Staff Reporter
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/ 12 February 2008

Not going all the way

Giving a voice to young people is one of the aims of the Youth Policy Initiative (YPI), a project led by the Human Sciences Research Council in partnership with the youth sector, key government departments, non-governmental organisations and the media.

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/ 12 February 2008

Beating the money blues

The start of every year is an exciting time, allowing us to consider new opportunities and focus on the challenges ahead. But for many South Africans it is also a period of pain as consumers recover from the festive season’s spending spree.

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/ 12 February 2008

Drug-resistant TB. The new scourge

In December last year the public’s attention was drawn to the threat posed to society by resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) when 49 patients infected with deadly and highly infectious strains of drug-resistant TB escaped from Jose Pearson Hospital near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Their escape made national headlines and highlighted again the need for swift and effective medical care.

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/ 12 February 2008

ECD remains neglected

The department of education is dragging its feet in tackling the massive backlog in the early childhood development (ECD) field which was inherited from the apartheid government, according to experts and practitioners in the sector.

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/ 11 February 2008

Pharmaceutical companies accused of collusion

The Competition Commission has referred three pharmaceutical companies to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution after they were found to be colluding when bidding for government tenders, it said on Monday. ”Collusive behaviour would undoubtedly be one of the contributing factors to higher prices in healthcare,” said competition commissioner Shan Ramburuth.