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/ 4 November 2003
More than 30 companies, foundations and other corporate entities around the country entered this year’s Investing in the Future Awards. The standard of most entries was extremely high, making the judges’ task in choosing winners a difficult one. The following is a brief list of the winners, finalists and entrants.
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/ 4 November 2003
In this editorial comment, which was to be published on October 26, <i>The Daily News</i> celebrated the integrity of the Zimbabwean courts. Little did the editors know that this meant nothing to the Mugabe government.
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/ 4 November 2003
The panel of judges for the Investing in the Future Awards 2003 comprised specialists in the field of corporate social investment. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> thanks them for their hard work in choosing deserving finalists and winners from the 31 quality entries in this year’s competition. The judges were:
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/ 4 November 2003
Petrochemical giant Sasol used last week to reflect on a trying year in which profits came under severe pressure from the strengthening rand, and the group suffered an explosion in its National Petroleum Refiners of South Africa refinery in Sasolburg while struggling to dispose of a plant in The Netherlands.
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/ 4 November 2003
Ten years after the watershed 1994 election, black buyers are starting to establish a meaningful presence in the real estate market. Their arrival, with declining interest rates, rising business confidence and other positive economic factors, is expected to bolster the market’s future sustainability.
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/ 4 November 2003
The resolution of land claims remains a key challenge for our young democracy and the land struggle by the Richtersveld community revealed that the courts appear to possess far more wisdom than the government in dealing with this problem. Thanks to the courts, justice has been restored.
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/ 4 November 2003
Imagine a city that functions like a rainforest, soaking up greenhouse gases instead of emitting them. It is an unlikely scenario in a world that seems powerless to halt the spread of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But John Harrison, a Tasmanian inventor, says this can be achieved just by changing the mix of the cement we use.
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/ 4 November 2003
On Saturday October 25 Zimbawe’s The Daily News was back in business. The 50 000 copies of that day’s edition circulated in the capital were sold out within two hours. By lunchtime on October 25 18 employees of the company were detained in a Harare police station. They had been forcefully removed from their offices while working on the newspaper’s Sunday edition.
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/ 4 November 2003
Strange days indeed at the Googleplex, the Silicon Valley home of half the assorted collection of self-styled geeks who make up Google’s 1 000-strong global workforce. For at least two years Internet pundits have been trying to second-guess when it would list. Users and company insiders fear that Google’s innovation will be sacrificed when the company goes public
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/ 4 November 2003
The already tense Burundi peace process acquired pressure-cooker status last week when a summit was called to sign final documents before vital technical talks had even started. The government of Burundi and the country’s largest rebel group picked up where they left off on October 8 with what were characterised as technical talks.