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/ 12 February 2007
If you type "Paul Harris" into Google, you’ll get results for a London fashion label, the South African cricketer, a Rotary fellowship, a basketball player and a magician. You’ll also get a couple of results that refer to Harris, one of the three friends who founded the FirstRand group and the company’s current chief executive.
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/ 12 February 2007
A potential £8-billion bid by a trio of private equity houses for British supermarket group J Sainsbury demonstrates just how bold and brave the fast-growing industry has become. If the deal succeeds the supermarket chain would follow United Biscuits, Birds Eye and Pizza Express parent Gondola into private hands.
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/ 12 February 2007
Official corruption in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta is robbing the local population of basic health and educational services, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The 107-page report describes health clinics lacking running water and electricity — not to mention mattresses and even the most basic medications — and schools without textbooks and chalk.
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/ 12 February 2007
Tony Blair may hang on as Britain’s prime minister for a few more months but as an international leader he is already history. When Russia’s Vladimir Putin talks European energy security or Kosovo these days, he talks to Germany, leader of the European Union and the G8.
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/ 12 February 2007
If an asset manager can defraud a large pension fund such as the Mineworkers Provident Fund (MPF), we have to question the relative safety of our pension fund assets. What safeguards are in place and what exactly is the role of trustees and watchdogs? Fidentia Asset Management, along with two other sister companies, was placed under curatorship recently.
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/ 12 February 2007
From Maseru to Gabon, China’s footprint in our continent is getting larger. Jean Jacques Cornish quizzed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad on China’s growing presence and power in Africa as China’s President Hu Jintao completed his fifth continental tour this week.
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/ 12 February 2007
Just before Christmas 2006, the Independent reported that "global warming had claimed its first victim": Lohachara island in India was swallowed by the rising sea. On February 2, the International Panel on Climate Change, a gathering of scientists from around the world, published its latest report on the overwhelming evidence for human-induced climate change and the dire prospects for life on Earth.
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/ 12 February 2007
In a few weeks previous employees of Old Mutual may learn the fate of their portion of the pension fund surplus. This will determine whether qualifying former members of the Old Mutual company pension fund will receive a joint payout of R82-million or just R2-million.
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/ 12 February 2007
Kibera, Kenya’s biggest slum, and reportedly one of Africa’s largest, has been basking in world media attention recently. At the recent World Social Forum, in the Kenyan capital, thousands of delegates marched through the teeming slum, calling on governments to give serious attention to the plight of a majority of their people forced to live in such terrible squalor as in Kibera.
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/ 12 February 2007
I know I’m going to despise myself for the following statement, but it’s something I feel strongly about, so here goes. I envy men. Yuck! What a horrible thing to say. I feel my Mum should be shoving a Bird’s Eye chilli into my mouth the way she did when she caught any of her children swearing in English or Hindi.