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/ 2 December 2005
Ghana’s soccer team have qualified for the World Cup for the very first time, and it is not only the fans that are cheering. So too are health campaigners, who hope that football fever might boost the fight against HIV/Aids. For the past three years, some of Ghana’s most promising young talents have been learning not only ball skills and match tactics, but also how to protect themselves from the HI-virus.
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/ 2 December 2005
There is light at the end of the tunnel for South African consumers who are frustrated by excessively high broadband Internet costs and having to wait months for their service to be connected. New draft regulations published this week by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa are set to shake up broadband service delivery.
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/ 2 December 2005
Oando CEO Wale Tinubu sits in the trendy Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst finishing a late lunch. In his shirtsleeves, Tinubu is in relaxed mode between interviews with South African media. It has been a big day. Oando listed last Friday morning on the continent’s top stock exchange, the JSE.
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/ 2 December 2005
Adding zinc to the diets of HIV-positive children helps protect them, researchers report. The South African scientists say zinc supplements are a safe, simple and cost-effective way to reduce illnesses such as diarrhoea, a major cause of death in poor communities.
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/ 2 December 2005
An investment company that had former Eskom chairperson Reuel Khoza as executive chairperson benefited to the tune of R65-million after IST Holdings, a JSE-listed company in which it held a 28% stake, was awarded a R260-million contract by Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd.
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/ 2 December 2005
While the government has identified six barriers to growth, I would like to add a seventh: income inequality and its impact on our well-being. The government has moved quickly to remove inequalities between racial groups. In 1975 government spending on the black population was 28% of total social expenditure, while spending on the white population was 55%.
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/ 2 December 2005
The resounding rejection by Kenyans of a draft constitution in a referendum backs President Mwai Kibaki into an awkward political corner and raises the spectre of a premature lame-duck presidency. Kibaki dangerously staked his credibility on the draft, which many Kenyans saw as perpetuating the post-colonial legacy of a strong presidency.
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/ 2 December 2005
A political earthquake is itself a rare event. Two major political earthquakes in quick succession is almost unheard of. But it happened in Israel recently with the election of Amir Peretz as leader of the Labour Party and the departure of Ariel Sharon from the Likud to form a new party.
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/ 2 December 2005
BP announced recently it is to build the biggest alternative power business in the world, capable of producing -billion worth of revenues a year from projects in Britain and abroad within 10 years. The move came on the eve of an announcement by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he would launch a six-month energy review that many believe will open the door to a new generation of nuclear plants.
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/ 2 December 2005
December was supposed to be the crowning moment for the United Kingdom’s twin presidencies of the G8 and the European Union. In Hong Kong, there would be a communiqué bursting with goodies for poor countries, so that trade could join debt relief and aid as the third leg of the UK’s anti-poverty agenda.