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/ 25 October 2006
Four gorillas are leaving Pretoria and heading home to Cameroon in time for Christmas. The International Fund for Animal Welfare said the gorillas, known as the Taiping Four, would probably leave for the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Douala, Cameroon, on December 7.
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/ 23 October 2006
Initiation schools could avoid problems by avoiding commercialisation and keeping strict control, a public hearing on initiation schools heard on Monday. ”We don’t do it for gain. We do it for the pride that’s involved, the spirituality, the richness that’s involved,” said Titus Kgatoke, the secretary of an Ndebele initiation school based in Thembisa, north-east of Johannesburg.
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/ 13 October 2006
Nearly 80% of South African high schools are failing their children, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) said on Friday. ”The bad news in South Africa is that nearly 80% of schools provide education of such poor quality that they constitute a very significant obstacle to social and economic development,” wrote Nick Taylor in the IJR’s 2006 transformation audit, titled Money and Morality.
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/ 10 October 2006
Rescuers lugged heavy equipment underground for kilometres, abseiled, waded through flooded tunnels and finally gave up searching on Tuesday for a man who fell in an abandoned mine near Barberton. ”We went through hell the last three or four days,” said Inspector Danie Theron, of the White River police search-and-rescue unit.
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/ 20 September 2006
The battle for positions in the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is about more than the political alignment between supporters of African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki and his deputy Jacob Zuma, said Professor Devan Pillay on Wednesday. ”The key factor here is the question of the relationship between the president and the general secretary.”
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/ 19 September 2006
By the end of the second day of the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) congress in Midrand, there was still no clarity on whether there was any official opposition to the present leadership. The nominations for new national office bearers for Cosatu closed on Tuesday but no details on any possible new candidates were being released.
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/ 14 September 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is not in an organisational crisis but will have to renew itself, says the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (Naledi). Naledi’s made the observation in its State of Cosatu report released this week, ahead of Cosatu’s national conference next week.
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/ 8 September 2006
Many more young women and men in their prime are dying and it’s probably due to HIV infection, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Thursday. "For some sex-age groups and some causes of death the increase in death rates between 1997 and 2004 has been truly astounding," said Stats SA in its report on adult mortality.
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/ 7 September 2006
The extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal must be dealt with urgently, international health experts said in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”There is no time to wait before we embark on decisive action,” said the World Health Organisation’s Dr Ernesto Jaramillo.
South Africa’s dams are 92% full, according to the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry’s records. The department reports on its website that the dams were only 65% full this time last year. This week, dam levels in the provinces ranged from overflowing in the Northern Cape to 72% full in Limpopo.