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/ 19 October 2001
HOWARD BARRELL, BARRY STREEK AND MARIANNE MERTEN, Johannesburg, Cape Town | Friday CAPE Town mayor Peter Marais faces expulsion from the Democratic Alliance and the party’s deputy leader, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, will face disciplinary action if they fail to back down in their confrontation with DA leader Tony Leon. Leon is willing to risk the […]
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/ 19 October 2001
DREW FORREST and GLENDA DANIELS, Johannesburg | Friday The fascinating African National Congress document targeting an “ultra-left tendency” in the labour movement and the South African Communist Party is the latest broadside in a decades-old battle in the South African left over the role of trade unions. It revives conflicts in and outside the union […]
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/ 19 October 2001
Born in Trinidad, he had a breakdown at Oxford but went on to build a reputation as a world-class novelist. More recently, his personal life has come under scrutiny, his views have drawn accusations of racism and homophobia, and he has found himself at the centre of a literary feud. Maya Jaggi on an outspoken […]
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/ 19 October 2001
Matthew de Wet The recent attacks in the United States have placed stock markets under significant pressure. This has opened up a number of opportunities for investors and capital is flowing from the equity markets into the perceived safe havens of money market deposits and bonds. The fact is, however, that interest rates in the […]
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/ 19 October 2001
analysis Sean Jacobs and Jessica Blatt The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and the United States retaliation in Afghanistan have resulted in an outpouring of patriotism in the US, among African-Americans as much as anyone else. But the crisis has also put African-Americans in some odd and uncomfortable positions. Recent weeks have been […]
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/ 19 October 2001
ATHLETICS Martin Gillingham Let me tell you a true story. There’s this national leader who approaches the president of a global sports body and pleads him to stage his world championships in his country. “But you haven’t got a stadium big enough,” replies the sports boss. “I know,” says the politician, “but if you give […]