The battle for the heart of the South African university goes as far back as the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE) in 1996.
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/ 1 February 2009
Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, voting for provincial councils without a single major attack.
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/ 31 December 2008
The man putting together Iraq’s newest museum doesn’t like to be alone in his office, where he keeps bloodied nooses.
At a communal water station in a Baghdad slum, a young boy’s skinny arms fly up and down as he uses a bicycle pump to coax water from the dry ground.
European biodiesel producers said they were asking Brussels on Friday to impose punitive import duties on United States biodiesel but their US rivals said they would hit back with a complaint of their own. The trade in biofuels has surged due to growing demand for alternatives to fossil fuels as a way to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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/ 18 November 2007
At least 17 people were killed by explosions in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities on Sunday, Iraqi police and officials said. Nine people were killed and at least 20 others were also wounded in one of the worst attacks in the Iraqi capital in several weeks, which police said targeted Iraqi Finance Ministry adviser Salman al-Mugotar.
A senator is proposing a modest step to improve the efficiency of food aid donations from the United States, but the plan falls short of the Bush administration’s vision for reform. The US would spend -million over four years on pilot projects to vet aid donations that use crops purchased in developing countries.
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/ 11 October 2006
The United States is holding out hope for a breakthrough on world trade talks in the next six months, but Washington’s top trade official cautioned on Tuesday that the Doha round could be hampered by sensitive negotiations on farm trade and the US political calendar.