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/ 24 October 2003
The polar ice cap is melting at an alarming rate due to global warming, according to Nasa scientists, with satellite images showing the ice cap has been shrinking by 10 percent per decade over the past quarter century.
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/ 24 October 2003
A hearing into an application by the Kagiso Consortium to restrain the Tiso Consortium from implementing a series of transactions to purchase shares in New
Africa Investments Limited which Kagiso contends amounts to an unlawful merger, will continue before the Competition Tribunal next Wednesday.
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/ 24 October 2003
Doctors at Zimbabwe’s government hospitals have gone on an indefinite strike demanding an 8 000% pay increase, their union leader said on Friday. "The strike started around midday yesterday," said Phibion Manyanga, president of the Hospital Doctors Association.
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/ 24 October 2003
The Department of Social Development has failed to produce guidelines to deal with the increasing numbers of orphaned children who need HIV- testing if they are to gain access to treatment once the government’s anti-retroviral roll-out begins.
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/ 24 October 2003
As Timothy Mlenje knows to his cost, Breast Cancer Awareness Month concerns men as well as women. Mlenje (57), of Berea in Johannesburg, had no idea that breast cancer could affect men, but today the scars on the left-hand side of his chest bear testimony to the existence of male breast cancer.
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/ 24 October 2003
The University of Transkei (Unitra) is ”appalled” at Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s announcement this week that the name of the institution to be formed by its merger with Border Technikon and Eastern Cape Technikon will be the ”Eastern Cape University of Technology”.
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/ 24 October 2003
The South African labour market is bracing itself for three strikes — mainly about wages. One of these, by workers at supermarket chain Shoprite Checkers and its subsidiaries, started on Thursday this week. Shoprite workers, represented by the Saccawu, are in dispute over the hours their casual staff are expected to work.
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/ 24 October 2003
Vista University will take Minister of Education Kader Asmal to court in an attempt to resolve disagreements over crucial details of merger plans, which have been in contention for two years. The court action threatens to delay the country’s largest tertiary merger.
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/ 24 October 2003
A rare spotlight fell on the second chamber of Parliament, the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), which sat for two days this week when it dealt with a battery of legislation already passed by the National Assembly, including Bills that have a strong bearing on the business community.
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/ 24 October 2003
The Hefer Commission looks headed for the rocks in its mission to establish whether Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid government spy. The commission’s stiffest challenge is coming from state security agencies unwilling to share information with it.