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/ 26 January 2007
All eyes are on President Thabo Mbeki as he steps up to the podium at the African Union heads of state summit in Addis Ababa this weekend: will he present a whitewashed peer review report or the warts and all assessment of the panel of leading Africans who have made their own assessment?
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/ 24 January 2007
A cool new animation aims to teach teens about the environment, writes Tumi Makgetla.
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/ 24 January 2007
Tumi Makgetla speaks to the winner of the Noma Award for publishing in Africa.
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/ 22 January 2007
Clothing prices are to soar by 20% with the introduction of import quotas on January 1, retailers warn. And in response to quotas on Chinese imports, which kicked in on January 1, South African firms are scrambling to source clothes and textiles from other low-wage countries.
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/ 22 January 2007
In the past few years, South Africa’s currency has gained recognition as one of a handful of the world’s traded commodity currencies. This term applies in countries where the world commodity price of the country’s commodity exports has an important effect on their real exchange rate.
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/ 18 January 2007
Economists take several factors into consideration when trying to judge where currencies are moving. And they often get it wrong. But to give an idea of some of the factors involved in evaluating a currency for risk, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to some economists and analysts to review some of the top currencies on the market today.
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/ 15 January 2007
The government has let the applications for presidential pardons for over 1 000 people imprisoned for what they believe are political “crimes” pile up, arguing that it has no policy on how to address this ”complex” matter. But it is unclear why the government is dragging its feet now when four years ago President Thabo Mbeki justified his release of 33 prisoners.
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/ 21 December 2006
‘Within our cultures we only pick what suits us best and use it in our everyday lives — lobola is one of them," says Nandipha Mosia, a young newly wed from the West Rand. Interviews with 10 urban, black South Africans revealed the many ways in which "traditional" beliefs are transformed in a modern setting and shape attitudes to marriage.
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/ 21 December 2006
An ANC MP cited the Protocols of the Elders of Zion — the infamous anti-Semitic forgery used by the Nazis — as a credible document at a recent Iranian-sponsored academic seminar in Pretoria. Farida Mahomed agreed recently she had asked a Jewish seminar delegate, Claudia Braude: “Are the protocols still relevant to you in today’s time?
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/ 12 December 2006
Maintenance backlogs have dragged South Africa’s infrastructure grade down to a D, or "poor", in the first report card of the country’s built environment infrastructure, released by the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) recently.