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/ 26 October 2007
The trouble with helping street children is that the problem sometimes looks like a bottomless pit that eats resources, but never seems to deliver any results. Yet, as the problem escalates on the streets of Johannesburg, the option of simply not helping does not exist.
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/ 26 October 2007
The only green reference in the budget was Finance Minister Trevor Manuel bemoaning the fact that it did not contain a pro-environment stance. He indicated that he was looking for his colleagues in the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to play the lead role and promised that the next Budget would include a green component.
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/ 26 October 2007
Most magazines on the market offer either business insight or lifestyle information. The new women’s magazine, <i>Destiny</i>, attempts to combine both. Founding editor Khanyi Dhlomo, who previously edited <i>True Love</i> magazine, said she explored several ideas while doing an MBA at Harvard.
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/ 26 October 2007
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South Africa confronts a central political dilemma: how to advance redress to deal with historical injustice while simultaneously building a single national cosmopolitan identity. This is the defining element of the national question. Attempts were made to grapple with this issue at the ANC’s national general council meeting in 2005 and the party’s policy conference last year, but the outcomes were unsatisfactory on both occasions.
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/ 26 October 2007
Saeed Jalili, who replaced Ali Larijani as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator at the weekend, is a man of strong moral views who believes spiritual values should inform political actions. His absolute conviction of the rightness of Iran’s cause, and his loyalty to his old friend, Iran’s hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may make him an awkward interlocutor in nuclear talks with the European Union in Rome.
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/ 25 October 2007
An independent mediator has been appointed to facilitate talks between students and management at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), its Student Representative Council (SRC) said on Thursday, The Department of Education had on Monday appointed mediator Onkgopotse Tabane, said SRC president Mhlobo Hoyi.
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/ 25 October 2007
Entertainer Taliep Petersen and his wife, Najwa, were involved in dodgy diamond and currency deals, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday. One of these deals was in progress on the night he died, according to an affidavit handed in as evidence in Najwa’s second bail application.
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/ 25 October 2007
Special methods are needed to combat the epidemic of drug trafficking and abuse, it was contended by the state on Thursday in the drug-trafficking case involving Nazier Kapdi and four alleged accomplices. The ”special methods” referred to a police trap set up to bring to book Kapdi and those involved with him in his network.
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/ 25 October 2007
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South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale said on Thursday he had not ruled out joining the race to head the African National Congress (ANC), a position that traditionally leads to the country’s presidency. ”I haven’t made a final decision. I am waiting for the nominations process,” he told the Cape Town Press Club.
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/ 25 October 2007
In a bizarre case of overloading, two policemen in northern KwaZulu-Natal impounded a blue Fiat Uno on Thursday that was being used to transport two cows and two goats. Police spokesperson Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said two off-duty policemen were informed by residents of the Phelindaba area near Emanguzi that they had seen a man loading a cow into the small vehicle.