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/ 7 February 2008
According to a <i>Finweek</i> report last week, South African education is in crisis mode.
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/ 7 February 2008
Human rights issues concerning refugees, immigrants and exiles needed urgent discussion and action at all three levels of government, experts said on Thursday during a panel discussion at the University of the Witwatersrand. The discussion dealt with the Central Methodist Church raid in Johannesburg as well as the country’s immigration policy.
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/ 7 February 2008
Lawyers for the Citizen newspaper will appeal against a Johannesburg High Court order that the newspaper has to pay Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride R200 000 in a defamation claim. ”We are definitely going to appeal,” the newspaper’s acting editor, Martin Williams, said.
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/ 7 February 2008
Liliesleaf Farm in Rivionia, north of Johannesburg, will reopen in June 2008 for people wanting to tour the former secret headquarters of the African National Congress’s Umkhonto we Sizwe. The farm was purchased in 1961 by the South African Communist Party, according to the Liliesleaf Trust.
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/ 7 February 2008
In an incident recalling the birth of a baby in a tree during floods in 2000, a woman in Mozambique was rescued after giving birth to triplets on a flooded islet in the Zambezi River. Maria Jose (37) was rescued by emergency services on January 30 from a small island in the Zambezi around Mutarara district.
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/ 7 February 2008
Egypt’s Foreign Minister said that no further violations of its borders would be tolerated in the wake of a 12-day breach on its frontier with Gaza and said anyone daring to cross would have their legs broken. The assertive remarks by Ahmed Aboul Gheit came during a late night interview on state television.
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/ 7 February 2008
South Africa’s Parliament on Thursday approved legal changes to make abortions easier to obtain, despite criticism from opponents who said the law was already too lax. The changes will provide for 24-hour abortion facilities, do away with pre-approval procedures and permit all nurses — instead of just midwives — to terminate pregnancies.
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/ 7 February 2008
At least 29 people were killed and 16 others injured in a multi-vehicle road crash on a highway outside the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Thursday, with fog the probable cause, security sources said. Reckless driving, lax traffic rules and poor road conditions contribute to many road crashes in Egypt.
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/ 7 February 2008
Pakistani police have arrested two more suspects in connection with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the interior minister said on Thursday. Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack on December 27 as she was coming out of an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.
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/ 7 February 2008
While it was designed to cut costs and reduce bureaucracy, a new video-conference facility launched in Parliament on Thursday gave MPs the chance to see what their colleagues in the provinces look like. National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete hoped the project would one day link the government to rural areas.