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/ 8 November 2006
White British youths are more likely to believe they are superior to those from other races, and their attitudes are more of a barrier to integration than those of Muslims, a study for the United Kingdom government has found. The findings turn on its head the current debate about integration, where a succession of Cabinet ministers have told Muslims they must do more to fit in.
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/ 8 November 2006
Hundreds of people will soon be heading to various beachfronts, rivers and dams to cool off as part of the summer holidays. Sadly, many will return home in body bags. According to the Medical Research Council’s latest data, drowning is the second-highest cause of death by injury, and 61% of drownings occur in the sea, lakes and dams.
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/ 8 November 2006
With a lack of faith in the police seeming to have escalated in certain suburbs of the Mozambican capital, Maputo, citizens have lately resorted to taking the law into their own hands, and meting out rough justice to alleged criminals. This has resulted in a body count of more than 20 since August.
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/ 8 November 2006
Asperger’s syndrome is on the increase in South Africa, adding another challenge to teachers’ daily tasks. This was highlighted at an international conference on autism, held in Cape Town in October, which also focused on Asperger’s syndrome as the more verbal and high-functioning form of autism.
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/ 8 November 2006
England coach Andy Robinson has insisted Argentina pose just as big a threat to the struggling world champions’ hopes of an elusive win as anyone else they will face at Twickenham this month. England have lost their last six matches, a run that continued last weekend with a 41-20 defeat by 2007 World Cup favourites New Zealand.
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/ 8 November 2006
Three South African projects will be competing in the Commonwealth Good Practice awards, which will be announced for the first time during the 16th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Cape Town during December. An education good practice is an “education programme which has made a positive difference to the status or condition of primary school children, their teachers or the education system of a country”.
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/ 8 November 2006
China’s leader this week said his country’s relations with Zimbabwe are ”unshakeable”, but analysts see little benefits to the embattled Southern African nation, arguing that the Asian giant only seeks access to markets and raw materials for its booming economy.
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/ 8 November 2006
Mittal Steel South Africa on Wednesday said it knew nothing of planned protests by its workers’ union over high steel prices. The National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) on Tuesday said it was adamant it would ”mobilise a series of work stoppages, demonstrations, including general strikes in protest against steel price increases”.
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/ 8 November 2006
An innovative parenting programme is teaching children to run small businesses and make their pocket money go further. Backed by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Ka-Ching! Business Parenting course, which was launched last year, teaches children between the ages of six and 15 to budget, save and invest, and how to start and run their own businesses.
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/ 7 November 2006
A pamphlet stuck on a wall in Fordsburg advertising the healer ”Dr Ismael … from the Spiritual Mountain Kumi” offers solutions to a range of problems, from removing bad luck and making one likeable at work to providing muti if one is ”weak in sex” and helping ”women who can’t produce”. Read part two of the Mail & Guardian Online‘s report on traditional healers.