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/ 18 February 2008
The Health Professions Council of South Africa said on Sunday it was putting up its annual fees because of increased administrative costs. ”The figures we reached are not grotesque and council will continue looking at better models of financing its business so as to alleviate the burden on practitioners,” said Council Registrar Boyce Mkhize.
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/ 18 February 2008
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday described abuse of Lewis Hamilton in Spain as an ”isolated incident” and said the sport did not need an anti-racism campaign. ”What it does, all of these things, it gives attention to the people that want attention,” the Briton added.
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/ 18 February 2008
Freezing weather has again swept through southern China, leaving 180 000 people stranded and causing power failures, just as the region was recovering from the last cold snap. The cold weather has taken a toll in mountainous Yunnan province, where heavy snowfalls since Thursday have caused huge problems.
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/ 18 February 2008
The Democratic Alliance (DA) was making a mockery of Parliament, the African National Congress charged on Sunday. This, after public protector Lawrence Mushwana recommended Parliamentary action against DA MP Mike Waters. Waters complained last year that President Thabo Mbeki had abused his office by demanding that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang get priority on a organ-transplant list.
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/ 18 February 2008
A Chinese contractor has won bids to build two railways in Libya worth a combined $2,6-billion as China enhances its economic presence in energy-rich African nations. Under one contract, China Railway Construction, the firm that built part of the railway to Tibet, would construct a 352km west-to-east coastal railway.
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/ 18 February 2008
Fears of violence overshadowed Pakistan’s general election on Monday with 80Â 000 troops backing up police to watch over a vote that could return a Parliament set on driving President Pervez Musharraf from office. Musharraf has lost much popularity over the past year because of his manoeuvres to hold on to power which included a clash with the judiciary.
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/ 18 February 2008
In Ekurhuleni, Sibongile* supports three young children while clutching at a safety net of informally occupied land. After losing her employment as a domestic worker and the accommodation that came with it, she needed to keep a foothold in the city. Like most people in the Somalia informal settlement she is acutely aware of how tenuous her claim to the land is, but says: "It’s life, I borrowed it."
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/ 18 February 2008
This column is in response to the Collect-a-Can article published in the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on February 8. As managing director of Collect-a-Can, I would like to provide clarification, facts and a balanced view. Collect-a-Can is the longest existing and most successful one-way packaging recycling company, writes Funani Mojono
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/ 18 February 2008
The enterprises division in Eskom was responsible for the processes that culminated in the award of the tenders to which you refer in “Moosa in R38-billion tender conflict”. The innuendo that this process was in some way flawed or subject to political influence is totally unfounded, writes Brian A Dames.
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/ 17 February 2008
Pity the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). Fifteen years ago this court — then led by the chief justice — was the highest court of appeal in South Africa. The prestige and standing of the judges serving on this court were unchallenged among the majority of influential South African lawyers and judges, and academics pored over their decisions and wrote learned articles about their decisions.