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/ 29 November 2005
Businesses can no longer ignore HIV/Aids in the workplace if they want to continue to be a profitable enterprise, Aids experts have warned. "It is not only right for moral reasons for businesses to have an HIV/Aids policy in place, but it also makes business sense," said Scott Billy, a counselling and testing volunteer.
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/ 29 November 2005
More than 60% of people infected with HIV/Aids call Africa their home — and Southern Africa remains the epicentre of the global Aids epidemic, according to the United Nations’s report on the pandemic that was released recently. Despite some light points, the UNAids report paints a bleak picture of a region where the virus is having a devastating toll on human lives.
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/ 29 November 2005
Picture yourself as an HIV-positive teenager who logs on to the loveLife website for advice. Firstly, you would find the devastating (and untrue) information that after 10 years of anti-retroviral treatment "you will eventually die from Aids-related causes or the side effects of the drugs".
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/ 29 November 2005
On Tuesday, South African Football Association CEO Raymond Hack announced that Bafana Bafana caretaker coach Ted Dumitru will put his cards on the table and disclose preliminary details of his plans for the African Nations Cup finals in Egypt at a press conference on Friday.
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/ 29 November 2005
Broadband internet access, which finally made an impact on South Africa this year with the first 147 000 users settling into high-speed online lives, will almost double in usage in 2006 to 277 000 users. This is one of the key findings of <i>Broadband in South Africa 2005</i>, a new research report from World Wide Worx.
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/ 29 November 2005
Zimbabwe’s senior cricket players are boycotting the national team while their chief administrators are being investigated by the government-appointed Sports and Recreation Commission. The announcement came two days before the national selectors were to meet to select a squad to travel to Bangladesh in January for the Asian Cup.
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/ 29 November 2005
Ronaldinho has bad news for defenders around the world — he thinks he can get better. He won the Golden Ball award on Monday, selected as European player of the year, and he says it’s just the beginning. ”I want to come back and win next year and the years after that,” Ronaldinho said.
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/ 29 November 2005
Australia beat the West Indies by seven wickets in the third cricket Test to sweep the series 3-0 at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. The Australians, set 182 runs for victory, mopped up the required runs at 182 for three just after lunch on the final day. Matthew Hayden remained unbeaten on 87.
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/ 29 November 2005
Crude oil futures fell on Tuesday as unseasonably mild weather along the United States East Coast spurred hopes that this year’s northern-hemisphere winter could be warmer than expected, weakening demand for heating fuel. Light, sweet crude for January delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 31 cents to ,05 a barrel in Asian electronic trading.
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/ 29 November 2005
A horse-drawn wagon pulled up to the White House on Monday with a 5,6m Christmas tree that will adorn the Blue Room, marking the official start of the holiday decorating season. First Lady Laura Bush walked outside to receive the Fraser fir that was pulled up the driveway to the North Portico by two horses.