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/ 23 January 2008
Public- and private-sector employers are unwittingly facilitating identity theft by giving detailed personal and financial product information on payslips. An urgent review of payslip practice is necessary at large employers, says life assurer Liberty Life. The "great payslip slip-up" has worried anti-fraud experts for some time.
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/ 23 January 2008
Homeowners and businesses are being forced to generate their own electricity as power failures bring South Africa to a standstill, but suppliers are running out of generators and many do not expect new stocks for weeks, a media report said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 January 2008
Police took away Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the middle of the night for questioning about a demonstration planned for later on Wednesday, his lawyer said. ”The police are saying they want to know what he is planning to do today,” said lawyer Alec Muchadehama.
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/ 23 January 2008
He has been accused of bullying the neighbours, turning off Europe’s gas supply and — as one diplomat appalled by Russia’s treatment of the British Council put it — ”punching a librarian”. But now Putin, apparently fed up with Russia’s poor image abroad, has decided to do something about it: he has sent for his old judo master.
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/ 23 January 2008
Dirty, polluted and congested — China’s large cities have an unenviably poor reputation. But Xiamen, located on the south-east coast two-and-a-half hours by plane from Beijing, is so different from that image that you could be forgiven for thinking you are no longer in China.
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/ 23 January 2008
Kimani Nganga sat in a classroom for the first time when he was 84. Four years later, the world’s oldest person to date to start school is stranded in one of Kenya’s camps for the displaced, with no classes to go to. Surrounded by about 300 other people displaced by post-election violence Nganga lives in a large tent packed with mattresses, white metal basins teeming with ants and bundles of clothes.
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/ 23 January 2008
Five years after its war officially ended, insecurity and rights violations remain widespread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Part of the problem lies with the army and police, which are undergoing major reform. Ernest Harsch examines the overhaul of both the police and army institutions.
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/ 23 January 2008
In 2002, the World Health Organisation warned that if nothing was done to improve access to maternal care in Africa, 2,5-million women would die before the end of the decade, and 49-million would be living with disabilities. While progress has been made since then, much remains to be done.
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/ 23 January 2008
A group of artists in Cape Town’s CBD are challenging and inspiring public thought, writes Eva Gilliam.
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/ 22 January 2008
Some of my colleagues have thought me rather odd because I do not buy into absolute right to freedom of expression. Apparently there is some code that requires that those who make a living by making views and events known in the media should believe they occupy a special place in the hierarchy of rights.